I’m currently in the final year of an economics degree at the University of Bristol, but I began studying economics at A-level. I was lucky to have a very encouraging and inspiring teacher, but it still took me some time to decide that I wanted to study economics at university. It wasn’t until I had finished my A-levels that I felt ready to make a decision, so I took a year off after finishing school. When I started university the following year, I felt reinvigorated and really looked forward to getting back into education.
When I tell people I study economics, I’m often asked ‘so you’re just interested in money, then?’ It’s a common misconception that economics is the study of money and that economics students just want to work in the City. Some economics students do use their degrees as a means to get into banking and investment. This is understandable — economics courses often give you the chance to study a lot of finance, accounting and management modules if you want to. But it’s the economics modules that really interest me, and these encompass much more than just money. Economics can explain the incentives and behaviour of individuals, firms, markets and governments, so you can apply what you learn to almost anything.
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