Where did you work for work experience whilst at Secondary school?

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Concept

My family will be going on holiday I think, but my mum says I should stay at home if I get the chance to work. Im not sure yet, depends if they decide to go somewhere nice or if they go camping in a depressing, wet valley in Wales somewhere lol.

Im with your mum... if you get a job, sacrifice the fun, as getting a job in the current market ain't an easy thing.

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Snookercraze

Im with your mum... if you get a job, sacrifice the fun, as getting a job in the current market ain't an easy thing.

Oh yeah, well Im with your mum.

Oh :o:

Yeah, the guy told me to ring him tommorow so once we've arranged dates, Ill try and find more work for the rest of the holidays.

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Snookercraze

Concept

Oh yeah, well Im with your mum.

Oh :o:

Yeah, the guy told me to ring him tommorow so once we've arranged dates, Ill try and find more work for the rest of the holidays.

Really funny.

Anyway, good luck mate. Hope you get the work for the summer.

Thanks for the +rep by the way. Really appreciated. :smile:

Reply 83

natty_d

In a school library, the week after book week.... I nearly shot myself.. :nah:

Reply 84

emmers1990

In a nursery/pre-school. It was alright, I just got to play with toys all day and sand.

Reply 85

sweet-likkle-chick

a week at a tax firm
lots of lovely numbers!
(that week definately put me off being an accountant in such a small firm :frown:

)

Reply 86

Doublereedfreak

psychocustard

And then a week with my bassoon teacher visiting loads of schools and teaching kids how to play instruments :biggrin:

I did exactly the same :biggrin:

Bassoon teacher as well.

Reply 87

h82think

2 weeks at Claire's Accessories :smile:

My friend spent 2 weeks at London Zoo :biggrin:

Reply 88

blahhh

A week at a small animal vets
A week on a farm
A week at a mixed animal vets
....and a week with cattle artificial inseminators :biggrin:

Reply 89

meenu89

two weeks at a local computer repair shop

Reply 90

CatatonicStupor

First time round - my old primary school. Put me off teaching kids under the age of 11. Little ******.

Year 12 - a week in an indie mag in Cardiff. Oft. Free Promo CDs from Travis, Feist, and so on, and I out-indie'd the music editor by telling him he should put tickets for an upcoming Wombats gig down as the music quiz's prize that month (it was either them or Winnebago Deal, and I figured everyone knew Winnebago Deal, considering this was like February 2007.) Good times. ^__^

Reply 91

M_J

A week at Spar. oh joy.
Had great hours though (i.e very few)
and got paid at the end :].. £40..

Reply 92

OhNO!

I've done work experience at a nursery, on a local weekly magazine, and at a local art gallery. I organized them myself though, my school thought work experience was a completely extra-curricular thing.

Reply 93

noisesandkisses

i worked at portasilo!

Reply 94

jazstar19

I did a week at Thomas Cook, which was the most boring week of my life. All I did was watch people at a computer and then occasionally got to stick stamps on envelopes. They eventually sent me home at lunchtime on the last day because they didn't have anything for me to do...

Reply 95

eeriikaa

Year 10 was in the music department of another local secondary school. Not as much fun as I thought, tbh.. spent some of my days in the art dept instead xD

Year 12 was at a post-production company that dealt with editing footage in Soho.
..And no, not those kinds of footage ==;

Reply 96

Singhz

2 weeks at Burtons menswears...

Reply 97

little_green

I spent 2 weeks at a Shire Horse Centre. It was really good but pretty tiring. They paid me £90 at the end as well :smile:

Reply 98

easy_lemon

I worked as a legal clerk for 2 weeks, started off in the family law section and shuffled through civil law to insolvency law.

Was quite a fun job, go to shadow some barristers, meet the judges and sit through client interviews etc though I didn't like that I had to write eviction notices to people from the court, particularly when I realised that some of these people lived down the road from me... :confused:

Funnily enough I did this placement around 3 years before I ever wanted to study law lol

Reply 99

timelordess

I did a work shadowing thing at a county court. The day I was in there was a guy on trial for child pornography. I wasn't allowed to look at the evidence because I was too young, but my friend's mum, who was the judge at it, apparently had to rifle through it all. :s-smilie: