(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I'm 15 and I'm in Year 10. I'm starting work experience in a couple of months and I just wanted to know how you did doing work experience. I believe the American term for "work experience" is "internship" or something along those lines. I also have a couple of questions. Q1, is it true that you can get paid minimum wage in certain jobs you do for work experience? Q2, how was it? Did you gain a valuble lesson into real hard life?

I did mine last year and i loved it ... although i never got paid it has made me want to become what i did in work experience as my future job ( Football coach) Best 2 weeks of my school live ... what are you working as?

I want to be an eletrical engineer or oil engineer. Probably the first one seeing as oil will run out, but then again, I would get more money for being an oil engineer. Well I want to get my hands dirty, I don't want to sit on my arse all day munching donuts in my spinny chair watching softcore porn and wishing I had picked engineering.

i LoL'd ... thats exactly what im thinking ... i would hate to be sitting on my arse all day

I did my work experience at woolworths lolcat. It wasn't bad, it will probably boost your confidence for getting a job later on. And yeah some places did pay people on work experience, I didn't get payed though

I'm from UK as well, I'm in year 11 and I did my work experience last year. The most important thing is PICK YOUR OWN PLACEMENT !!!! I didn't pick mine and so the people who run work experience choose a placement for you based around what you would like and what are you would like it to be in. I got put in Boots on a high street and it was complete and utter 5#!T. I had to read like 8 books on how on health and safety like, how to pick up boxes without injuring yourself, what fire extinguisher to use for certain fires, etc. The manager then made me walk around for an hour mesmerizing the whole store so that I could tell a customer where everything was. After mesmerizing the whole store floor. He then put me in the back room and made me sort out the whole stock cupboard into alphabetical order, once I had done that he made me stack shelves with the things I had just sorted out which he then made me do for the next two days, just stack shelves :|... I then started turning up like two hours late because it was 5#!T xD and leaving at lunch lol... The next day I come in and he started having a go at me and then I got sacked lol which was actually pretty funny because he literally started shouting at me from point blank and I started laughing so I got sacked. After the two weeks of work experience ,where I only done 3 days and played COD for the rest, everybody who chose their own placement like paintballing, beauty shops, gyms, kids kingdom, bowling all seemed to have had a pretty good time. You MUST MUST MUST choose your own placement !! Most people that did well and had nice managers and staff got paid, or got presents, or offered Saturday / Full-Time jobs for when we leave.

Sadly, I hear that its mostly business-type of work that pays. Life is so unfair sometimes

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I bet Boots was shit lol. And I was going to pick what I wanted to do for myself. I don't let shit tell me what I do. I might do a bit of building work for my work experience. There's a whole estate being built just over the road from my house, so if I can, I might go there. I'm not looking forward to the cheesy 80's music and builder's crack's though. I'd still rather do that, than work in Boots, or any other business-type of work.

I never got round to picking what I wanted to do so I just let them do it. Everybody that went to gyms, paintballing, and other schools enjoyed theirs. One of my friends went round trying to find one with the minimum hours and days and eventually found one that was 2days a week from 12 to 3 lol. Painballing is one of the best ones because you become one of the marshals so you get to reload the CO2, work the shooting range, and join in the action with others lol.