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Acrylic-bob · 28-06-2005, 06:15

A thread by mel3ft, "Work Experience", has got me thinking. Between us we must have hundreds of years of experience of working for a living. From that collective experience, what is the best advice you could give to a young person leaving school and hoping to start earning a living?

What career choices would you hope to steer them towards and which would you try to steer them away from and WHY?

I remember that when I was starting out at the tail end of the sixties my choices were very limited, it was either Bulloughs or the Bakery. It seems painfully obvious now, but why where we not told that solicitors, doctors and accountants make far more money than factory workers? Why were we not told that at 15 years of age anything was possible and that no goal was too high?

To start us off I remember a sage piece of advice I was given one day while hand digging a drainage ditch. "You'll never get rich if you work with your head below the level of your arse".

28-06-2005, 06:15	#1
Acrylic-bob God Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tragic Conn Posts: 4,007 Blog Entries: 15 Liked: 3 times Rep Power: 2473	If I knew then what I know now... A thread by mel3ft, "Work Experience", has got me thinking. Between us we must have hundreds of years of experience of working for a living. From that collective experience, what is the best advice you could give to a young person leaving school and hoping to start earning a living? What career choices would you hope to steer them towards and which would you try to steer them away from and WHY? I remember that when I was starting out at the tail end of the sixties my choices were very limited, it was either Bulloughs or the Bakery. It seems painfully obvious now, but why where we not told that solicitors, doctors and accountants make far more money than factory workers? Why were we not told that at 15 years of age anything was possible and that no goal was too high? To start us off I remember a sage piece of advice I was given one day while hand digging a drainage ditch. "You'll never get rich if you work with your head below the level of your arse". __________________ Enough is ENOUGH Get Britain out of Europe Last edited by Acrylic-bob; 28-06-2005 at 06:22.