Careers advice from Dave Grohl, five choices, and falling in love with life.
Photo by Lindsay from Pittsburgh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
😊 Welcome
In this week’s newsletter we take careers advice from Dave Grohl, discuss your five UCAS choices, and hear some wisdom about how to love life.
✍️ Careers Advice from Dave Grohl
Yep, I’m talking about Dave Grohl, him from Foo Fighters.
Undeniably successful, he is a talented musician who excelled at his chosen skill, worked very hard, got some lucky breaks and went on to be about as successful as a rock musician could possibly hope for.
Just in case you don’t know, he founded Foo Fighters nearly thirty years ago, as their frontman, guitarist and principal songwriter. With them he has won 15 Grammy Awards and sold countless millions of records.
Before that he was one third of Nirvana, alongside Curt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Nirvana transformed music in the early 90s, and their album Nevermind and single Smells Like Teen Spirit remain some of the most popular and enduring records of all time.
All the while he is pretty much universally acknowledged as being one of the most generous, kindest and nicest people in the music industry.
Perhaps one of the reasons Dave Grohl is known as such a down-to-earth, genuine guy is because…
💡 Did You Know?
When you apply through UCAS, you have five choices.
They could be the same course at five different universities. They could be five different courses at the same university. Or they could be a combination of these.
One or two of these can be pretty aspirational; perhaps with higher entry grades than you are confident of achieving.
Two or three should be realistic; courses that you are confident you can get into.
And at least one should be your safety choice; a course with entry grades that you know you can achieve, even on a bad day!
However you choose, make sure each choice is genuine. All five should be courses at a university that you would really go to if you got a place.
📢 Quote of the week
“Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.”
Peter Hagerty, photographer, writer and metaverse creator
Study can be like this too. If you can fall in love with learning, with the process of finding out new things and applying these to your life, you’ll never be bored with study!
Thanks for reading!
Jonathan
📅 Next week: What exactly are super-curricular activities, and why should I be bothered?
