What age are you when you do work experience?

[Stinky]

September is right at the beginning of the school year?

this is true lol oops

 

[Masterdog]

We did it late in the summer term of yr 10 (year before GCSEs). Which would have made most people 15yo. Did mine at Goonhilly Earth Station - went up inside a satellite dish, which was quite fun. Apart from that it was surfing this new-fangled internet thingy.

 

[MookJong]

Did a week in the Council IT department when I was 16, played Rise of the Triad most of the time lol

 

[robbi187]

I done mine in a VW main dealers and jacked a car up on the sill instead of the jacking point, brand new passat As you can probably tell I was well liked after that

 

[Admiral Huddy]

I had a spell of work experience whilst I was at Hogwarts.

I was working in a local bike shop making tea all day. I was 15 I think.
Total waste of time imo.

 

[Azagoth]

Did it in the 4th/5th year of highschool, so I'd have been around the 15/16 mark.

It was great too. Computer department of the Michelin with punch cards, vacuum fed tape drives and more bizarrely loads of guy's with brown ties, beards and mostly named Geoff.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Think I was 15, was an awesome week off school in Alpine Bikes.
I'm not sure what it was meant to teach you tbh but I loved every minute of it.

 

[West]

I was 15/Y10

 

[Pinter75]

Can't remeber how old I was, but I got the sweetest work experiance out of everyone in the school!

I was placed at GM's special vehicles facility in Luton. 1st week was in the engineering department where I used CAD to design and machine bits. Then I was in the design studio. I even had to sign a non-disclosure contract.

The design studio was awesome, there were guys making full size clay models of prototype cars, and I was placed with a designer/stylist. Together we designed a new corvette.

What did everyone else do, they did placements in shops/hair dressers and other usefull things.

I came back with my designs and renderings, and it was the base for my Graphic Design A-Level. The originals ended up on the school wall, I only got them back when I left.

Usefull times, I am now a Graphic Designer/Developer/Engineer/Tech head

School was awesome (for me anyway)

 

[shauncr91]

I did mine at 15 IIRC, nearing the end of year 10.

 

[nikebee]

i did mine at the company i now work for lol

Same

Did work exp. for the company I work for, did a little bit of simply coding and tech support etc...

Went off and did my A-Levels, and ended up getting a job with them!

I'm now Lead Programmer & SEO Consultant

 

[Energize]

Just had the work experience person come in to drop off a letter. how old are they when they do work experience??

any ideas? i cant remember when i did it

Your 20 and you can't remember when you did it?

 

[Col_M]

I did mine at the end of year 10 at British Aerospace Systems and Equipment.

It was awesome they let me loose on SeaDart missile gyros, BAe Hawk artificial horizon gyros, optically aligning the heads in a thing called Ptarmigan which was a 1mb hard disk in a egg shaped pod about 0.5m accross and spent a lot of time in the clean rooms in a "noddy" suit.

 

[manoz]

14 or 15, I also did it every summer until I started uni

 

[4T5]

Well i did 3 months last year & i am 42

/Special Needs

 

[Fireskull]

14 or 15, I worked on a caravan park, driving those big lawn movers all day everyday was brilliant

 

[Vixen]

I think I did mine in my second year of high school, so I would have been 14. I'm pretty sure it was before we started any standard grade work since we had a week off school. I went round primary schools with a music teacher, it was great fun .

 

[Sinque]

I was 15, middle of year 10 is when it happens. Waste of bloody time

 

[Burnsy2023]

I did it at school when I was 15/16 and then again when I was 16/17 at college (got to spend 2 weeks at IBM )

Burnsy

 

[G|mp]

I was 15 when i did mine, in a brewery