My future in your hands

tony

Rite i have a problem/dilemma
I love web design - i applied to study web and multimedia which i start on the 28th at uni, BUT i joined the gym 3 months ago and love it and really am thinkin about trying to become personal trainer.

So i have to decide on doing something ive planned on doing for the last 4 years with more money and something i enjoy or something i decided i love 3 months ago with les smoney, but i cant decide so you lucky people get to help me

There is 1 problem im not exactly sure how i get into becoming a personal trainer as in school i used to wag PE and never even thought about this until the other week,

ayway thanks for any help
Tony

tntcheats

I think you need to take a course for becoming a personal trainer.

Just evaluate each, and brainstorm which you'd enjoy better if you can't have both.

SEbasic

I'm biased.

Personally, I think that if you like going to the gym, them you can keep doing it in your spare time...

I do.

I love Web Dev too much to give it up.

tony

i would need to take a course to become a personal trainer

the thing with both of these occupations is that they can both be hobbies or jobs, which si where the problem is, if only 1 could be a hobby then id have no problem deciding

pfgannon

cant you do web design (freelance) and be a personal trainer?

daboss

Tony, I speak from experience (both personal and what I've seen around me - friends, colleagues and relatives):

When you're young (I believe you're 20) life's a breeze and you feel invincible. You do the things you want to do. You are anti-establishment. When advice is given, you feel that your life is being dictated.

Life's not that easy when you have a family and a mortgage to pay. Money and respect becomes way, way, way more important later in life.

What I suggest is that you get a degree that will make you unique - a career that not any tom, **** and harry can jump into. Example - any person can just take up a course and become a personal trainer - whether a good one or a bad one is a different story. Not everyone can become a lawyer, doctor or engineer without having gone through the proper school.

I have 2 close friends - one who did a not so 'unique' doctorate in Cambridge and the other one read accountancy in a small unknown University. The accountant's working in a European bank earning almost 3 times as much as the other. At our age, this matters.

CannonBallGuy

I agree with bimmer... But also try to think of the pros and cons of each...

Is it not possible to do a course on both?
You'll ahve very little spare time, but if yuor doing 2 courses on the things you love most, then live should be fun anyway.

that way you have time to find out what you really want to do and with any luck, will always have the qualificatioins to fall back on in the future!

Good luck!!

tony

well i could possibly do both as the personal trainer course is an NVQ and is don in your own time anyway but like i said you would have to work aswel
so doing my HND/Degree in web design, an NVQ in health and fitnes and working, i wouldnt have ANY time, and then theres the cost id be in a lot of debt by the time i finished, which defeats the object,

non of these jobs are particulaly high paid (with the odd exception like trainer tot he rich and famous, or designing/building sites for huge companies) but web design is slghtly more at the moment

i was tempted to give this web design course a go for a year if i like it stick with it, if i dont then i can always quit and do a course in health and fitness and i will only be 20/21- then about 22/23 when i finish it, and id still be able to design some sites as id have already been taught some java and asp.

CannonBallGuy

If you ask me...
You can learn an awful lot about web dev online, without going to a course.
Thats how I know all the HTML CSS and the PHP basics taht I do. I just read tutorials...
So you could do the fitness course and learn web dev at home as much or as little as you like or can afford to.
Then, whatever career you decide to take your safe.
With the Gym stuff, you have the qualification, with the web dev, you will know lots and can continue learning while you work.
And most people won't ask if you have qualifications for web dev anyway.

Hope I helped

daboss

Ask yourself this question:

1. How much does a reasonably successful gym instructor make after he's been at it for 10 years?
2. The same question for a web designer/graphic artist?

From what I gather, you like both - so that needn't be factored in.