Never had any career advice when I was at school, it was always assumed that you would take “A” levels and go on to Uni. I left school the day I finished my last “O” level, started as a “Youth in Training” with the then GPO Telephones and never looked back.
Always wondered if it were possible to become a Careers Advisor, with never actually ever having had one!
I think the school staff had a quick meeting and decided who is going to do the careers thingy this week 
When I left school at 15 it was a given that all the blokes went down the pit. and the women went to work in shops or stayed at home and raised the kids.
And look what the future had in store for both the mine workers and the women ,
The only “careers” advice we got was you either worked in the local tobacco factory or went into an office. (I did both, worked in the office of the tobacco factory!)
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In the name of net zero and going green thousands of miners lost their jobs and devastated communities. The internet and AI will finish off the rest of the hard working British people and turn us into a third world country. There’s no going back now… 
We’re doomed I tell ya!
FWIW I got an electrical engineering degree and continued to that until I retired. Maybe I’m the odd one out…
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Hi
I couldn’t agree more,
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What about those through no falt of their own lost a lot of education and did not get a chance of making lost school time up ? No GCE of any kind for them,
This is were the so called career masters should have come into practice,
To give these people hope for the future,
There were a lot of hopeless cases daniel, that is unfortunate.
If they have a job, they can attend evening classes to get any degree they like. If they are between jobs, they get a grant, all kinds of support, and could attend classes during the day.
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It’s all about the motivation, the career advisors never mentioned that!!
They never seemed that motivated
In1960 when I left school the local youth employment office only offered me a job in the services, IE army etc. they actually said to me you find a job and we will see if it is suitable.
Could have been worse RS, they might have said, take this job or be conscripted 
Well I also joined the Army 15 years service and i learned a lot and saw a lot,
attended a few funnerals of friends who did give all and learned how many people in the Army became a loner in a crowd,
Again you have to be able to want to give and learn,
I can honestly say the Army is not a job, you not only work with your mates, You live with them ,
you share your spare times together, Laugh and cry together, and in a lot of cases you see your mates having mental break downs due to the sights they see,
Suicide was something else you tend to come across, the Lads that had just had enough,
I was very lucky i met my wife and inspite of my promotion and my life style, I decided to leave and we would start a new life, one we’re i had no need to look under my car, being weary of of people,
and the wanting to both share a life and love this woman I called my wife, 57yrs ago and I can be honest and say she is still every thing to me, So Yes I did get something out of the Army;
Yes it is true you join as a Lad and very quickly you become a man,
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Good post Daniel…
Now that industry has been farmed out to other countries, the army, or one of the other forces would be a perfect place for the young people of today, to be guided into a world of independence and adulthood.
I never had any advice about jobs from anyone. Just started working in a low-paid factory job making the basic chassis needed for telephone answering machines. Then it was on to being a low-paid apprentice TV engineer for 5 years. 
My Father had been a Major in the army and my brother became a radar technician in the RAF. I would have liked to do something similar but was an asthmatic. Although never given a medical for joining up, I got convinced that it would have been pointless, so it was the workplace for me. Not too sad about that but wouldn’t have minded joining the Forces.
Our Son carried on the tradition for me. He was in the Engineers for 12 years(I think it was) and then came out to be a much sought-after software writer.
Did you smoke
No - but I did receive a free pack of 20 cigarettes every week which I passed on to my Dad!
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