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I guess I could add 2 things here, though at 42 I think I am still far too young to be giving "life advice"...
1. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a trade; my Dad was deadset against us taking any trade (he did and regretted not going to University his whole life though he does pretty well). I'm on the fence, and I've done ok with my Business degree but if my kid asks me I will definitely not steer him one way or the other. Trades are absolutely booming up here in Alberta, Canada right now. DO stay away from Liberal Arts Bullshit or dumb ass stuff like adventure tourism management in college. Technical is the way to go, if you can do it.
2. Not to sound too ominous, but what you do today DOES matter down the road. Want to get drunk most of the time and get shitty marks in college...down the road they use those grades to let you into MBA school. Want to tell your boss to bugger off...down the road you have to explain why you left that job in your next interview. Get all messed up in debt and make late payments on your cards etc. ..down the road your credit sucks and it's tough to get a house etc. These 3 were tough lessons for me to learn.
Good luck & don't sweat it too much at your young age. Grade 10 is too young to know 100% what to do with your life.
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Try thinking of what your best skills are and how you can apply them to something you are passionate about. Then just start looking at different degrees that are available and what jobs they can apply to. Collegeboard.com was really helpful for me in doing this, but I don't know if they have much information about schools in Canada. If you can come up with a few broad ideas of what you're interested in and feel you would be good at you can really narrow it down over time. Personally, I knew I was good at writing and I wanted to work in the motocross industry when I was in 10th grade, but I didn't know what I could do with that. I just made sure I maintained my grades, explored different options, and over the next two years I narrowed down my options. I chose a school that had several degrees that interested me and now I'm a junior majoring in public relations (which is a growing field fyi) and advertising and it feels like a perfect fit. We start with major-specific classes right away at my school, which I really liked because I didn't have to wait around for two years to decide if I liked my program or not. Just keep your grades up, spend some time reasearching jobs you might not know much about, and realize you can always change your mind if you start working toward a career that you realize isn't really for you. You've got a lot of time to figure it out!
Problem is, Indians, Chinese, Russians, can do it at a 3rd the cost or less. I'm in that business and have enjoyed it at its peak, but unless things change it isn't a path I would suggest to my kids today.
France for example has (had?) a very elitist school system. In the mid 70's you had to decide right when entering high school if you were going for a math, math and science, literary, or trade . Once in that path it was pretty much impossible to change mid way. And forget trying to get into the top engineering schools without the math path and a year of prep school.
Contrast that with the US system where you could in theory skip high school, get a GED diploma, take a couple of semesters at a community college to build some grade history, and then go on to a decent university.
I, on the other hand, got excellent grades in high school and excellent test scores and then sucked in college because I was only there to please my parents and had no clue what I wanted to do in the future. What I wanted to do in the present was go ride mountain bikes and not go to class. If I had better undergrad scores I could be pursuing anything in graduate school right now, but instead I am starting over another undergrad degree, which I'll tell you is a lot more loaded the second time around. So even if you don't know where you're going, keep working hard, if you do well it wont matter what you're specific course of study was, it will make it way easier to transition to something else.
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