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SamJ
May 3 2008, 12:04 AM
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Hey guys,

I'm coming to the end of high school (age 11-16) and was wondering what you guys did when you finished your GCSE's because I'm really not sure what I want to do.

Did you do A-levels? College? Leave education and get a job? University degree?

Did anyone here do Music or Music tech A-level? What does it comprise of?

Yeah, so, what did you guys do to get where you are now?

Thanks! wink.gif

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Chris Evans
May 4 2008, 11:39 AM
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I left school at 16, I left with 8 CSE`s (my year was the last year before they introduced GCSE`s) the usual topics maths, English, Geography, music etc but I hated every minute of school and couldnt wait to leave, I left and went straight to work, my first job was at an engineering firm where I did day releases to college to learn welding/fabrication and auto electricians course (unfortunatly something thats pretty worthless in the modern day cars with their plug n play diagnostic machines) I did that for 8 years till I was made redundent then decided I wanted to do something "cleaner" and went into sales, I `ve done various sales jobs from selling roofing products to selling cars for Honda & Toyota till finally finding the job that I`m at now, I`ve been here 8 years now and started off doing "in house selling" which meant endless phone calls to different companies, through a series of changes within the company (Iwork at an Oil depot thats a satellite depot for the main company) I was made up to the Depot Manager and now I do that and took a course in Occupational Health & Safety and do that now as well for the whole company, pretty boring but its well paid, my school qualifications have never been a part of any job I`ve gone for, its all been based as Andrew said on recent experience etc and what work I`d done before, in sales its generally down to a "proven" history.

Sometimes I wish maybe that I`d done more, college etc, but back then at 16 I hated the whole "school" thing and I never would have stuck at it.

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- Sam Hook   What Did You Do When You Left School?   May 3 2008, 12:04 AM
- - DeepRoots   I went on to do A-levels, though its been the most...   May 3 2008, 12:12 AM
- - tonymiro   I spent a year in the far east and then came back ...   May 3 2008, 01:43 AM
|- - Sircraigery   QUOTE (tonymiro @ May 3 2008, 01:43 AM) I...   May 3 2008, 06:08 AM
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- - Zephyr   Well, I'm nearing the end of high school mysel...   May 3 2008, 02:23 AM
|- - Andrew Cockburn   For me, A Levels (Maths, Phys, Chem) and then a de...   May 3 2008, 03:05 AM
|- - Moon Boots   QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ May 3 2008, 03:0...   May 3 2008, 09:38 AM
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- - Nathan333   I'm nearing the end of school as well, I'm...   May 4 2008, 11:17 AM
- - Nemanja Filipovic   Paying with my band,and working on my solo album.   May 4 2008, 11:17 AM
- - mattacuk   When I was 16 i left school and worked in Mc Donal...   May 4 2008, 11:41 AM
- - Ivan Milenkovic   It is important to really get to know your educati...   May 4 2008, 01:45 PM
- - OrganisedConfusion   I went onto doing A Levels in Computing, Maths, El...   May 4 2008, 01:47 PM
- - kevin-riff-after-riff   i am a year away from your situation, i still dont...   May 4 2008, 06:50 PM
- - Sam Hook   Cool, thanks guys for the interesting responses an...   May 4 2008, 07:47 PM
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