My last post I spoke about the reasons I regretted quitting my degree. This one I will speak about the reasons I don’t regret quitting.
During my whole degree I was purely focused on one goal. Getting into Cyber Security by getting a Computer Science degree and then a job afterwards. Since quitting my degree I’ve flirted with other opportunities. WordPress Development, .Net development with C# and even moving away from tech all together. I think if I’d have stayed at my degree, I would have still been focused on getting into Cyber Security, which looking back was too narrow minded of me.
Another reason I don’t regret quitting my degree is if I had stayed with my degree, I don’t think I would be doing the voluntary work I am currently doing. Working in the voluntary sector is hugely rewarding and something I would encourage anyone with the time to do, even if its just an hour a week. I doubt I would have bothered looking at volunteering opportunities if I was still in education.
The final reason I don’t regret quitting my degree is the fact that at the end of the day, I had little choice. I suffer with some health issues and for the last year of my degree they were hell to deal with. I tried to power through, but I just couldn’t do it. Ultimately it was to protect my health I quit, and my health has to come first. For this reason, I don’t regret quitting my degree.
So on balance do I regret quitting my degree, taking these last two posts into account? The answer is no. I regret missing out on some opportunities and miss the relationship with my lecturers but all in all it was the right decision, when all factors were taken into consideration.