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Sorry about the slow reply friend. I completely forgot I posted this.

Thankyou for the great advice. I've taken it in aswell as talking to a careers advisor at my old school. I think a gap year will help me decide which career path i want to follow. (eg going to Japan for a long holiday to see if I enjoy yhe culture enough to devote my career to teaching it) Money for university isn't a problem, as the government here will pay for it and will not make me pay the money back until I have a job where I'm earning over $50,000/year.

I'm still very un-decisive when it comes to what i want to study. I get my exam results back in a week which will give me a guideline on what I can and can't study. (ie not scoring high enough marks). Teaching Japanese may not be my number one passion, but it is a realistic career I can see myself enjoying. I made great friends with some of my teachers and the majority of them seemed to enjoy their career as they were in subjects they enjoyed. I loved studying Japanese in highschool so maybe continuing my studies and teaching Japanese here in Australia would be a good idea for me. The problem is it's a salary state-wide. I'm not sure how well I'll be able to live on that amount of money. But then it is something I enjoy..

Another option was psychology. It interests me a lot but the course seems very rigorous and the outcome isn't guaranteed.

Just some thoughts.