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Year 12 work experience. Help me find a suitable career for my DS!

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LynetteScavo · 05/11/2015 20:06

He studying Geography, Physics and Maths. He dropped Chemistry because he didn't understand it (Much to my and his teachers surprise.) He has Apsergers but you really, really couldn't tell unless he got very stressed

He has No idea what he wants to do with his life. He did his Y10 work experience in a local bike shop. He was a great hit. They showed him how to build a bike, then asked him to build one. They thought it would take him ages to figure out how. He did it perfectly, very quickly. He has that sort of mind. (If you've seen Forrest Gump, when Forrest puts together the gun, DS is a bit like thatputting together a bike).

He says he's going to the local music store. It's the worlds smallest shop, with only the owner working there. DS thinks it will be fine for one week. I've pointed out he probably wouldn't want to spend the rest of his life in a music shop, and he agrees. He has taught himself guitar, but I can't see him in a music shop for more than a week.

He'd really like to be a meteorologist atm. He's struggling to find work experience related to this despite much Googling. He's very much in to saving the planet and climate change. Any advice at all would be much appreciated!

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annandale · 05/11/2015 20:13

Oh I'm really sorry I missed the meteorology bit! He might as well ring university meteorology depts and see if they offer any work experience placements? Local radio weather depts?

annandale · 05/11/2015 20:12

My main thoughts are that it is fantastic he has sorted out his own work experience, what a star.

Secondly that I don't think work experience is really about careers, it's about experience of the workplace. At a small shop he should get a good range of tasks and I think it's a good call.

As far as careers go, would he consider civil engineering? He sounds like am amazing fit for it (caveat: I'm not a civil engineer.)