THIS week is a big week for year 12 students around the country.

VCE results typify what they are all about and what they’re heading towards next season.

It may be just a number, but that number or score can become pivotal to your future dreams.

A lot of students are left shattered this time of year; depressed and looking for somewhere else to go after not getting a high enough score to get into their chosen university course.

There are ways around it for those lost dreams however.

Doing a TAFE course on the same subject and performing well at that gives you an enormous chance of getting into university in the next year.

If you have a dream and there are some obstacles, don’t just drop it and take it as a failure.

Take it as a challenge to perform and grab it with both hands.

It really does depend on how much you want to become that doctor, lawyer, physiotherapist, journalist, public relations assistant, business manager, architect, nurse – the list goes on.

The worst people in the world are the ones that just give up and don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.

These people end up in jobs they don’t like and simply go to work to earn money each day with little satisfaction.

Do you want to become one of these?