Next week is going to be one of the busiest weeks of my life.

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I'm doing work experience!

I'm doing my experience at a place called Kids South-East, which works with special needs children. I'll be working in the Admin department, using MS Word, MS Access and many other things (I have to be flexible).

I had my interview yesterday, and that went pretty well. Surprisingly I wasn't that nervous. The person who interviewed me took me (and my Mum) around the building, explaining all the different rooms and introduced everyone there to me. It was smaller than I thought, only about 8 other people working on the computers, so I can get to know them better than if I were in a large office. They promised they won't make me make Coffee all day! :lol:

I'll be working 9-5, Monday to Friday. At the same time, on Tuesday and Thursday, I'll have my usual evening College classes. On the Saturday I'll be going to a party at my Auntie and Uncles house, which involves getting up early (again!) and a 2 hour drive there and back. I'm going to be pretty worn out! GTP will be very limited too...

Just thought I'd say this so you guys can wish me luck! I'll be nervous on my first day I'm sure of it...
 
Good luck James!

I start Uni tomorrow, so if we end up screwing up, we'll be screw up together! :lol:
 
G.T, how old are you?

I remember a few years back to my work experience was at an auto recovery and repair garage called Guise Motors. Probably the best suited placement ever! Loading up flatbed trucks with cars (including a nice Mk2 GTE Astra) to take to the scrapper, got to work on one of the recovery trucks engines, make the tea (which the lads said I did very well.) and also working in the office on the database checking and entering data. It was great, I didn't want to go back to school the following week. lol
 
I'm 15, and Home Educated if you don't know already, so my parents and the College had to sort out all the work experience for me.

Edit: Oh, and good luck MdnIte!
 
Best of luck with the work experience, James... a necessary evil :sly: I remember mine and it was good fun mostly, except for answering the switchboard/phone, which I used to hate doing (I used to cut people off all the time!...) - but that experience held me in very good stead for when I got a real job in an Insurance company (the one with the woman in the black cape 💡 ) and I had to deal with some really tough customers over the phone... I did my work experience at a place called LRCITSU - Lothian Regional Council Information Technology Support Unit - basically a help centre for people who didn't know how to use their computers (well, it was 1991!), and I still remember it well to this day!... unfortunately, being only 15, they probably won't be allowed to do the 2nd part of work experience, which is taking you to the pub at 5pm on Friday for a well-deserved pint, so here's a virtual one instead :cheers:

G.T
GTP will be very limited too....
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Probably a good idea, you could always go for the voluntary ban option, like Jack (911_Carrera)? ;)
 
Touring Mars
Probably a good idea, you could always go for the voluntary ban option, like Jack (911_Carrera)? ;)
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I probably won't go to them extremes, as mornings and some evenings I'll still have time to be online. If it were an exam and supposed to be studying, then I probably would. :)

Thanks again guys!
 
What the hell.. I wrote I start uni tomorrow?

I meant on Monday!! Damn I must be tired.
 
Good luck G.T, try to have the most fun possible! 👍

I remember my work experience, it sucked! :lol: 1 day at McDonalds, absolutley hated it (stupid chavs...) and so I spent the rest of the 2 weeks at my dad's factory, which was awesome, he didn't let me lounge around or anything, he kept on a straight line. But it was incredibly more laid back than I remember it being.

And good luck at uni MdnIte 👍
 
Best of luck. Hopefully they won't make you do filing all day. That's what I usually get the work-experience monkey to do, anyway...

When I did work experience it was really good. I did it at a distance-learning Computer Training organisation called Computeach. The pupils wrote out their COBOL programs long-hand on grid paper, and I spent a day and a half entering their programs, compiling them, and preparing a report on all the errors they'd made. I remember once thinking that they'd meant to put a space in, so just entering it for them. Compiled with more than 2,000 errors. When I admitted it and took the space out, the program compiled with no errors. :blush:

It was valuable experience at the time, and at the end of it they gave me one of their training manuals, which usually takes a pupil 6 months to work through. I was told I was sitting an exam in 2 days! I passed though, which was good, because I ended up with an actual qualification.
 
Good luck to you G.T, and to you too MdnIte.

Both of you are taking an interesting step on the twisted path we call life.

All the best, I hope it works out the way you want - you will be rewarded with the results you deserve. :)
 
Good luck, dude. I hope you have a good outlet for stress.

Believe it or not, research has shown that when you cry, your tears contain a stress-causing chemical, leading scientists to believe that crying relieves stress, and there's physical evidence to back it up!
 
Good luck to you both. I didn't do any work experience so I've no idea what that'd be like, but it sounds like you should enjoy it G.T. My first day of uni wasn't great (none of my friends from school were doing my course at the time so I was feeling a bit alone (though I did meet a girl when my best friend and I were going about looking for one of my classrooms and I became friends with her for my first year, so it wasn't too bad)), hope yours goes better MdnIte.

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My guess is like an internship.

G.T
I'm 15, and Home Educated if you don't know already, so my parents and the College had to sort out all the work experience for me.
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Damn, I thought you were like 19.

Anyways, best of luck to you and MdnIte.
 
They promised they won't make me make Coffee all day!
:lol:
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They simple answer to this, don't admit to knowing how to make coffee :D

Good luck on your Work experience James. It can be abit daunting and sometimes very boring (I didn't actually work for mine, but there was alot of 'yeah' 'uh huh' 'yes' 'ohhh yeah' and the such.)

Also, if you work well you might get a little pay out of it :D

Probably a good idea, you could always go for the voluntary ban option, like Jack (911_Carrera)?
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He just whored MSN instead :lol::lol::lol:
 
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What exactly is work experience, I have never heard of a system like that over here in the states.
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I don't know the details too much myself as my parents and College took care of it all, but in Years 10 and 11 at school, you get to have work experience for a week. It's all set up by a group called Trident here. You get to work in a place that suits your abilities, like I am now. No point putting someone in an office to work on computers if you know nothing about them! You have an interview, and you have to sign forms for confidentiality and such if needed when you're there. It wasn't too bad and it all looked well organised.

ExigeExcel
Also, if you work well you might get a little pay out of it :D
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Really?

*must work hard*:lol:

Thanks again, guys!
 
G.T
Really?

*must work hard*:lol:

Thanks again, guys!
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Actualy thinking about it, don't.

If I remember, all teh people that did hardly anything but worked in offices and such got payed, but all those that were helping painters and electrivians didn't :D
 
So... let me getthis straight. You're 15... and you're going to work.

Are you sure you're not going to be manufacturing for Nike? :lol:

Have a great one, James. Welcome to the underpaid and overworked world. 👍
 
Diego440
Have a great one, James. Welcome to the underpaid and overworked world. 👍
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:lol:

Tis true!!

Good luck James, i'm sure you'll be alright and will have a lot of great fun!!

;)

I'm also going to do work experience, but in the summer. Hopefully with Deloitte or KPMG depending on how well my assessments and interviews go :D
 
Thanks, you two!

Today is the day. I'm still not sure if I'm looking forward to it or dreading it. I don't feel a thing. :lol:
 
Remember, it is the law that you are not allowed to work for longer than 45 minutes without a coffee....

... or did I dream that? ;)

G.T
I don't feel a thing. :lol:
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he he... whatever did you have for breakfast this morning?!
 
G.T
... Today is the day. I'm still not sure if I'm looking forward to it or dreading it. I don't feel a thing. :lol:
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Once again, good luck. Although I think you may already be there by now...

Make sure you stop in when you're done and tell us how your first day went, won't you. :)
 
Good luck :)

I did my work experience last september, it wasn't too bad because i just wandered round a warehouse picking up boxes :D

I managed to go 8 hours without a toilet/lunch break.....
 
I'm back! :D

Well, it was great!

In the morning I had to go through all the safety stuff and such, so that took up pretty much 30 mins of the morning. For the next 1 1/2 hours I was sitting in reception, watching what a receptionist does. That was quite interesting, but it's certainly not a job I'd like to do!

Before lunch, I was in the Admin office sorting out a few things. Making projectors work and this camera. There was a bunch of things we couldn't figure out. We couldn't get the pictures off the camera because we didn't know what the network password was, and the pictures that already exist on the PC aren't actualy there when it said they were. :odd: I guess that'll get sorted out tomorrow...

After an hours lunch (I HAD to have an hour, because I'm underage), I was looking through catalogues. I had to look though a list someone had made and had to look for the best value things, like cameras, toys, ect for the company, then put them into a table. Some of the things I had to do I had done in my CLAIT course, so that came in handy there. :) The only problem was what exactly did they want. For example, musical toys, I don't know what they already have and what "musical" is. Sounds or actualy music? I done it for 3 1/2 hours! I just got bored after a while and started to chat to the other staff for the last 30mins. :lol:

Tommorow I should be doing payslips for the morning, then going through the table I made, which then it should hopefully get fully explained to me and to see if I've done OK!
 

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