What to do with work experience kid?

When I was 14 I spent a week at CAD design company. I worked with one of the engineers and the boss making changes to code for one of their design packages and learning how to use it/test - I was a bit out of my depth but they mentored me anyway.

I was taken out for lunch every day and really enjoyed myself. At the end of the week the boss said to me 'we can't pay you, but you are welcome to anything in my office...'. I came away with 387 maths co pro and a copy of Autocad and Borland Pascal Turbo.

I remember my dad picking me up, he thought I'd robbed the place.

Ah happy days :)
 
BluZiff said:
Unless you were doing the most terrible mind numbing manual labor, then it puts the company out to have you a hell of a lot more than they get any benefit from it.

If you chose to do your manual labour down the quarry or similar, when you could have gone anywhere, then that really was your fault.
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I love manual labour, it's like being at the gym while working. Work up a sweat it's great.

Working at the spar involved "heres the till" "heres how to use it" "if it's quiet stack shelves" "i'm going to go sit in my front room and watch tv". Most boring mind numbing crap i'd ever done, I'd read every magazine in the stand after the first 3 days, including a nice in depth look at all the porn.
It's just slave labour, you learn nothing from it unless you get an interesting job, which was basically impossible when i was at school.

It should be optional, stay in the classroom, or be a slave.
 
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I get around said:
It should be optional, stay in the classroom, or be a slave.
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You are comparing 2 weeks of work than millions of people in the country do for a very large portion of their lives to slave labour?

You are either deluded or just an idiot.


I think the people who complain about 2 weeks of work experience for free, which as a teenager is hard to get, are just being whiny because life didn't go their way, grow the hell up. It was hardly back breaking labour, yes it was dull but so are 90% of peoples jobs for their entire bloody lives!


To be honest from what you have said, you probably didn't deserve payment, you are clearly not a nice person, have no problem stealing from others and expect everything when you give nothing. Hell I wouldn't even give you benefits.
 
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I deal with WEX students every day at the hospital.
All students are given an interview so we can see what they really want and it isn't just a tick in a box.
My own Young Apprentices (aged 14/16) do 1 day a week for 2 years in Health, Social and Early Years placements.
 
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