This First Year student was not doing well in exams. He was not enjoying his university experience.
“I don’t think College is for me. I think I should have started working straight after my Leaving Cert”
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The 19 year old girl had spent 3 months in College in First Year. In her first assessment she had failed all of her subjects. Her Mother contacted our office saying:
“She does not seem to be getting on very well. Could you help with her motivation?”
He is really down. He feels that all his friends know what they are doing and he is the only one that is failing.” The Mother of a 20 year old young man in University explained.
This student had started a Science degree. He failed his First Year, but passed the repeats. Now at the start of Third Year, he really feels he is doing the wrong thing and that he has totally wasted nearly three years. He told the counsellor that he finds it really hard to go to lectures as he is not doing well and has no clear idea of where he is going.
This 5th year student declared that she felt totally confused around her career
“I think I am interested in everything! Whenever I hear about any career I think: ‘Oh yeah, I would love to do that!’ How am I ever going to choose just one career?”
This 18 year old was a 6th year student. She had been a straight ‘A’ student all through school. While that was wonderful on an academic level, it presented a challenge on the career level. Her Mum explained her position very clearly:
The first time the Career Guidance Counsellor clapped eyes on this 16year old, 4th year boy, it was very obvious that he would have far preferred to have been elsewhere!
“I have to spend all day in school, do 3 hours study a night on 7 subjects, make sure I get loads of points and yet I am asked to trawl through thousands of careers, fill out forms, do a career project and decide what I am going to do when I leave school! I just don’t have time for all this career stuff!!”
The 66 year old man traveled a long distance to come to our meeting. He explained that he had retired the previous year and, since the house had been totally repainted, the garden perfect and the dog walked to the point of sheer exhaustion – he was looking for something else to do. The client Continue Reading
At 42 this client held a senior position in a Multinational company. He was offered a position on the Board. This was a major promotion and meant a large increase in salary. On reading his CV this client seemed the perfect person for the job; he was an expert in his area with excellent experience and qualifications. So what was the problem? Why was he here? “I don’t know.
This 39 year old Mother explained that she had been at home for 15 years. Her children were now older. She was thinking of doing something outside her home. However, once she began to think of taking up any sort of job outside the home, her confidence deserted her completely.
Richard Cox, April Smith &
Sara Anderson
More than 20 years of experiance
