I want this more than life...

It's coming up to a year since I dropped out of university, moved back home and got a job.

At the time I intended to go back to college and do some more exams so that I could go to university to do a course that I wanted to. This idea got thrown out of the window in September last year. Then I started to feel a bit lost. I needed something to do, something to cling onto, something to be passionate about, something that was just mine.

I started looking at evening classess for inspiration. I saw a course in jewellery making and something about it just caught my imagination. It didn't start for months and I couldn't wait. So i spent an absolute bomb on all the things I needed. At the time I thought "this could be a complete waste of money" but it wasn't.

I found something I was good at by chance and it felt amazing. I wondered if it was a phase and that I'd be over it in a month, but I'm still making things now. The buzz I got the first time I made something was incredible, and I still get that now.

I've been stopped by strangers to ask me where I got my jewellery and they look stunned when I tell them I made it. Nothing can wipe the smile off my face for like a week after that. Then they ask where they can buy it from. I hate having to say that I don't sell my stuff.

I'm doing a degree in business with the Open University. I figure it'll come in useful when I've set up my business. I hope I get there. I really do.