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Perhaps you left school without all the qualifications you needed to pursue a career or further the one you are already in.

 

Sammy Baker, by her own admission, is not too hot at using the written word - and employers have picked this up.

 

"My spelling's appalling," she says. And this is not the only reason the letters she had to write in her last job all needed to be checked before going to the mailroom. She accepts that she has yet to master the skill of communicating clearly on paper, though this is getting better in her present work. "These are basically things that you would have thought - having done English A-level - might have been ironed out," she says.

The 20-year-old is now expeditions co-ordinator for Camps International, an organisation that offers young people volunteering opportunities in Africa and Asia. It's a job she clearly adores and had desired ever since going on one of the organisation's trips herself, to work in Tanzania . She is pretty clear that her formal education did not help her clinch it. "The reason I got this job was determination," she says.

 

"I applied more than once - nearer a million times - in writing and on the phone. I was persistent."

 

In the sixth form at her mixed comprehensive, everything was focused on the pupils going on to university, she says. "There was never any advice on what jobs were available if you didn't have a degree." Because university was "the only option put forward at school", she went. She lasted a month. "I didn't like the university, I didn't like the course, and it wasn't quite like it had been described."

 

The purpose of this site is to give you ideas, show you a different way of looking at your future and give you guidance.

 

Have a look around at the categories, spend some time looking at a selection of what is on offer and ‘go-for-it. What have you got to lose!

 

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)