Yes I do unfortunately have a problem with putting myself down a lot. It's a bad habit 
Is it alright to upgrade my wallet without it being fully synced. I think it would take a very long time to fully sync. When I paste my transaction ID onto a blockchain website it says that it can't be found. Is that a big problem?
Is it alright to upgrade my wallet without it being fully synced. I think it would take a very long time to fully sync. When I paste my transaction ID onto a blockchain website it says that it can't be found. Is that a big problem?That probably means your wallet created a type of transaction the network will no longer accept.
Have you backed up your wallet.dat yet because that's the most important thing you need to do to secure your coins.
If you are using windows try using these instructions to back it up.
Click the windows start button, then copy and paste the line of text below into the search box that appears, then press the enter key to open the hidden folder containing your Bitcoin wallet.dat file.
%appdata%\Bitcoin
This is what your search box should look like after you have copied and pasted the line above into it.
Inside the folder that opens there should be a file called wallet that ends with the extension ".dat".
Make a back up of that file.
Afterwards you could use these instructions to use the electrum wallet if you don't want to upgrade your bitcoin qt or wait for it to sync.
If you don't want to wait you can use these instructions for switching to using an electrum wallet. Electrum syncs almost immediately and lets you spend your coins almost immediately. Bitcoin core can take days to sync.
Click file, then receiving addresses. Find the address you sent coins to in the window that opens, right click it, and select copy address. Close the addresses window.
Click help, then debug window.
In the debug window that opens click console.
In the text box at the bottom of the window type
dumpprivkey yourAddress
where yourAddress is the address you sent coins to and copied earlier.
Press your enter key.
The private key for that address should appear in the console window. Copy it.
This is an example private key.
L48toSntMVhC2az4KAQCWscrQGfPbT55yCgzM5cmx9Ao69pTdwrq
Download and install electrum.
https://electrum.org/#download
Import your private key into it using these instructions.
http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients
Afterwards your coins should be spendable.
Click help, then debug window.
In the debug window that opens click console.
In the text box at the bottom of the window type
dumpprivkey yourAddress
where yourAddress is the address you sent coins to and copied earlier.
Press your enter key.
The private key for that address should appear in the console window. Copy it.
This is an example private key.
L48toSntMVhC2az4KAQCWscrQGfPbT55yCgzM5cmx9Ao69pTdwrq
Download and install electrum.
https://electrum.org/#download
Import your private key into it using these instructions.
http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients
Afterwards your coins should be spendable.
