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GTIR
Original Poster
19,228 posts
136 months
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I don't even know if they do this anymore but in the 80's everyone had to do work experience whilst at school. I worked at Times furniture store, The Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead.  It was so boring and the shop smelt of old people. It shut down years ago. What about you?
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bigrich4
519 posts
27 months
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In the 90's I worked for a software company called Micas in Stourport. The place stank of cigarettes and everything in the offices had a strange yellow tint as there were several chain smokers in the place. I don't think the company is going anymore.
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fatboy b
5,630 posts
86 months
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It wasn't mandatory. I left school in the 80's and never did it, though some did.
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z4chris99
5,824 posts
49 months
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I shadowed a dentist, at the time I wanted to be one for some stupid reason
my bro worked for an arms dealer in devon, much cooler
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OtherBusiness
30 posts
12 months
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I did mine with the Royal Navy at Portsmouth dockyard. It was brilliant - I was seconded to the engineering section as that's the area I wanted to join but spent each day doing something different. One day was spent on the tugs, another on ark royal in the engine room, talked to shipping from the control tower, had a morning with the science section, trip round the isle of wight on ark royal as well! I didn't end up joining the navy but as work experience went is was pretty good. Worst bit was walking into the canteen on my first day, being a young looking 16 years old the whole place turned and looked and I remember the noise suddenly stopping!
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TheHeretic
69,407 posts
125 months
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A car body shop... It was rubbish. Sand that, spray the underside of that... Rubbish.
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EvoDelta
6,075 posts
60 months
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I did a week with an insolvency practitioner, and a week with an anti-counterfeiting private investigator.
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Ben Jk
629 posts
36 months
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I did mine at a pond company at the local garden centre. (Bents if anyone is in the North West, as its well known) I enjoyed it but we were treated like s  t. Remember cleaning out the "rubbish pile" out the back which was full of dead fish and dead rats. One of my fellow work experiencers ended up in tears several times.
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LouD86
1,314 posts
23 months
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I worked for a company called WASP (Wessex Advanced Switching Products?)
They make the timer and switching products for lots of things, in amongst bomb timers and missle switches for the forces! Was very interesting. Two weeks there, one day on factory floor, the rest of the time in the CAD office, taking drawings from paper, to Autocad, to actually be produced! I managed ot sneakily get one out too!!
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Fun Bus
12,623 posts
88 months
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I did mine at Graypaul Ferrari when they were in Loughborough.
I also had a stint in the workshops at Sytner BMW in Nottingham.
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melvster
5,508 posts
55 months
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3 Weeks work placement with Bentley Motors, they were currently in the process of producing the Conti SuperSports, had a passenger ride in the very first SuperSports.
Also worked at a Cheshire based Ferrari and Porsche specialist, JMH Automotive, thoroughly enjoyed that and went in a few tasty motors.
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Ben Jk
629 posts
36 months
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I blatently didn't plan mine well enough did I!!!
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Changedmyname
4,968 posts
51 months
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Don't remember anything like that in the 70s.
I mean we had a labour exchange in those days FFS.
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GTIR
Original Poster
19,228 posts
136 months
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Bloody hell. I had a s t job in comparison! It'll be interesting to know if anyone was interested enough to take up that career where they spent that few weeks and indeed if you had a really s t job, like me, if you're indeed in a s t job now! (like me)
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TheHeretic
69,407 posts
125 months
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Ben Jk said: I blatently didn't plan mine well enough did I!!! Same here! 
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Skodasupercar
470 posts
47 months
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I spent two weeks helping to pilot Thames river cruisers around the maidenhead stretch.
Was a great laugh and had a fantastic time. Had nothing to do with anything I wanted to do, but the opportunity came up, so I did it!
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Kays vRS
1,529 posts
46 months
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I requested to work in a local garden centre or pet shop as that was the kind of thing I was interested in. Instead, they sent me to the accounts office at a lingerie factory. The only useful thing about it was that I learnt to how use an electric typewriter...
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melvster
5,508 posts
55 months
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GTIR said: Bloody hell. I had a s t job in comparison! It'll be interesting to know if anyone was interested enough to take up that career where they spent that few weeks and indeed if you had a really s t job, like me, if you're indeed in a s t job now! (like me) I wanted to work for Bentley, applied for an I.T/Technical Apprenticeship, made it to the final 6 and did not get the job, they took one person on, there was roughly 350 applicants for that job, gutted was not the word. Now currently doing an I.T and Business Apprenticeship with the UK's largest domestic cleaning company, Maid2Clean, did not expect it to be much but i thought, why not see what it is like, went for an interview and was told on the same day i got the job.
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Glade
2,259 posts
93 months
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Shadowed..RAF herc pilot.
Including going on night time air to air refuelling training. We were on the receiving end!
Was awesome.
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Marf
22,907 posts
111 months
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I spent two weeks at an independent computer shop being taught how to fix and build computers. Loved every minute of it
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