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Author:  pcernie [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:12 am ]
Post subject:  Career advice for seven-year-olds
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8322627.stm

Can't say I've any problems with that so long as it's done in a meaningful and useful way...
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
Is this going to be like the useless careers advice we got in secondary school?
Only useful if you want a minimum wage job or if you want to be pushed onto the latest fad (ie useless) government training scheme?
Author:  ethelredalready [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
Complete waste of time. Lets go back to the old system, where the lower orders just did what their parents did, and, more importabtly, as they were told!
Author:  james016 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
When I was 7, me and my friends at school all wanted to be astronauts. I can't imagine what carees advise we'd have gotten.
Author:  rustybucket [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
OMJF!

Aren't children allowed to be children anymore? Does nobody find it utterly ghastly that seven year-olds should be thinking about having jobs rather than playing and learning to have fun, chill out, play sports, develop passions and generally socialise?

The last thing we need is more stressed-out, workaholic, one-track-minded, money-grabbing, people-using, liver-abusing anti-social droids.

AAARRRGH!
:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
rustybucket wrote:
OMJF!

Aren't children allowed to be children anymore? Does nobody find it utterly ghastly that seven year-olds should be thinking about having jobs rather than playing and learning to have fun, chill out, play sports, develop passions and generally socialise?

The last thing we need is more stressed-out, workaholic, one-track-minded, money-grabbing, people-using, liver-abusing anti-social droids.

AAARRRGH!
:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:


I watched Brazil over the weekend. It seemed more relevant than when I first saw it.
Author:  John_Vella [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
james016 wrote:
When I was 7, me and my friends at school all wanted to be astronauts. I can't imagine what carees advise we'd have gotten.


A mate of mine wanted, at the age of seven, to be a fire engine when he grew up... Apparently he just enjoyed running down the road shouting "Wooooo Wooooo Wooooo" at the top of his voice. :lol:
Author:  big_D [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
They should be working in t' mine! :evil:

I'm with Rusty on this one.

And thanks for the tip Paul, might dig Brazil out this evening...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Career advice for seven-year-olds
rustybucket wrote:
OMJF!

Aren't children allowed to be children anymore? Does nobody find it utterly ghastly that seven year-olds should be thinking about having jobs rather than playing and learning to have fun, chill out, play sports, develop passions and generally socialise?

The last thing we need is more stressed-out, workaholic, one-track-minded, money-grabbing, people-using, liver-abusing anti-social droids.

AAARRRGH!
:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

I agree. Kids will change their minds between 7 and 11.

Quote:
The programme aims to challenge some of the "negative stereotyping" that leads some children from poorer backgrounds to believe that universities and certain careers are out of reach for them.

Try telling them that the debt will be worth it when they will owe more than their parents earned this year.

Quote:
There will also be more help for disadvantaged and disabled young people in accessing work experience and every young person is to get a careers mentor.

The whole disabled career support from local government is disjointed and muddled. Plus getting a grant takes far too long.
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