Crankster
This is the first time I've read the post since yesterday and I feel I need to put a few things straight.
First of all, if you'd said in the first place people were dying all around you, I may not have been as quick to make the remark I did - however if you'd made it clear you left uni for that reason and not because, as you put it "didn't want to become a shrink" then maybe I'd have been more sympathetic.
Secondly, the degree thing. Why do airlines like 'em? (A) It shows that you have the ability to go out there and gain an education at a very independent level - therefore it can suggest a good level of determination and motivation. (B) It also shows that you can take your learning to a much broader level, i.e (you are someone who is quite intellectually malleable??)
To say that you "would never utilise" your degree is a load of rubbish. At which point do you think I would use my web design skills if I was flying a 737? It's not about what you've learned, it's about how you learn.
As mentioned above, the best thing you can do is get back on the motivation ladder and get back into some education programme whether it be A-levels, degree whatever. An airline would find this impressive - i.e. a guy that initially dropped everything but then picked themselves up and had another go (and was successful??)
Oh yeah, and, I had an IQ test at uni and scored 133. Can't see why ??!!!