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Naff Careers Advice
Former Member
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in Work & Study
Has anybody been given some decent careers advice? I find it amazing that whether you say you want to be a web developer or a DJ you still get given information about joining the Navy or working for Woolworths (not that theres anything wrong with that...there just doesn't seem to be any choice)
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They suggested that I look at lab work, but I still wish I'd stuck to my guns.
Also, they discouraged me from taking A levels, saying that I'd be better off doing day release from the lab. (Experience + qualification). I now know that had i gone to university I would have been able to get much more interesting (& higher paid) jobs.
J9
PS I wonder what qualifications you need to be a careers adviser lol.
Mine came up as (no joke) either a leather technologist or a brewery supervisor. Maybe deep down I really am a biker or the owner of an S&M night club, but somehow I doubt it...
Yep, we were given crap advice at our school too. But what are your other choices? You could visit a career psychologist for a proper profile but it costs a fortune!
So what did you end up doing then Ed?
J9
Please have another look round: http://www.thesite.org/careers/
If you could add anything at all to make it better, what would it be? All cool ideas welcome, even if they sound impractical or just plain crazy!
Karla - how about the way the modern workplace is changing, people having 2 or 3 different careers, retraining, lifelong learning, stuff like that? Or how to handle it if you get 'downsized' ie sacked. Or a job makeover from a careers expert. Or how to cope when you work with a bunch of twats.
lol.
Tells you everything about the navy
True, my university careers advisor was excellent. The jobcentre plus website is actually quite useful aswell:
jobcentreplus
Sounds a bit harsh bongbudda.
Nothing wrong with bringing up older threads now and again I don't think.
I agree, and bringing up a thread that was dead 2 years before bongbudda even joined doesn't justify a crucifixion. I mean what are the chances that he'd read that thread anyway?
Oh shut the heck up you whining idiot.
If you think that Bongbudda was being harsh then you've seen nothing.
Seriously, shut up. Don't drag up old threads.
And on a random question, why can people not do their own research anymore? There is an excellent armed forces careers website, are people on here allergic to google or something?
I could have pointed out that its against the rules to do so, and that it will get you very much disliked by the members who know better and I could even have generally insulted you. I just explained why you shouldnt do it.
So sod off.
I accidentally replied to a thread the other day, which the person before me had re-opened after a long time. The date on it was therefore current, so I didn't know!!!
I escaped the wrath of the oldies, but feel it would help if you could somehow close old threads automatically.
mine came back as something like P.E teacher or Farm Technician, who writes these things anyway?
p.s. SORRY SORRY SORRY i didnt read on and realise it was an old thread :flirt:
I was always told that I could be a truck driver or a farm labourer. gee, ta.
Because most of the information in the thread will be out of date, people will have to re-read the whole thing again and some people will have left altogether.
That and it really doesnt matter why, the Mods say you shouldn't do it, so you shouldn't, they are the boss and we are mear users, except me whose sort of half way between.