what did you do for work experience?

[Deacon]

i went to a vauxhall garage

i simply could not belive what those guys got upto :eek: the funnyest thing was the servicing on fleet motors.......10 mins in and out :wack:

and the amount of stick the vx220 and gsi vectras got lol :D went with one of the guys to the luton head office lol that was a good drive...killed a vectra

they also relised that i was pretty handy with a spanner and when it was busy they left me with my own bay and i did a lot of work!! unsupervised. :eek:

but it was a good crack no sitting round licking envelopes :D

[symbol]

Did'nt do any , spent the 2 wks @ school watching video's , helping the pe dept.

I wanted to be a astronaught , & they could'nt get me a place anywhere. :nod:

[Cath]

At a horse yard :smitten:

[Tenman]

I used to work for Trident placing kids on W/E, some of the reports that we got back from the kids were quality...

was a funny job... stress free most of the time apart from just before school holidays when it was absolute bedlam trying to find 300 little darlings a W/E Placement, and of course they all wanted to be Doctors (etc)... made some good **** ups, like placing a convicted arsonist in a Wood Yard :eek: and a kid who had convictions for stealing Bikes in a Bike Tuners Garage, had some bad employers as well, including one who assaulted a kid with a sandwich cos the kid had chosen the last cheese & pickle from the staff canteen.

[Leon]

worked for an AIDS charity.

oh yeah. also did loads of work with Vets from age 14+

[mattpayne]

I did two lots of work experience, both about 10 - 15 years back (christ! doesnt time fly!!!)

one lot was for a company called Interlink communications - working on PCB design and assembly for print servers and various other serial devices :) the day where computer components were hand assembled, all the resistors had to point the same way :) so it looked nice!! and the flow soldering machine was only used a few times a week!

then another time for Colchester Computer Center... in the good ol days of the Atari ST and Amiga battles :)

[R33-Drifter]

I spent the time with me dad doing Electrics :D :thumbs:

[PulsatingStar]

I was at First Choice holidays, just in an office department.

Every single person there was an old woman, and as such I didnt really ever talk to them. I also did just about every piece of work you can imagine much quicker than them due to their computer illiteracy. For some reason they gave me a really bad report, which made things difficult from me as I had to try and erase any knownledge of work experience from my CV when looking for a job...

[JB]

Spent 2 weeks working for a local undertakers, whose daughter I was going out with at the time.

[Deacon]

Originally posted by JB
Spent 2 weeks working for a local undertakers, whose daughter I was going out with at the time.

how was it Jb


the girl and the job :D

[Dunk]

Spent 2 weeks at the local ford dealership in 1991

This were Sierra Cosworth days :D

I also found out that 3door Cossies without the Whale Tail are almost undriveable above 90 - they just go everywhere (some upper class twot wanted the spoiler taken off his 87 3 door, as he thought it spoiled the look!!!! )

[JB]

Originally posted by *DeathStar*
how was it Jb


the girl and the job :D
The girl was very average as it turned out. The job was great. Lots of laughs, surprisingly. But I wouldn't want to earn my living doing that.

[Gary]

Worked at a design company called farrows and at a resturaunt called zuckermans.

Loved both of them, Zuckermans was superb because I was surrounded by 20yr old blonde/brunette student girls.... in a hot kitchen... :thumbs:


edit:

It was also in the heat of summer.... drooool

[Deacon]

i could not deal with all the dead bodys :wack:

[Sideways Danny]

worked in emmisions lab at millbrook, drove some cars on rollers and did lots of data logging:cool:

[Deacon]

Originally posted by sideways danny
worked in emmisions lab at millbrook, drove some cars on rollers and did lots of data logging:cool:


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now thats work experance :)

[Sideways Danny]

Originally posted by *DeathStar*
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now thats work experance :)

yeah but i went back and worked in the crash lab for 4 years after that:D

[Dave H]

Originally posted by Dunk
Spent 2 weeks at the local ford dealership in 1991

This were Sierra Cosworth days :D

I also found out that 3door Cossies without the Whale Tail are almost undriveable above 90 - they just go everywhere (some upper class twot wanted the spoiler taken off his 87 3 door, as he thought it spoiled the look!!!! )

I spent 2 weeks at mine in 1988, helped fit superchargers to 4X4 sierra's, and do a twin turbo conversion on a granada (that went well), spent most of my time just passing the spanners though ;)

[danch]

Done my WE for Psygnosis/Psyclapse around the days of Shadow of the Beast on the Amiga.

At the end they asked me what computer I had and they then proceeded to give me a bag with about 10 games in & t-shirts etc.

After that decided i wanted to work in Games testing and later on landed a job in Sony SCEE in Liverpool, lasted 2 months as I was working a night job aswell which paid better.

Cheers

Daniel

[Phil L]

2 weeks as porter in hospital....nurses, hubba, hubba, drool ! :D

Good fun, especially when the wheelchairs had wobbly wheel syndrome.
Crash situations were chaotic...real eye opener.
Highest responsibility was changing the oxygen tanks on baby incubators :eek:

[gaz.thomas]

The first lot (4th year) was at the town hall in legal. That was when I thought I could manage seven more years of school.
The next lot (lower 6) was in a local music shop. I played the pianos and the guitars and accompanied the alcoholic owner to the pub every lunchtime. He usually had a six pack to go aswell. If oly work was really like that. Thinking about it - the last fortnight before I got made redundant from Marconi had some familiar themes...

Gaz
-x-

[Ken]

Didn't do work experience when I was at school:(

[simonas]

in a solictors in liverpool

[Wak]

I spent a week at the local bike shop, mainly working on my own bike. I learnt how to true wheels which has been an incredibly useful skill over the years.

[SMiFFAD]

Did mine in some industrial workshops....... built a 5 bar gate outta 3" gas pipe and stainless, surprisingly enough its still solid as a rock today, some 7 years later (gone through a few posts though cos its a tad heavy! :D

[Aitch]

I spent my work experience in the local Woolworths, where I just happened to already have a part time after school job anyway. They were short staffed so I offered to help out because I hated school anyway, but the manager was unsure about me taking timeoff school - I got school to ring my manager to ask if he would let me do work experience there. I had told him to epxpect the call and he said yes. Then followed 2 weeks paid work experience, most of it at time and half because I was working more hours than I was contracted for. Manager had a full compliment of staff ans school thought I was showing an interest in something. Everyone a winner. :D

[Sideways Danny]

Originally posted by Aitch
I spent my work experience in the local Woolworths, where I just happened to already have a part time after school job anyway. They were short staffed so I offered to help out because I hated school anyway, but the manager was unsure about me taking timeoff school - I got school to ring my manager to ask if he would let me do work experience there. I had told him to epxpect the call and he said yes. Then followed 2 weeks paid work experience, most of it at time and half because I was working more hours than I was contracted for. Manager had a full compliment of staff ans school thought I was showing an interest in something. Everyone a winner. :D

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Aitch beats the system:D

[Aitch]

Originally posted by sideways danny
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Aitch beats the system:D

Everytime! ;)

[mattygti-r]

worked with my uncle for 2 weeks in london on the commodity markets in the City.

:D

dont u just love 3hr lunch breaks :p

[Genjuro]

I spent 2 weeks at equitable life licking envelopes. Not very interesting. :(

[Parker]

Im into fishing so I went to Broadlands Lakes (at the time it was in the top ten waters in the country). We did a bit of work in the mornings then fished all day for two weeks of july!!!

[Ant]

Worked for a week in HMV :D