If he can speak Spanish & get by as an accountant then he could be running a skint European Country in 5 years. All Franco like.
If law, then he would need to specialise - it's a huge subject Computing - saturation in this market already, couple it with accounting and your heading towards financial services sector or accounts assistant - unless you're prepared to then go for an accounting qualification on a vocational / sponsored basis, it'll never be career that takes you anywhere of interest. Spanish - always useful a language, consider Chinese too. I'd still advocate a trade, not necessarily heavy engineering, but the future is in electronics and system maintenance - think about your car engine these days, it's just a sealed unit, diagnosed and fixed mostly with a laptop, same as domestic white goods. Different world really.
French Foreign Legion. He could serve 5 years and come out being able to speak fluent French. He could then get a job teaching French at Hymers, where he'll meet a posh teacher bird and get married, probably have a double barreled surname and everything. He'll be able to kill a snake with his bare hands to boot and will have a French passport under a false name. What is not to like?
The UK space sector is worth billions and set to triple in the next 20 years. Anything relating to physics, computing or engineering is going to be a prosperous and worthwhile endeavour.
I'm a process engineer (think chemicals & making things etc...) I started small got experience & got my degrees through open university, I now have my own (small) consultancy... I get paid to do something I love & enjoy 😊
We have a winner. Chazz Junior De Gaulle is going to march or die. Christ some of the female teachers were tidy tonight. I wont mention the 16 yr old girls there as i never looked.......
Cheers for that flg. Think engineering is the way to go but i dunno if thats what he wants do I dont want to force him into anything but its difficult if you dont know what you want to do.
I'd concur with most when they mention the Armed a Forces. Join as a boy leave as a man. Choose a branch that has a worth while trade. Even if he doesn't stick with it he would still leave having experienced a camaraderie that is only experienced in the forces. He would meet some great mates, see the world, play sport on a weekly basis even have food accommodation and clothes provided. If he enjoyed it so much that he stayed in for the full whack then he would have a great pension to look forward to.
Depends where he wants to end up. If he wants to stay in Hull, he'll need to temper his expectations and plans around that. If he's happy to travel, or move, it opens up a lot. Kinda why the RAF is a good option. Join up, get a trade, get proper qualifications now, then not be too old to leave and get a job in civvy street. Officer is always better, but, he might not be suited for that. Army I'd avoid, solider first, trade second. Navy...takes special sorts for the Navy, I spent 3 weeks on a frigate, and as much fun as I had, I knew I'd made the right decision to not join the Navy. RAF's like civvy street, but with a free uniform and less military than the other 2. Plus all the reasons Shippers above me mentions, either short term is good or if he loves it, you leave after 22 or 40 quite well set up. His A Levels are fine btw, he'd end up dropping one, and as long as they're sensible ones, the fact he has them is enough for most further education. Although obviously if he wanted to be a doctor, he'd need science type ones etc. Must suck being a kid these days. Some how mine are all in care work, Eldest in a home, middle one half way through nurse training and youngest about to start at the hospital. None of them anticipated that when they was 16. Eldest trained to be a hairdresser, middle one was going to Uni to do an Art degree and youngest had absolutely no idea at all.
Many references to the forces and why not, it's a good life if it suits you. My best advice would be to study the skills options very hard before applying as they are consummate switch sales people for where they have vacancies. I noticed FLG thought Air Force and Navy trade training superior to Army, maybe he is right, but I have my doubts. The Army exercise their technical skills in very different and diverse environments to the other arms. My best advice would be to take qualifications that are transferable to civvy street, as not all are, by a long chalk. If he has the ability to attend uni then I would advise him to join the Officer Training Cadre at Fresher's Fayre - it is the only paid club at uni and a great opportunity to weight up a Forces future without making a commitment, with a great social scene.
Uni's worth it just for the laugh and the lifelong mates you find. If you do a decent uni degree (engineering, accountancy, chartered surveying etc) then you can a decent career too,
Wish i'd done a law degree and qualified as a solicitor - lots of different specialist areas to choose from and you can make shedloads of money if you're any good.
Obviously you're joking but it's pretty decent money and the demand is virtually always high. I reckon someone with the right ideas could make a fairly well paid full time job from being Roary. I would say this is the best advice. If it's A Levels he's doing but doesn't know if he wants to go to uni or what he wants to do then to study the 3/4 that he enjoys the most and is good at. A lot of uni courses don't ask for specific subjects on application anyway. I would actually say that his choice of college is as important if not more important than the subjects he studies.
I give careers advice on a daily basis in my job (head of house in a secondary in birmingham) and for kids thinking of heading into a skilled, hands on profession like engineering I tend to push them towards apprenticeships. We are a bit spoilt for choice in the midlands though as jag/L-rover is on our doorstep and both Severn-Trent water and Cadburys offer a good range of training too. Apprenticeship.org.uk is a great site to explore. In hull and East Yorkshire you'll find at the moment well over 200 positions to apply for and they wil pay you anywhere from £100-200 a week(!) to train with them.its worth noting that the minimum entry requirements are just that; competition for places is fierce. If it says 3xB to get on it he'll need to aim for an A in at least one a level. Likewise, if it says 5xA*-C gcses he'll probably need 7. If he has his heart set on Uni, make sure as a previous poster said he picks something that interests him. He'll be doing it for 3 years and racking up a lot of debt in the process. I'd still say though if he's looking at accountancy he's better doing an apprenticeship. Also, employers and training providers love linguists. If he's good at Spanish he'll find foreign markets open to him too.
Chazz as you know I'm quite young but I think I've learnt a bit about this sort of thing having just come through the education system and got a decent job out of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do at 16. But I knew I liked IT so I did it at A Level and then again at uni, even though the A Level put me off a bit due to its content. I made the right decision and got a decent degree in it but still didn't know what I wanted to work in within IT in my final year, but something came up at the company I was already working at while I was studying and it's turned out well for me. A lot of my friends who also went to uni thought you had to have a plan in place at 16 but I don't think you do. If he doesn't know what to do I'd say go do a levels in whatever he enjoys and go to uni after that. I hated doing a levels and my degree too really but they were both definitely worth it. It doesn't guarantee a job obviously but it puts you in a much better position than not having one. If he's into IT the best career advice I'd give about IT is don't be just an IT guy. Everyone in IT is a techy but employers seem to love someone who can also be human and talk to people. Seems ridiculous that something so simple can be a skill but they really do seem to love it. When I was interviewed for this job there were loads of people there and I was probably the least skilled in the role technically cos of the particular degree I did and its content, but I got the job. Oh and finally don't do the 'that's not a proper subject' thing. It doesn't have to be maths or science to be a real qualification. If he likes musical theatre like his dad then go study it.
i didnt know what i wanted to do at 16 . This is a 100% honest reenactment of my careers "advice" in 1988 (prospect centre) i was asked to sit down , she looked at a folder (i guess its some school report ) she said "oh you were at Riley , well why don't you do a bricklaying course at college?" me , if i could do it all again , i wouldnt want to change it for fear of changing what i have now . But in the spirit of the question , at 15 i'd stop playing the class clown and get the grades i knew i was totally capable of . study electronics or computer science .
I'm looking forward to the following conversation : Look son, it's time you grew up, acted like an adult and lived in the real world. Now, I've had some great advice from people I've never met, on the Internet... Finishes off farting on sons head.
I would have borrowed as much as the bank would have lent me and dumped the lot on KC shares when they were originally floated and sold them just before they hit (What we now know) the highest price.
