Your past doesn't have to determine your future.
My parents denied me the chance of an education because, and I quote 'you're only a girl, girls don't need an education' I had been offered a place at a good school and they wouldn't let me go, because they didn't want to pay the bus fare. I ended up in an awful school where I was bullied constantly, followed by a series of dead end jobs.
Then I became seriously ill in my 20s and was told I'd never be able to work again and would be in a wheelchair for life at some point. It has been a hard battle, but I've managed to stay out of a wheelchair., I own my own company that enables me to work from home and when I was 50 I started an MSc IT course. I decided I wanted to get the education I had missed out on and contacted the Liverpool University and told them why I wanted to do the MSc course (even though the prerequisite was an honours degree, which I didn't have).
They interviewed me, contacted my clients and looked at the work I'd been doing during the previous 10 years in my business, plus they got my transcripts from the Open University (I had tried to get an education years earlier, but had to stop half way through my third year due to not being able to cope with children, studying and my illness).
They let me take the course and even gave me a partial scholarship. I graduated with my MSc IT in 2010. I am nearly 60 now and I'm thinking of taking up the cello.
You don't have to make your past your future too. You can decide how your future turns out, you just have to fight for it.
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