What careers advice did you get at school, and did you follow it ?

[Drago]

If they gave me any careers advice then I wasn't listening.

I'd no more take careers advice from a teacher than I would financial advice from a financial adviser. After all, if they knew so much about careers or money then they wouldn't be teachers or financial advisers in the first place.

 

[winjim]

Someone else at my school found a very efficient way of choosing a job: on the careers advice sheet the top entry was 'abattoir', so he just chose that (and went on to work at the abattoir until he left after an argument about how many pigs he should carry)

And? How many is it?

 

[cyberknight]

The advice i got it rhymes with ugger ball

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Got none: no career's advisers at school in deepest, darkest Italy in the late 70's.
Anyway, if there had been, they would have advised boys only.

 

[marinyork]

Got none: no career's advisers at school in deepest, darkest Italy in the late 70's.
Anyway, if there had been, they would have advised boys only.

Your recent comment about are your married, do you have a degree etc made me laugh.

A lot of the problems with careers guidance these days in this country are teachers are one of the few groups that still value/interested in/care about qualifications at all. And that's sad. It's such a huge yawning gap with the rest of society. It would be fascinating how it is evolving in Italy in the current day with their expansion in university where there is still an obsession with qualifications.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

if they knew so much about careers or money then they wouldn't be teachers or financial advisers in the first place.

Judging by how much they charge I believe that many financial advisors are doing very nicely

 

[Saluki]

Advice from Mr Newby (who hated me)
"You are unattractive and, quite frankly, too thick to do anything useful. Get a job in the back room of a factory where nobody can see you. It's all you are fit for. Stop wasting my time and get out of my office". His sarcastic tone and harsh words have stuck with me. I was not a very confident kid, bullied by teachers and parents. Sometimes I think of Mr Newby, a failure as a teacher who was drummed out the profession under a cloud, and smile a bit.

I ignored the pompous pillock and went to college, got A levels and then went to University and got a BSc (Hons) instead. I worked in a chocolate factory during the hols once, not in a back room under a paper bag though. I was also a model for 18 months so Mr Newby can swivel.

 

[ACS]

The 3 comprehensive schools in my local area where geared to send the top 10% of the academically able off to the University, the next 10 or 15 % to the local Tech college and the rest to one of 4 factories that effectively supported the entire local economy. So my careers advice was "you are to thick to be an apprentice 'Turner / Fitter' so you'll go the bottling plant as an electricians mate, fill in the blue form and hand it to the school office, right off you trot."

Most of my mates took this route and found themselves out of work as each factory closed over the next 3 to 4 years. Not one of them managed to finish their 4 or 5 year apprenticeships.

Me? I ran off, willingly took the Queens shilling and had an absolute blast.

 

[Profpointy]

Judging by how much they charge I believe that many financial advisors are doing very nicely

financial advisers do very well - let's say 1/2% of the gross value of the funds invested for every year. The guy whose funds they are only gets maybe 3% on average. This fee is just the salesman's remember.
Sell a 200 pensions over 10 years and you're getting 1 person's entire pension pot - worth at least a quarter of a million - every year thereafter without lifting a finger

 

[Mrs M]

Advice from Mr Newby (who hated me)
"You are unattractive and, quite frankly, too thick to do anything useful. Get a job in the back room of a factory where nobody can see you. It's all you are fit for. Stop wasting my time and get out of my office". His sarcastic tone and harsh words have stuck with me. I was not a very confident kid, bullied by teachers and parents. Sometimes I think of Mr Newby, a failure as a teacher who was drummed out the profession under a cloud, and smile a bit.

I ignored the pompous pillock and went to college, got A levels and then went to University and got a BSc (Hons) instead. I worked in a chocolate factory during the hols once, not in a back room under a paper bag though. I was also a model for 18 months so Mr Newby can swivel.

Good for you
Spin on it Newby!

 

[rdfcyclist]

I can't say that I ever had any careers advice that wasn't to 'aim high', 'think big', etc. Other than being told to try for a Baccalaureate or go to Uni, I decided to get some competency-based training and see where I end up. Currently a manager in a medium sized international business but perhaps it's easier to say that I never stopped learning and I'm just getting an extended education.

 

[Kestevan]

When I left School in 85 I was told I was completely unsuited for a job in IT.

Lets just hope no-one tells my employers I've been pulling the wool over their eyes for the last 30 years........

 

[Drago]

financial advisers do very well - let's say 1/2% of the gross value of the funds invested for every year. The guy whose funds they are only gets maybe 3% on average. This fee is just the salesman's remember.
Sell a 200 pensions over 10 years and you're getting 1 person's entire pension pot - worth at least a quarter of a million - every year thereafter without lifting a finger

Then why are they still working as financial advisers if they're so wealthy?

 

[Profpointy]

Then why are they still working as financial advisers if they're so wealthy?

well you have to build up a portfolio of clients before you really start coining it don't you

 

[Brandane]

Then why are they still working as financial advisers if they're so wealthy?

Because they've blown it all at the bookies!