Work Experience

[Bewlay Bros]

Just watching Waterloo Road and the kids are on work experience.

What did you do for yours?

And did it have any bearing on your latter career?

[ummmm]

I didn't do it. I lived in a pub and worked in a restaurant so had enough already. I just took the week off.

[Beads]

Worked in a library. Had no bearing on choice of career/job!

[dot.hawkes]

There was no such thing when I was at Ormskirk grammar school, you were either academic and so went to the Grammar School or you were not academic and went to the Secondary Modern and left at 15 to work. That was the 11 plus era, some at Secondary did well though, but not many did GCE O level or went on to Uni.

[Bewlay Bros]

Are you from Ormskirk?????

I went out with a girl from there once.

Do you know Jack Leg Farm/Kennels??

[dot.hawkes]

i absolutely do!! they were near Pilkington Glass laboratory which you could see from our front window as we were up on the hill across fron lathom

[Bewlay Bros]

You don't know the Lead family do you???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[dot.hawkes]

oH, she wasn't called Turnpenny was she?

[dot.hawkes]

lol oh, no I don;t think so, I know the Turnpenny's lived there as my sister went out with the son when i got married. i think the kennels started in the 1970s cos my mother-in-law used to take her Yorkie there for grooming as i recall

[~Wingnut~]

I worked at an RHS garden, then worked there again for work experience at college. Spent a year working for the Rothschild family in one of their estate gardens and eventually went on to gain an ND in Horticulture. I am a school cook now, funny how life pans out.

[Bewlay Bros]

How weird dotty that your sister and I have both dated somebody from the same farm!!!!

I thought you said tup'penny for a minute. Because if memory serves me right, she was a tup'penny ha'penny trollop by all accounts.

Do you recall an emergency landing in their field by an RAF Chinook about 1999?????. I think it made the local rag.

[rabbitygirl]

I worked as a typist on a huge factory site. At the end of 2 weeks at the same desk (the usual occupant was off sick) her husband came in to fetch something from her workplace. Amazingly, it was my cousin. I completed my commerce course, got the first job I applied for, stayed 2 years, became bored silly, was sexually harassed by the boss, and left.

I then briefly became ...... a traffic warden!!!!

But I have often returned to office work. I am a fast touch typist. I am told we are a rare thing. I either become aware of people watching me or told to make less noise with the keyboard.

[neo.]

I did my work experience in a quantity surveyors.It was next to a nightclub ....which had a fire on the first nite i worked there. Smoke filtered thro to the office i was working in so i was choking all week.I was top of class at surveying hence why i chose it. It turned out I failed my surveying O Level...so i became an accountant instead.

[rabbitygirl]

angel12 - yes - one of my favourite jobs. Worked in central London. It was actually great fun in those days, early 70's. We weren't liked but certainly weren't hated the way they are now. Different times...

[dot.hawkes]

blimey wardy I'll ask my bro about that Chinook , he still lives there, !!