What was your work experience placement at school?

[OneUmberJoker]

It was at a local garden centre

Mine was in a Financial Consultancy. It was my first glimpse that I could never work in an office. I found it so boring! It’s not remotely related to what I’ve done since school.

Stage management at local theatre

In the preschool class at the local Nursery nurse training college. I've still got photos of the children, cant imagine that would be allowed these days!

When was work experience introduced? I didn't do it & it wasn't a thing but my kids all did.

I put i wanted to be a health care professional on the form school made you fill in (school allocated all the placements). I was put in an office of the university who allocated placements for HCP. I knew after those two weeks of franking mail that I didn't want to work in an office. So didn't help me decide on being a HCP but helped me decide what I didn't want to do!

2 weeks on a farm. I was dropped off on the monday morning and picked up 2 weeks later. Not sure that would be allowed these days!

I then did 2 weeks in a vets over the Easter hols as they were fully booked during my specified week.

I spent a long time working in the industry but don't any more

A Military marching band. We went to Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, several barracks, played with the bands, met the horses... it was fantastic.

And completely unrelated to my career plans.

I did a week at a Midland Bank, as it then was. I did all sorts of proper work, it was a good week. I was in awe of how fast the staff could count banknotes!

A fancy dress shop

A primary school. I wanted to be a teacher (and have now been one for 30 years!).

Nothing I asked for! Having failed to set up my own work experience I had to go with what the school office provided. My preferences were the local newspaper, the library and something else....can't remember exactly right now, maybe a TV studio or something completely impractical for someone living in rural Wales! Ended up in a nursery with people who seemed to genuinely hate both their jobs and children in general. Had no training, was just left to my own devices for a week. One time I got a kid out of a cot who was screaming bloody murder and was huffed at because he was meant to be settling himself to sleep. The only good thing about it was that it was only 10 minutes walk from my house! Definitely checked off a career path for me 😂

A week at our local newspaper. I do now write research stories and case studies as part of my job.

Funeral Directors - was awesome and influenced my future role.

I did two weeks at Just Seventeen. It wasn't as glamorous as I had hoped!

National music/rock magazine. No connection with what I do now.

Someone in the year above me did their work experience at a funeral directors. They were then called "The Undertaker" forever more 😅

I didn’t do it either in the 1970’s.

Two weeks at a local library. They then offered me a Saturday job then a full time job when I was 16. Loved that job!

Office assistant. I never managed to grasp faxing, so glad it was phased out as I joined the workforce!

I did it in the 1970s.

I'd asked for farm work and was instead sent to work in the canteen of a big insurance company. I remember shelling buckets of eggs and being treated like dirt by the group of really spiteful women who worked there. I can't imagine what sort of people make life miserable for a young, quiet, nervous schoolgirl.

When I eventually started work on a farm I was happy to be out in all winds and weathers, filthy, wet and cold in preference to working in that hell hole of a canteen.

I'm 58. Work experience wasn't a thing then.

One in a primary school and one at the local library. I'm now a school librarian 😆

An office dealing with car insurance claims. The most boring week of my life!

At my Edinburgh comp in the 80s we were not offered work experience. That was only an option for people who were planning to leave at 16, those of us staying on for Highers (about 60% of the year) were not offered the opportunity.

I worked for 2 weeks in the computer department of the head office of the company my father worked for ( this was in the early days of computing!) . I did an aptitude test when there and they offered me a job! I decided on university instead😊