I think this is where we have hit a wall of realisation . . . she has been trying the smaller establishments that she is interested in, and they are not keen on taking on a 14 year old if they don't have to. . . not least because of the insurance issue.
I am in London, but in Croydon. I don't really want her getting the train/tube/bus into the centre every day.
She's tried all the local ones. Retail are not happy about taking on anyone under 18.
I hear that. The one thing I did impress on her was that I left it too late and was placed in a pottery at the end of my road. I still remember it as the most mind numbingly boring and lonely week of my life, (and I have worked in a cheese factory loading cheese on the same machine for 9 hours straight). Another kid at school who was a bit more of a swat picked a place himself very early on. A guitar shop in Trowbridge. He hung around in an electric guitar shop and recording studio all week and got given a guitar on the Friday. Arrrrhhhh. I'm still jealous . He a flipping top university professor in Japan now. Not just a professor, but a professor in another language. . . . and he has a free guitar.
it's 7 months away, plan in hope that the hellscape will be over by then
Online PA to someone else in the family? It would be niegh impossible to find a job as a 14 yr old, maybe voluenter at the animal shelter or the air cadets/ Girl guides?
It seems highly unlikely, but also, because of this covid she has not had the independence to get used to travelling alone, and probably won't before the time comes.
That os a great idea. I have put it to her, but for some reason she hates it. I am making her just look it up and find out about it now. I think she thinks I just want her to do it because a lot of people there do music.
well, the school will probably have a backup supply of shit drudge stuff for all the kids who don't arrange anything themselves, she can probably just do that.
Animal shelter is good.
Is it not all going to be shut drudge stuff wherever kids end up?
Both my work experience stints - in a primary school office in high school, and in a local branch of the civil service in sixth form - were a laugh tbf. The sixth form one at least partly because I went and smoked weed with some crusties in town every lunchtime and was baked for the afternoon shift, admittedly.
She's 13, so she probably hates it because you suggested it
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I did make this point. She still sneered.She's 13, so she probably hates it because you suggested it
There are more people there who don't do music.
Where I used to work, we would get work experience pupils who had a parent working at the organisation all the time. We would not place them in the same department as their parent, but often departments were given no notice to plan a placement for someone coming on the Monday.
Well yes. . . . and after we have found them the school check out all the places the pupils find. I assume that many places will be found to be inappropriate.
Having spoken to previous work experience people I worked with, often placements were primary school, supermarkets or care homes, along with the engineering company I worked at.
That is not an option, it is not up to her when she does it, it is up to the the school/ the government. The placement takes place when she is 14.
Another reason it's madness.
Which she can't do according to the school because I'm her relative. I also can't accomodate her anyway because my job is single person and quite intense.
