Shrimpsvoices

Anyone on this board actually doing a job
the careers officer at school said you'd do?.

I'm bloody not

I'm not. As I am the Careers Advisor at school.
What are the chances of that happening!!!

Not me

I never got told what I'd be!

Or maybe they didn't want to tell me I'd be stacking shelves.

yep, but it's not all fun being a pimp !

yeah i wanted a job as a career advisor ,but they told me to be serious

Harry wrote:I never got told what I'd be!

Or maybe they didn't want to tell me I'd be stacking shelves.

They told me I'd be stacking shelves, why were you special? I think it spoke volumes for my expectations, that I was sent on work experience to Heysham Power Station to work in the warehouse, from what I recall, the most boring job out of all the ones available! Rather ironic that I worked for 12 months in the warehouse at ASDA while I worked out what I wanted to do.

I used to go in to the Job Centre most weeks. I was once asked what I was looking for in there?

I replied "inspiration"...

My carears officer sent me to Burton Garage (all them years ago) if I could meet him now

I was sent to Lancaster railway station to work in the parcels dept, i was told if I got bored I
could go into the chargemans office, which had a large kettle on a gas stove in one corner of the room and a four foot high pile of porn mags in the other corner.
It was indeed an education into the workings of a busy transport hub and helped me aquire many skills I needed later as an Industrial Chemist, such as wasting apprentices time, by sending them to the stores to ask for 10 kilos of Sodium Fornicate.

I was told I'd go a long way in life.
I'm still travelling.

Peter

Keith wrote:I think it spoke volumes for my expectations, that I was sent on work experience to Heysham Power Station to work in the warehouse, from what I recall, the most boring job out of all the ones available!

To calrify...

I think it spoke volumes for their expectations of me...

...from what I recall, the most boring job out of all the ones available and not my first or second choice. In fact, I don't think it was my choice at all!

God I hated school soooooooo much! Ironic that my first job after I qualified was working on a psychiatric unit for kids. We had "school refusers" who skived off less than I had! It became my job to support them in returning to full time education! I've got mates who still joke about the time I climbed out of the classroom window and went off... ...while the lesson was still going on! Apparently it was 20 minutes before the teacher noticed I'd gone! Ahh, Morecambe High... what a pile of poo!

Keith wrote:[Ahh, Morecambe High... what a pile of poo!

Steady!

shrimper wrote:

Keith wrote:Ahh, Morecambe High... what a pile of poo!

Steady!

That was me being steady... I wanted to say...

Ahh, Morecambe High... what a great big, steaming, smelly, useless...







pile of poo!

I was told by my careers officer back in 1966 that I had no clerical aptitude whatsoever. Funny how I have been earning a living for past too many years to remember as a writer/author!

I remember the career's teacher couldnt find anything I wanted to do so I went on work experiance working for my dad, oh the joys, he let me have the afternoons off and even took me on holiday to the isle of man during the last week of work experience