FabSwingers.com forum: Who remembers going to see the careers officer

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What did u want to be??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

no.

i remember being given a ucas book at the age of 17 and having to makr a decision without knowing anything..

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Nurse in the navy

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Dinosaur!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I really wanted to join the RAF as a air traffic controller but my lifestyle was definitely not compatible with the forces back then

Failing that I wanted go into childcare but careers advisor said no one would employ men (as I was then) so I was stuck between two things I really wanted , neither of which I could do because of who I was.

I need up going from factory job to factory job with no real direction until I found my current role almost by chance

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

"I really wanted to join the RAF as a air traffic controller but my lifestyle was definitely not compatible with the forces back then

I need up going from factory job to factory job with no real direction until I found my current role almost by chance "

I always planned to join the RAF, but I was put off after being bullied out of the Air Training Corps. I'm too old now and with a "history of depression" they wouldn't have me anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I always planned to join the RAF, but I was put off after being bullied out of the Air Training Corps. I'm too old now and with a "history of depression" they wouldn't have me anyway."

Oh bless you, I was in the Cadets too. So sorry you had a bad time in there. I had a great time until I aged out as a CWO. Nothing they could do when I was a youth cadet, but no way they would have had me as an adult instructor/officer

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

I remember seeing one once......

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

"I always planned to join the RAF, but I was put off after being bullied out of the Air Training Corps. I'm too old now and with a "history of depression" they wouldn't have me anyway.

Yes well, it was one particular arsehole who loved the power. Needless to say, that particular arsehole is now a copper.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I think they suggested I become an accountant.

*runs screaming into the night*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Crikey that takes me back! One came to our school and I said I wanted to maybe go into catering as I didn't know what else to say

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Crikey that takes me back! One came to our school and I said I wanted to maybe go into catering as I didn't know what else to say

Mine gave me a personality test.

I think I broke it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Crikey that takes me back! One came to our school and I said I wanted to maybe go into catering as I didn't know what else to say

Mine gave me a personality test.

I think I broke it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Army careers office at 16 only one I went to joined as a medic 1989

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

We didn't have an advisor. We did get asked to fill in a bunch of questions on a computer and it spat out a list of suggested occupations. Vet came out top for me. That was what I wanted to do anyway. It did also list "grave digger" for anyone who said they would enjoy working outdoors, which we all found pretty amusing at the time.

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Truro

I said I wanted to work for the RSPCA - they told me I had no chance & to consider joining the army (great help!)

I'd love to meet that chap now & tell them who I work for & what career I'm in (& who I have worked for!)

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"We didn't have an advisor. We did get asked to fill in a bunch of questions on a computer and it spat out a list of suggested occupations. Vet came out top for me. That was what I wanted to do anyway. It did also list "grave digger" for anyone who said they would enjoy working outdoors, which we all found pretty amusing at the time. "

I had what sounds like similar questions, but done by hand with a career officer to interpret it.

The career officer didn't like my answers much

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"What did u want to be?? "

Apparently scoring the winning goal for Arsenal in a cup final was not a “career option”… the bastards

Seriously though… all I look at is what I needed to do to get to university…. My career officers almost laughed at that as much as the “scoring the winning goal for Arsenal in the cup final” option

Anyway.. got there… 2 double degree later… god why do we not have a “2 fingers” emoji

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By *onewolf444Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

I remember a careers advisor but think they suggested thinking what I want to do. It was a few years ago now.

Even if I went to a careers advisor now I'm not sure what I want to be.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The Careers Officer at the school I attended had no qualifications for this position and no interest whatsoever in carrying out this function.

He was utterly useless, and had a reputation that preceded him; I went through the motions in his office and made up a BS career I had absolutely no interest in pursuing.

I just went and did my own thing, and was successful.

Education nowadays is more refined, and vastly more professional; because the environment is competitive

Life has been an education and the Careers Officer played no part in it; none

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By *for2Man
over a year ago

Bristol

Mine was another power tripper. He told me I'd never get a job because I wasn't applying myself to find out what I was going to do. Told him I already had a job as a game warden at a safari park. He told me to stop making things up, so I showed him my job acceptance letter for when I turned 16, he hated that, took all his power away

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

We got given a huge book of careers and told to look through it.

By huge I mean huge.

I got to barrister, got fed up reading and said that's the one for me.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Only careers office I saw, was the Royal Navy careers officer.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"What did u want to be??

Apparently scoring the winning goal for Arsenal in a cup final was not a “career option”… the bastards

Anyway.. got there… 2 double degree later… god why do we not have a “2 fingers” emoji "

Boom

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