3 hours and 38 minutes left of friday work experience.

(i feel very connected to gen z rn, counting down the minutes i can leave)

Work Experience 7x02: Builder

Working in fast food isn’t for the weak hearted, upon walking in you’re introduced to the constant drama on the daily. Welcome to Love & Hip Pop Popeyes edition. Here I can drop the location but best believe I’m not holding back from speaking on fake bitches.

I’m literally falling asleep at my desk HELP

i can’t find any place to do FUCKING WORK EXPERIENCE everytime I looks somewhere their like oh you can only do it if your __ years old. AHHHJ

i have to find work experience because my school does this thing where for a week you go work somewhere. AND I CANT FUCKING FIND ANYWHERE TO WORK

Rhod being given 29 minutes to deep clean a room and then… yeah.

Getting ready to do work experience in July and im just constantly thinking

SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT. I’ll have to talk to people. Talk to strangers. Do new things. AHHHHHHHHHHHH. I can guarantee there will be many tears (more than usual).

I hate my brain. It needs to work normally. Let me do the stuff I need to do and literally everyone else does with ease God dammit.

All had subterranean experience.

“Deeper” - Jeff Long

Cute dogs and cats alert

i just booked all my flights and hotels for my 2026 work experience and i don’t even know if it’s still happening,why is the media accreditation reply schedule so shit. LET ME KNOWWWW

Tweaking bc today at work the girl i was working with was like

“Why’d you txt the boss I was on call with my boyfriend”

LIKE BITCH I don’t know how tf they found out, or who told them but it sure as fuck wasnt me. I could give less fucks as long as you arent sitting on your ass.

THEN SHE WAS LIKE “They told me it was you.” EXCUSE. ME. I DIDNT DO SHIT WHY ARE THEY THROWING ME UNDER THE BUS IM NO SNITCH 😭

Litterally fear im never getting over this.

When you’re an ambitious person, finding success in your career might be the only thing you’re focused on right now. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in or what your overall career goals are, it’s always important for you to take steps to get to where you want to be. But when you’re just getting started, or you’re not really sure what that looks like, it can feel overwhelming. So in this blog post, we’re going to take a look at exactly what you need to do to find success in your chosen career. Let’s get into it.

1. Pinpoint Exactly What You Want

The best place to get started is always with deciding what you want. When you want to find success in your career, you need to identify what that looks like. After all, if you don’t know what the destination looks like, you have no hope of getting there. So this is where you have to sit down and really think through what your career goals are, and you have to be specific. When you pinpoint exactly what you want, you can then figure out how you’re going to make it happen.

2. Create a Career Plan

When you’re much clearer on what you want, you can then start to create your career plan. Sometimes you’ll do this together. Writing an action plan is a very simple way for you to figure out what steps you need to take to get to where you want to be. This can be very powerful when it comes to your career. It gives you the time and space to think through the different things that you may need to work on in order to reach your goals and find success in your career.

3. Get More Experience

When it comes to some of the points that you want to put on your action plan, specifically, one of them may be to get more experience. Whether you have thought through a five-year or 10-year (or even longer) career plan, it’s important to make sure that you know how to develop and grow in order to reach a more senior role. If you’re just starting out, getting more experience, or even getting an internship, could be the first step for you.

4. Go Back to School

Depending on your specific situation and what your overall goals are, you may want to go back to school. If you are considering getting your graduate degree or even a PhD, now is the time to do it. In some industries, this will be essential. But maybe you’re looking to get more of an academic foundation to help you progress. So, looking into starting your applications will be important for you here.

5. Focus on Advancing Your Specific Skills

However, not every career or specific job role will require you to have an advanced degree. You may find that you need more specific and specialised skills to advance in your industry. When that’s the case, you need to look into vocational skills and accreditations to help you progress. For example, courses like the TABC certification online course can help you look more attractive to employers. Any certifications and skills that give you an edge in your specific industry will help you to progress in your career.

66. Go Above and Beyond

But it’s not just about the actions you take in terms of advancing your skills. You also need to make sure that your behavior and your commitment to your career are showing. This is why going above and beyond and going the extra mile at work can really pay off. Ultimately, to progress, you need to stand out as one to watch. You need to get your boss’s attention and show them that you want more.

7. Network

Another really powerful thing you can do here is make sure that you are networking. Even if you’re introverted and the idea of meeting new people isn’t really your thing, networking can be a really important part of progressing in your career. You never know who you might meet or what opportunities may come your way. This could be the key to advancing in your industry.

8. Do Your Own Thing

However, it can also be really fun to think outside the box and do your own thing here. After all, when there are a lot of great candidates who want to do well in your industry, you need to stand out in some way. Looking to do your own thing and start a side hustle that gets attention could be just what you need. And, you never know, it may even end up with you starting your own business in the future.

9. Build a Personal Brand

You’ll also find that it’s really important for you to be able to build a personal brand. We live in an age where we all have access to the internet, and we’re able to make an impression on future employers and leading experts in our industry. You don’t have to be a top CEO or a famous celebrity to get attention. If you want people to start taking notice, then building a personal brand online and establishing yourself as an expert as early as possible can help you to do this and get ahead in your career.

10. Be Confident, Determined, and Ambitious

Ultimately, you need to make sure that you’re being as confident, determined, and ambitious as possible. When you want to succeed in your career and you have huge goals, it’s important for you to go after what you want. If you’re too shy or you’re keeping yourself small, this can feel hard for you to do. But that attitude will keep you smaller and exactly where you are for longer. Building up your confidence, even if you have to fake it till you make it, and being determined to get where you want to be is key here. It’s often that determination and drive that will make it all happen for you.

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Currently waiting for an email back abt work experience, wish me luck

Eating popping candy during my work experience lunch break yay

Comedy Classics

The Office (2001)

S1E2 “Work Experience”

Me when Im gonna be employed next week

Work Experience: Are working class kids at a disadvantage?

Students in the UK spend more or less fifteen years in school, preparing for the world of work. Yet, it would seem that in the final stretch of this journey, the working class students are being let down. 

Work experience is one of those things that you hear more and more as your education progresses, along with babble about GCSEs, A Levels, College, Personal Statements, Open Days, and so on. But if the whole duration of school is for the purpose of preparing children for their desired career in the ever-impenetrable world of work, why is work experience so hard to find?

UCAS’s website tells us that ‘Work experience is a perfect way to help make those all-important decisions that could determine your future!’. While it isn’t mandatory, its one of those things that (in theory) help you stand out, or else decide what career you’ve been working towards for the past fifteen years. Its one of those things that you’re expected to find, even if its not compulsory. But if this is the case, why is one of those things so difficult to find?

According to a 2024 report from the Key Group, only around 49% of Year Tens in the UK do work experience, and within that only 2% attend it for more than two weeks. 14-15 is the earlier bracket for finding work experience, and it might be a good idea to do so before GCSEs and A Levels or College weighs you down and takes up all your time. Evidently, this so-called valuable experience isn’t as simple as approaching X field and asking to shadow someone. Of course, obtaining work experience will have varying levels of difficulty depending on what field it is you’re interested in. Unsurprisingly, it’s easier to convince someone to let you into an office than it is a hospital. 

The school work starts piling up once you reach 14, and if you’re taking your education seriously, you’ll notice your window of free time is shrinking. Students across the board will struggle with homework, revision, maybe clubs or hobbies, or extensive travelling to and from school (not to mention the 19% of pupils with SEN needs, or the estimated 128,000 with carer responsibilities in England and Wales alone). Squeezing work experience into all of this, along with enough breaks for socialising and mental health, is a Herculean task.

Often, obtaining work experience boils down to who you know. Strangers are unlikely to welcome untrained, unsure children into their workplace, or even if they wanted to, you’re hard pressed to find someone who has the time for that mentorship, let alone two weeks. Knowing people in the industry you’re interested in makes the process that much easier, which leads me onto the main point: Are working class students at a disadvantage?

Any student can and probably will face difficulty in this area, but for the demographic of kids that don’t have the same links and contacts as others, work experience becomes harder to find. Its not a secret that grammar and private schools are by nature pretty exclusive, with parents and family members usually making up the workforce of those desirable, high-end jobs. 

And good for them. 

But therein lies the problem for the working class; If you’re looking into a career outside of your class bracket, finding a way in is infinitely more difficult. Even with all the help from parents, friends, teachers and so on, working class children remain at a disadvantage academically; A 2022/2023 report from the House of Commons library claims that only 49% of State school students have started higher education by the time they’re 25. It’s clear that if less than half are able to obtain higher education, a boost as valuable as work experience is much needed. 

But its simply not available for them.

So, what can be done?

For starters, among many, many improvements that must be made to public education in the UK, more needs to be done to directly help students interested in work experience. Granted, not everyone knows what they want to do at that age, which is perfectly normal too, so in turn the government needs to step up and find a way to enable schools to help students realise those important decisions. Schools should provide guidance, not just a list of things to do. How much funding and training they receive (or pointedly don’t) is another issue entirely.

For those looking for work experience, I’d advise the following:

• Look at local businesses 
• Attend Seminars/courses frequently held over the summer
• Always check company websites for opportunities
• Take the nepotism route if you must, ask relatives/people you know
• Think about how your hobbies or interests can be applied as practical skills

Or you can do what I’ve done and start an amateur blog to put on the CV.

Sources: 

• UCAS Website: https://www.ucas.com/applying/applying-to-university/work-experience-and-volunteering
• The Key Group: https://thekeygroup.com/news-insights/less-than-half-of-all-gcse-pupils-do-work-experience
• GOV.UK: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england/2024-25
• CarersUK: https://www.carersuk.org/media/ocxheq2c/facts-about-carers-dec-2024-final.pdf
• House of Commons Library: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7857/

My Experience as an Amazon DSP Driver

So I’ve been in need of a job and I applied to work for Amazon delivering packages. After a single day of experience, I already want to quit. Here is my experience so far:

• The hours are long. I knew that going in, that it would be a ten hour shift starting at 11. What I wasn’t prepared for is that this meant that three hours of my shift would be after dark. The job gets much harder at that point; night driving is difficult enough without reversing up unpaved rural drives and walking across unlit roads.
• The volume of work expected from you is herculean. A reduced “nursery route” had me moving over two hundred packages in a day. It’s hard to describe the level of hustle needed to meet quota. Nobody takes their allocated breaks. This is the sort of job that would suit you if you didn’t eat, didn’t sleep, had four arms, and drove like a maniac.
• I hadn’t faced any open transphobia like at my last job. Instead I’ve had to deal with being constantly deadnamed by the gig work app that Amazon uses to manage deliveries. I could not, unlike any other job I’ve ever worked, get the right name on my badge. It’s honestly a much greater indignity to forcibly misgender yourself on company software while half a dozen apologetic faces tell you that there isn’t anything they can do about it. I’ll take the co-worker who smugly calls me “he” any day.
• The reliance on apps and cell phones for work is a huge hindrance. Sometimes the software slows down and I’ll just have to pull over and wait for it to load. You’re expected to communicate with dispatch using your personal phone which is complicated by the fact that you can’t touch it while driving. God, I miss CB radio and paper manifests.
• If it hasn’t been clear yet, workers are encouraged to cut corners constantly. There are a variety of safety standards that you need to ignore to meet quota. This is coupled with an extremely draconian safety policy from the DSP in which a single violation can have you suspended, enforced my an in-van camera. What this results in is workers gaming the system to drive their route as quickly as possible while specifically avoiding anything that would alert the cameras.

I’ve never gone from starting a job to wanting to quit so quickly. Do not work as a DSP driver. And if you do, be a Teamsters salt. I think unionization is the only thing that could save this wretched job.

[WORK EXPERIENCE] Retail Assistant at POPULAR Bookstore

I worked at Popular from December 2024 to April 2025. During my duration of work, I learnt how to handle incoming stock and verify that all goods were correctly processed.

At times, there could be over 40 boxes of goods that I had to sign and check over which could quickly become overwhelming if I didn’t work fast and efficiently. Ensuring all stock was accounted for really elevated my organisational and time-management skills.

My other responsibilities included the timely processing of returns, price tagging the merchandise and subsequently organising all items onto their respective shelves.

Also, I provided daily customer service support, both in-person and via phone. There were many interactions with impatient and impolite customers but I learnt how to stay calm and composed when dealing with them, which was mentally challenging but ultimately helped me become more resilient.

Lastly, I assisted the store during their annual stocktake and gained foundational experience using the SAP system to check goods availability and inventory levels.

Through the many learning experiences I went through working at Popular, I gained an abundance of insightful knowledge and skills that will continue to help me in my future. Most importantly, I made some very meaningful friendships with my coworkers that continue to last to this day :)