Work Experience.

[SouthUpperYellows]

I worked at the Inland Revenue in Southend, Was pretty good, lots of half days and worked with some pretty cool people. I worked with loads of different departments so when I left they all got me gift vouchers for Game, got about £70 in the end!!

 

[South Bank Hank]

Two weeks on the Sports Desk at Reuters. Oh. Yes. Eat my journalistic work experience-related dust, Slipper :D.

Did you not read!? He was 'Head of Porn'!!!!

I don't know what Top Trumps packs you had as a child, but for me, Slips wins this round.

:finger:

 

[ozzy-shrimper]

Are you Kerrea Gilbert?

How did you find out? :confused:

 

[cockles is back]

I did 2 weeks at bell sports

and he brought me a chinease takeaway on my last day at lunch, and when he went for a hair cut I had to sit outside the shop as he locked it up

 

[Kent Shrimper]

3 Weeks at Estuary Computers in Vic Circus. Good times.

 

[Kenny]

Did a couple of weeks at the recently torched Jegs.

 

[McNasty]

You young people don't know how lucky you are , skiving for a few weeks. Us old people went from school straight to a proper job to keep the country going , none of this hippy student rubbish with Pot Noodles and SU beer at £1 a pint.
A good day's work would leave you wanting a week's holiday, you should try working down pit, covered in dirt and having to shower with 30 hard men, you couldn't hack it !

 

[EastStandBlue]

4 days with the Southend United team last summer ! :D

Richie?



Fancy a Pint?



Anyway, me and my mate did the compulsory two weeks at Topman. Was ok, was used as manual labour but got to look at come cracking birds downstairs in Topshop. I have to do 2 weeks academical experience next year, which my tutor is lining up for me at either the FA in Soho Sq. or at a Prem Club in London... which should be fantastic as it's what I want to ultimately achieve.

 

[EastStandBlue]

having to shower with 30 hard men

Less said of that the better...

 

[Medway Blue]

2 weeks with the Department of Leisure, Culture and Amenities at SBC. Really varied. Few days in the office at the Civic Centre sending faxes, doing some filing and adding up employee mileage so that they could get their travel allowance. A day in the crematorium (I was taken out back and shown one of the ovens, and when I looked inside I saw half a ribcage burning :( ). Then spent a day on the pier working behind the desk and had a go at driving the train back and forth between the head and the shore. Then spent a day patrolling the seafront for litter bugs and stupid things like that. Then spent a day as a passenger on the council-run mini bus that takes all the old barely-able-to-walk wrinklies to the supermarkets and high street :)

 

[Mad Cyril]

In 1988 I applied for work experience in the air traffic control tower at Southend airport.

I ended up photocopying and filing invoices at Ecko plastics.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

In 1988 I applied for work experience in the air traffic control tower at Southend airport.

Were you overqualified for the role?

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Didnt do work experience at school. Our year was banned from doing it :(

 

[Firestorm]

My son did his two weeks at SUFC too, helping with the articles for the website, programmes etc (pre-Scriv)

 

[axe]

I did two weeks bug finding at DataEase in Ilford (Pre MS Access database software)

Should really have learnt from then that there are absolutley NO fit women in software development.

Just have to listen to the rest of your stories :(

 

[Napster]

worked for a IFA in Farringdon, although one of his clients was Bob Holness. Sadly I never met Bob but I got a signed photo for my Nan. (of Bob, not my boss)

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

Did you not read!? He was 'Head of Porn'!!!!

I don't know what Top Trumps packs you had as a child, but for me, Slips wins this round.

:finger:

Hey hey hey, I'm terming 'work experience' as the two weeks you did in year 10 at school, not a post-graduate series of grovelling for unpaid jobs whilst no-one will employ without any experience :finger:

 

[Suomi Shrimper]

WHSB don't believe in Trident, so my dad sorted me out with a placement in the "General Office" of one of his clients, Norton Rose, which was a law firm near Liverpool Street. I got paid £30 a day "subsistence" for two weeks, and had three main duties: 1) help sort the mail bags when they came in twice a day; 2) make internal mail runs about once an hour; and 3) sit around drinking tea, reading tabloids, going online and learning life lessons from the ten other guys who worked down there, including a Brazilian van driver called Rudi ("Chris, Chris, you like to - uh - licka da puss?")

Best job ever.

 

[number11]

Mens shirt and tie section in section Debenhams. Taught me everything I need to know about life.:rolleyes:

 

[SUFC_Al]

Olympus Sport when it was in Keddies. It was okay, although the most valuable thing I learnt was how to lace a trainer in double-quick time. That's really helped me in life that has.