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What did your careers advisor at school reckon what your career should be?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It was recommended that I become an actuary in the insurance biz. I did not become an actuary in the insurance biz, just to clarify"
Bearing in mind that I left school (officially) in 1981
Careers advice was mostly, do you want to work indoors or out
So I got married and had babies
Missy x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"It was recommended that I become an actuary in the insurance biz. I did not become an actuary in the insurance biz, just to clarify
Bearing in mind that I left school (officially) in 1981
Careers advice was mostly, do you want to work indoors or out
So I got married and had babies
Missy x"
That sounds entirely positive |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It was recommended that I become an actuary in the insurance biz. I did not become an actuary in the insurance biz, just to clarify"
Your school sounds far more fancy than mine. I folded napkins and polished plates on my work experience week (also one of the chefs offered to have sex with me  )
Think the careers advise bloke said something along the lines of 'I'd doubt they'll let you stop on in the 6th form'  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"It was recommended that I become an actuary in the insurance biz. I did not become an actuary in the insurance biz, just to clarify
Your school sounds far more fancy than mine. I folded napkins and polished plates on my work experience week (also one of the chefs offered to have sex with me )
It was an old fashioned grammar school, my Dad was a London Cabbie, and my Mum was a Home Help. We weren’t rich, but not poor, I was just lucky to get in to a school that was resourced
Think the careers advise bloke said something along the lines of 'I'd doubt they'll let you stop on in the 6th form' "
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe |
The conversation with my careers officer went something like this:
C.O. What do you want to do when you leave school?
Me. I want to be a lumberjack
C.O. Don't be daft. Your dad owns a garage, you can be a mechanic. Off you go!
Off I went and got a job making snooker tables for a few months before getting a job as a mechanic on heavy machinery. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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He didn’t. But he did tell me to look at the negatives of a job. And if you can ignore them because you still want to do it, you’ll be fine.
He was a really good down to earth teacher.
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There was no work experience and the teacher that offered careers advice didn’t like me and the feeling was entirely mutual so I didn’t bother with him. I forged my own way and now I’m semi retired, looking back I did ok. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
The so-called careers teacher at the local grammar school I attended was actually a mathematics teacher who had no real interest in the post; I saw him once, he provided nothing of any value and so I simply went and did my own thing, successfully
The term, career, is a word that I detest as it implies, to me, confined by other people's rules.
I am a free spirit, who does his own thing and thus I am the master of my own destiny. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The so-called careers teacher at the local grammar school I attended was actually a mathematics teacher who had no real interest in the post; I saw him once, he provided nothing of any value and so I simply went and did my own thing, successfully
The term, career, is a word that I detest as it implies, to me, confined by other people's rules.
I am a free spirit, who does his own thing and thus I am the master of my own destiny."
A game designer for Legend Of Zelda |
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As a female in Australia during the mid 80s, I was told not to aspire to go to university as I was hoping, but to look for jobs that didn’t require any qualifications higher than a technical college. This was based upon prejudice and lack of support for my dyslexia. I now have an MA in archaeology.  Although working in an office pays the bills.
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My careers advisor was also my geography teacher so thought he knew what my abilities were.
When I went to see him about career advice and told him i wanted to be an electrician he told me in the best way he thought possible (directly) that I wasn't intelligent enough to do that and maybe brick layer would be more up my street.
Needless to say I ignored the advice, done an apprenticeship and qualified as one in 1992.
It didn't end so well though as got made redundant soon after because of the state of the building trade at the time and never really went back to it until I had to do something during COVID when I got some work with a local firm.
Hopefully today's advisors are a little more encouraging. |
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"My careers advisor was also my geography teacher so thought he knew what my abilities were.
When I went to see him about career advice and told him i wanted to be an electrician he told me in the best way he thought possible (directly) that I wasn't intelligent enough to do that and maybe brick layer would be more up my street.
Needless to say I ignored the advice, done an apprenticeship and qualified as one in 1992.
It didn't end so well though as got made redundant soon after because of the state of the building trade at the time and never really went back to it until I had to do something during COVID when I got some work with a local firm.
Hopefully today's advisors are a little more encouraging. "
Well done you for proving him wrong. Some advisors don’t seem to care or are full of prejudice, and often too quickly put people into ‘boxes’.
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Our careers guidance guy was also the geography teacher for some reason. He told me not to bother doing mechanical engineering as that was a dying industry and I should do medicine.
As it happens I completely ignored him and had a great career as an engineer. I would have made an bloody awful doctor. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
All girls with a brain were directed towards typing.
I did TD, but they wouldn't let me take electronics so I left school and became a housewife and mother.
It wasn't so easy to follow your dream back then.
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"Our careers guidance guy was also the geography teacher for some reason. He told me not to bother doing mechanical engineering as that was a dying industry and I should do medicine.
As it happens I completely ignored him and had a great career as an engineer. I would have made an bloody awful doctor."
How on earth could someone think mechanical engineering would ever die out.
Did he think we wouldn't have machinery in the year 2000? |
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"Our careers guidance guy was also the geography teacher for some reason. He told me not to bother doing mechanical engineering as that was a dying industry and I should do medicine.
As it happens I completely ignored him and had a great career as an engineer. I would have made an bloody awful doctor.
How on earth could someone think mechanical engineering would ever die out.
Did he think we wouldn't have machinery in the year 2000?"
No idea. I pointed out to him that virtually everything he used every day had mechanical engineering involved. And his answer was that no its all done by computers now  |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
The role of a careers advisor, especially in a school, may have improved over the years in that these people have received training to undertake this important role, but many just want the extra money and are out of touch.
I would advise anyone to watch Jordan Petersen's lecture online about jobs, careers, success in a job, ability, intelligence and the selection processes that organisations use.
Jordan is a bit of a pain, but his lecture about jobs and careers is right on the button.
Most careers advisors would benefit from watching it!
There are two versions, as I recall; the longer one is more informative in that it is comprehensive. |
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It was pointed out to me by my then year head.
Your a useless waste of space and will mount to nothing.
You'd better leave school now as I'll make sure you get nothing in all your exams.
That was the only career advice I got.
I wish I could have gone back ten years later rich and successful and rubbed his nose in it.
Alas I think he was actually correct  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We didn't have a career advisor per say. Just someone we could go to to find information on jobs that interested us.
I was looking at Civil Engineering via Uni (Probably Southampton) but I knew I wouldn't score high enough in my GCSE's or A levels. |
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By *JandCMCouple
over a year ago
cardiff |
In 1981 was genuinely told I should take whatever dead-end job I would be so lucky to be offered n hold on to it for as long as possible before I fuck it up.
Teachers in my school were right wankers, just wish I could tell them how I proved them wrong.
I retired at 52 (5 years ago) n did quit well for myself, that is after I built up my confidence that my teachers were more than happy to shatter, along with lots of other kids for fun. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
At that age (16) I wanted to be a pilot. The careers advisor suggested ground crew was easier to get into.
A year or so later, I fell in love with programming so I've been a software engineer all my working life. |
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