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I think you're dreaming if you expect to find work in the UK in the current economic situation, with no experience and at your age. You'd be better off staying in education at the moment and improving your skills and knowledge.
I think you're dreaming if you expect to find work in the UK in the current economic situation, with no experience and at your age. You'd be better off staying in education at the moment and improving your skills and knowledge.
I agree, plus the price you will pay for accommodation and food and bus fares etc is going to eat into your money so fast.
Get some education and experience behind you and then plan things out properly.
I know you think you can do this - but it's really not that easy!
Another alternative would be to head somewhere on a work and travel kind of program, and just do whatever kind of jobs pay the bills while perhaps teaching yourself more programming. Programming is obviously something you can learn without going to school if you posses enough discipline and desire, but until you are skilled enough it will be difficult to get a solid job in that field. Of course with some skills in that department getting a job is not too difficult anywhere. Actionscript isn't what I'd be focusing on though. Better to learn something where there is HUGE demand, like how to build apps for the iPhone/iPad
Aside from that, the general idea of what you want to do (move to another country and cut all ties with the motherland) is perfectly possible. I've moved country several times, though I've always had a good reason for doing so (and I haven't had any desire to cut ties with my 'former life').
If you were to do it you would need to be prepared to take any job to start with - bar work, shop work, work on a building site, whatever. It is hard to find work in the UK but not impossible if you are determined, persistent, flexible and enthusiastic. It is going to be very difficult for you to find programming work straight away though as your skills are too limited. It would certainly help if you had some experience working in a shop or behind a bar or something already from Lithuania, so I would try to do this now (if you haven't already). Once you have a basic job you can afford to pay for food and somewhere to live, and maybe courses and/or books and software to get up to the standard that you need to get a first programming job. If you're prepared to live in a room in a shared house and live very cheaply the money you've saved will give you about 4-6 months of space to find a job of some sort. Or maybe 8 months if you stopped smoking, cigarettes are expensive (heading towards £8 for a pack of 20 soon).
Your second choice B is a good one, but for now forget about the UK or anyother place, save more money, finish your education, get your programming down, and yes, get a more mature understanding of life. You have your whole life ahead of you, you can make good or bad choices, start investigating the world and places you might like to live. You can't do this in a day, a week a month or a year, take your time and fully explore the pros and cons of where you want to go in this world of ours, then take the giant leap forward.
I've been thinking about this a fair bit, and I think go for choice A. You've saved loads of money and you're going to go nuts if you stay in Lithuania for another 4 years. What's the worst that can happen? You waste £7k, you don't get anywhere, you'll end up back in Lithuania aged 19 or 20 following choice B anyway. So give it a whirl. It will be tough getting a job in the UK but I was walking around Brighton today and saw a few bar/shop jobs being advertised in windows. At your age you can afford to take a risk. Just do it.
As far as I understand it, the economic situation in the UK is still a mess and not that attractive especially for young people without higher education.
If you want to just leave and work in an English language environment, why not do the work travel thing in Australia? Easy to find well paid work and travel and you can see what you want to do after a year.
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