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Work experience at school
Posted by Nick NBH on 31/5/2026, 22:18:11
What did you end up doing?
Did a week at Britannia airlines at Luton. Bi tof admin stuff, saw the planning for the England euros flights, did the emergency exit stuff (which translated as pissing about on the emergency exit slides), flew a couple of full size simulators (yes killed everyone on board) and got a day trip to greece in the cockpit (didn`t leave the plane)
Re: Work experience at school
Posted by Fife Hatter on 1/6/2026, 19:31:44, in reply to "Work experience at school" Come on England
Supposed to be bricklaying but ended up on the hod for the two weeks. I'd already done similar with plasterers so compared to that it was a piece of piss. Fair play to them they paid me in cash and got me pissed as a fart on my last day.
If you were stream 1 (mainly GCE) you stayed at school and cracked on
If you were stream 2 (mainly CSE) you got to do Work Experience.
Sad really as it would have been great to experience work at that age. (Although I did have a paper round, and do occasional part time work at the Queensway Hall)
I didn't do work experience not sure it was going when I was at school I left in 1977.
The last two years at school I bunked off loads and worked on Shanleys site in HR and then at Marsh farm. Was hoddy for plasterers at 14,/15, the hod was as big as me. I got good money for a kid and gave me good grounding.
Went out with one of the staff in their Land Rover (with their dog) each day, walked a footpath and made a note of any obstructions, then filed a report.
Didn't sort my own so was allocated by the school, ended up in inland revenue office (quadrant house) Dunstable. As a very quiet unwilling to talk to anyone 15 year old the worst decision they made was putting me on the sodding switchboard on day 2!
Apologies to everyone that was cut off for the following two days!
Are you sure that you aren't still working for them - if they can't answer a question, they say that they will put you on hold and then, a few seconds later, the call gets cut off.
Spent a week in the recruitment department at Luton Town. We would all have to write random names on scraps of paper, and fold 4 times. On the Friday we would load all the names into the a Tombola, and at the end of the day the Tombola was spun and the head of department pulled out 6 names.
To my knowledge work experience placements are still employed.
Did 2 weeks in a mental asylum, always remember this guy in there had no shoelaces and claimed he was a pilot for Dan Air flying Concorde exclusively from Luton airport
Did a week at British Rail Engineering Limited in Derby. Spent the week doing stuff refurbishing Land Rover engines or something. Really boring tbh. However, I wasted most of the first morning falling for the oldest practical joke in the book: the guy who was in charge of me asked me to go to the far end of the workshop and the bloke for the long wait. I presumed he meant long weight! .Live justly, love mercy, perpetuate generosity, walk humbly.
Glass hammer always caught out people at cabinet makers in London as a teen!
I fooled for the long wait/weight one when I worked for Barings bank on bishopsgate/liverpool st. I was a teen messenger and told to go for a long wait (?!) at one of the directors offices 🤪
He was tapping away at pc.. chatting to me you watching football this weekend “boy”? Small talk and he was pleased to hear I supported Luton who were play semi v Chelsea 1994. As he was as a QPR fan. beat that “shit team from West London please!” He also spoke about an emerging talent called Kevin Gallen at QPR who banged ina silly amount of goals, although he said he would be England’s future number 9!
He was a top man, down to earth..said..ok now you’ve had a long enough wait back to work “boy” 🤭 felt a right pillock haha
” He also spoke about an emerging talent called Kevin Gallen at QPR who banged ina silly amount of goals, although he said he would be England’s future number 9!
You worked for joey diconio on your work experience
Could have been worse btw, it could have been for a bucket of blue steam. Or a non return valve for shit release pipe (I saw through that one straight away).
I saw a young lad (I was out of ‘my time’) coerced into blowing down a few pieces of pipe, different diameter, in order to establish if there was anything blocking them prior to installation. He didn’t know (I did, obviously) that the ends of the pipe had a wet lick of red paint around them.
Whilst I wasn’t accused of the being the ringleader I did receive a verbal warning
Carriage Works (Litchurch Lane) or the Loco Works?
I served my apprenticeship with BREL (though not in Derby). Excellent training on the back of which I’ve travelled the world and been accepted as a skilled migrant in a faraway land. An internationally recognised qualification though I haven’t worked in any related railway industry since..
Well no one actually seemed to know! We were dropped off at the Railway Technical Centre on London Road but no one had a clue what we were doing or where we were supposed to be. Sone phone calls were made before we walked over to the old loco works near where the old roundhouse was. All long since flattened and part of Pride Park now. Well the roundhouse is still there as a listed building but the shop me and my mate were in i think is now part of Hudson Way. This was back in the late 1980s.Live justly, love mercy, perpetuate generosity, walk humbly.
At a chemists wearing a white jacket with old ladies asking me what pile cream they should buy whilst still smelling of booze and ciggies from the night before.
My pharmacy when I lived in Portsmouth was city centre. The druggies woudl eb coming in to see if their next hit was ready and got told "no you have one this morning..come back tomorrow"
Spent a week in an office with some odd bloke who got me to file stuff which was total shit and then after that another week going out with a contract manager to various building sites which was quality. He used to buy me stuff at greasy spoons every day.outlaws is not the barometer of sanity. You're either Luton full tilt or you are nothing. We have spunked way too much money on shite. The end.
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on 31/5/2026, 22:18:11
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