4/14/2023 0 Comments Lighthouse keeper jobs 2011I used the ticket to go and see a football match instead. British Rail sent me a rail ticket to London to attend an interview. I was invited to interview for an apprenticeship at British Leyland – I didn’t go. I found none in the then heavily-industrialised streets though I’ve since developed a great liking for post-industrial landscapes. I spent hours wandering around Birmingham trying to find inspiration. Perhaps if I’d aimed lower, if I’d been advised where to aim, then my career might have been very different. ![]() Anyway, though I loved my sport I wasn’t considered good enough at it to tempt those bastions. I even went up to Carnegie in Leeds but recall nothing of the college or interview. I wrote (this was well before internet days of course) to the elite PE colleges of the day, Loughborough and Carnegie. I had no plan and no one to turn to really. I was so miserable in the office there that I pushed my resignation letter under the manager’s door, walked out of the building and never heard from them again. Yeah, I did six weeks at Eagle Star Insurance on the Hagley Road, since airbrushed from any subsequent CV. I think any of us that went to see him got the same takeaways – try Banking or Insurance. He had no more clue than me, which is why he was a teacher I suppose. ![]() I recall one interview with a disinterested careers teacher, the task probably an unwanted add-on to his normal job. All you were doing there was damaging their statistics by drifting away into the general world of work. I didn’t have a clue what to do next.Īt St Philip’s, once you had signified you had no interest in going on to university you became a non-person. I left St Philip’s Grammar School, Birmingham in the early summer of 1971.
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