Adult case studies
Nine case studies of adults aged 19 to 60+
- Emma, 19 year old
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...Emma wants to return to residential social work, but feels that it would be hard to survive on the wages.
- Isabel, aged 56
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...I got a secondment from a London Borough to do a one year training for careers. Then worked in and around the London Boroughs for a few years until I spotted a job as careers adviser at a Polytechnic. Got the job, but within year (cuts!), I was ‘redeployed’ to teaching – which I stayed with for 22 years!
- Philip, aged 23
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...went into the Army at 16, with 4 good 'O' level grades in maths, physics, chemistry and geography and successfully completed an apprenticeship in electronic engineering.
- Gillian, aged 33
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...completed a two year course in Beauty Therapy and quickly got a job in a 'Hair and Beauty' saloon in the West End of London. After 9 months, she left and set up on her own, working in clients' homes. She established a clientele, and worked successfully for 18 months.
- Heather, aged 30+
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...When leaving school, I was encouraged and inspired by my own careers adviser and at that point felt the job had many of the characteristics that would appeal to me...
- Joan, aged 46
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...Joan had hoped that her present job as an administrative secretary in an FE College would be one that she could have stayed with for a year or two.
- Robert, aged 60+
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...In 1945 I passed Rab Butler's new 11+. Everybody was surprised – 'Why Bobby?'. Why indeed? I had just-as-bright – and brighter – cousins and neighbours. But I was the first in the neighbourhood to get to grammar school.
- Mary, aged 50+
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...I decided whilst at a traditional girls grammar school that I wasn't too bright so wouldn't bother with HE. I went to see a careers advisor to get some information on being a hotel receptionist, which I thought was pretty glamerous!
- Pauline, aged 40+
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...In common with many of my friends, my first career idea was to train as a teacher. This could be attributed to the fact that the Careers Adviser who worked in the Girl's High School that I attended only had three alternatives to discuss with us.
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