Re: Work Experence... ******* youths
 

Didnt have work experience in the 1970s
Having said that there were real jobs to go and do so we got the experience that way.
Its a strange world.

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Work experience? Work experience? When I was first able to walk unattended it was down the pit for me.12 hour shifts with no time off at weekends. This was a blessing after my first work experience of working with a chimney sweep who would have me a clambering up many a stack. And if I ever got a tadge stuck the lousy old git would light a fire underneath me.:(

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Luxury.

We ad it tuff.Ad to dig pit before we got coal out and regualrly got killed if the boss was in.8 day working week and we ad to pay for privelage of working there.No one lived more than five minutes.
Tell that to todays youngsters













And they wont believe you.:confused:

Re: Work Experence... ******* youths
 

they didnt have work experience when i was at school. you just left school and got a job as YPS or something. my first job as office junior in solicitors office I got £23 a week. my friend worked in micro electronics factory and got £100 a week. I then got a full time job at £27 a week woohoo. still managed to get a mortgage at 19.

my daughter is doing work experience in feb and the choices are crap. she wants to do something along the lines of interior design but will end up in a shop as you are more of less guaranteed a saturday job when you are 16.

we have loads apply to work at the school because they finish at 3. none are interested in teaching or working with kids (saying that neither am I)

Re: Work Experence... ******* youths
 

Nah see here lad,when I was colierin we had to cut out pit entrance with our own teeth I tell yer. And dust had fer be washed away by using our own tongues. You had it easy you did,I tell yer. You obviously started after them there namby pamby reforms took place.

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Aye times was ard.
But then I joined SV.ORG and I been shaggin the bosses wife ever since.

:rave:

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Ah, work experience. Worked in a car garage with my dad's mate, the owner, because I took a vague interest in car mechanics. I then spent a year chasing this as a career, got a job and decided I hated it. I now work an apprentice telephone engineer and I love it.

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you can tell them to not come back can't you?, when i started my work experience (14) i had to make my own way there and they told me if i was late or abusive it would all be going in a report and could result in me getting the shuv, even though it was boring, it was a lot more interesting than school, best 2 weeks of my school life:p, then when i left school they offered me a job, stayed 4 months then i left, that payed for my 1st bike and set the ball rolling :riding:

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Today was a little better, The asistant teacher had to stay all day so she donned a pair of covies and boots and got stuck in, oil & fuel change on a Land Rover, Head lamp change on a Leyland Daf truck, asisting in fitting a new Fuel injection pump on a 4 ton Leyland DAF and watching how to use the swan neck and spill time the pump to the engine.
She even had a laugh and didn't mind greasing up the prop shaft nipples, great fun wizzing under the truck on a crawler board.
the other two lads also got stuck in today. They were quite well behaved, they only went for a fag brake when my guys did, and were quite polite today...

She (the teacher) must have said something to put the fear of GOD into them on the way in today....:smt074

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Or a "sky hook" ;P

We had some work experience kids at the garden centre I worked at, a couple were ok but the other two were pretty much useless, they screwed everything up so a normal member of staff had to spend just as long again fixing it. I made one lad cry by constantly taking the **** outta him and sending him to the grumpiest member of staff asking for "dark lights" and "left hand scewdrivers" hahahahahaha!