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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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ragged · 08/11/2015 15:09

Being able to build apparatus's is relevant, so something engineering is good if he's minded.

LynetteScavo · 10/11/2015 20:36

An energy company working to develop alternative energy technologies.

nightsky010 - this sounds spot on! (yes, this is the DS who won't eat anything from a cow because of the environmental impact Hmm)

Atm DS is on a really downer and saying he doesn't want to go to uni, or get an aprentiship and will just get a job (but hasn't even applied for any weekend jobs). I really want to shove him in the right direction with work experience, so he can realise there are some interesting careers out there. -I won't actually do the leg work (I refused in Y10 but school sorted it out for him) but I will nag!

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