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What's the next step for me? - Lucy Hoo­ker (A)

You are going to read about the decision-​making pro­ces­ses of three Bri­tish stu­dents.

1
Name the in­for­ma­ti­on given about Amy and Nick (name, age, ca­re­er choice, ar­gu­ments men­ti­o­ned etc.).
2
Ex­ami­ne how the text pres­ents what Amy and Nick are say­ing and the ef­fect crea­ted by this.
3
The text uses words and phra­ses that show that Army and Nick are happy with their de­ci­si­on, but also con­ces­sions they are ma­king. Collect them.
  • Com­pa­re your re­sults with a part­ner that has worked on the same text as you.
  • Al­re­a­dy fi­nis­hed? Eva­lu­a­te in how far your own opi­ni­on is in line with what you just read.
4
Pre­sent your texts and re­sults to your part­ner who worked on the other works­heet. Dis­cuss the pros and cons of uni­ver­si­ty and ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship cour­ses.
  • Which young adults from the text in­spi­re your own decision-​making pro­cess?

'It made me who I am'

Amy De Friend, 25, did a de­gree in fash­ion pro­mo­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tion. She now works in re­cruit­ment, but doesn't re­gret her de­cision to study first.

"I went to uni­ver­sity, be­cause at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do." Amy star­ted her de­gree the first year that fees went up from £3,000 a year to £9,250.

"My par­ents said: 'Do you really want to spend £9,000 on this?'"

And at the end of the three years, she dis­covered that to get into the fash­ion in­dustry, she would still have to take un­paid in­tern­ships. So she worked for Carphone Ware­house in­stead.Amy ac­cepts she could prob­ably have got the re­cruit­ment job she's in now without a de­gree."I wouldn't say it was a waste of time," she says. "The ex­per­i­ence I had was fant­astic, it helped me de­velop as a per­son."

At uni­ver­sity, Amy joined a diving club and qual­i­fied as an in­structor, some­thing she wouldn't oth­er­wise have tried. "I don't think it's all about get­ting a job. It's about what you gain from the ex­per­i­ence. It made me who I am."



'I was itch­ing to start work'

Nick Mar­tin, 20, has just been head-​hunted for a £22,500-​a-year job in sales. He puts that down to his work ex­per­i­ence as an ap­pren­tice with a tele­phone net­work­ing equip­ment com­pany.

"Be­fore I got my last job, I went through a lot of in­ter­views. Every single agency and com­pany loved the fact I had done an ap­pren­tice­ship, be­cause it shows you know what it's like in a fast-​paced of­fice en­vir­on­ment." At 17, Nick was "just itch­ing to get into work".

The ap­pren­tice­ship scheme he joined was new and he felt he was a "guinea pig", often left to get on with things un­su­per­vised, which meant a lot of re­spons­ib­il­ity very quickly.

"By the time most people my age come out of uni, I'll have had three to five years' ex­per­i­ence. On the flip­side, I haven't spent that time get­ting the extra qual­i­fic­a­tions."

'It made me who I am'

Amy De Friend, 25, did a de­gree in fash­ion pro­mo­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tion. She now works in re­cruit­ment, but doesn't re­gret her de­cision to study first.

"I went to uni­ver­sity, be­cause at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do." Amy star­ted her de­gree the first year that fees went up from £3,000 a year to £9,250.

"My par­ents said: 'Do you really want to spend £9,000 on this?'"

And at the end of the three years, she dis­covered that to get into the fash­ion in­dustry, she would still have to take un­paid in­tern­ships. So she worked for Carphone Ware­house in­stead.Amy ac­cepts she could prob­ably have got the re­cruit­ment job she's in now without a de­gree."I wouldn't say it was a waste of time," she says. "The ex­per­i­ence I had was fant­astic, it helped me de­velop as a per­son."

At uni­ver­sity, Amy joined a diving club and qual­i­fied as an in­structor, some­thing she wouldn't oth­er­wise have tried. "I don't think it's all about get­ting a job. It's about what you gain from the ex­per­i­ence. It made me who I am."



'I was itch­ing to start work'

Nick Mar­tin, 20, has just been head-​hunted for a £22,500-​a-year job in sales. He puts that down to his work ex­per­i­ence as an ap­pren­tice with a tele­phone net­work­ing equip­ment com­pany.

"Be­fore I got my last job, I went through a lot of in­ter­views. Every single agency and com­pany loved the fact I had done an ap­pren­tice­ship, be­cause it shows you know what it's like in a fast-​paced of­fice en­vir­on­ment." At 17, Nick was "just itch­ing to get into work".

The ap­pren­tice­ship scheme he joined was new and he felt he was a "guinea pig", often left to get on with things un­su­per­vised, which meant a lot of re­spons­ib­il­ity very quickly.

"By the time most people my age come out of uni, I'll have had three to five years' ex­per­i­ence. On the flip­side, I haven't spent that time get­ting the extra qual­i­fic­a­tions."





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"At the time, I didn't have doubts. Now, to be hon­est, I think about it a bit more. The main re­a­son for that is a bit of 'Fomo' - fear of mis­sing out - mis­sing out on the so­cial aspect of being at uni. You get to live in halls or housing with flat­ma­tes. I'm still li­ving at home."

Then there's the snob­be­ry. "I still get that fee­ling from some people - people I know who are at uni who think they're bet­ter - there can be a smug­ness. But there's nothing gu­a­ran­teed. They'll have a de­gree, but they'll still have to find a job, which is hard."



from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-​48933588

"At the time, I didn't have doubts. Now, to be hon­est, I think about it a bit more. The main re­a­son for that is a bit of 'Fomo' - fear of mis­sing out - mis­sing out on the so­cial aspect of being at uni. You get to live in halls or housing with flat­ma­tes. I'm still li­ving at home."

Then there's the snob­be­ry. "I still get that fee­ling from some people - people I know who are at uni who think they're bet­ter - there can be a smug­ness. But there's nothing gu­a­ran­teed. They'll have a de­gree, but they'll still have to find a job, which is hard."



from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-​48933588





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Vocab.

re­cruit­ment - Per­so­nal­be­schaf­fung

itch to do sth. (infml) - wish to do sth.

head-​hunt sb. for a job - find so­me­o­ne sui­ta­ble for a working po­si­ti­on

fast-​paced- mo­ving, hap­pe­ning, chan­ging very quick­ly

gui­nea pig (gIni pIg) per­son used in me­di­cal or other ex­pe­ri­ments

flip­si­de -​reverse, the op­po­si­te of sth.

smug­ness - loo­king or fee­ling too plea­sed about sth. you have done)

What's the next step for me? - Lucy Hoo­ker (B)

You are going to read about the decision-​making pro­ces­ses of three Bri­tish stu­dents.

1
Name the in­for­ma­ti­on given about Amy and Nick (name, age, ca­re­er choice, ar­gu­ments men­ti­o­ned etc.).
2
Ex­ami­ne how the text pres­ents what Amy and Nick are say­ing and the ef­fect crea­ted by this.
3
The text uses words and phra­ses that show that Army and Nick are happy with their de­ci­si­on, but also con­ces­sions they are ma­king. Collect them.
  • Com­pa­re your re­sults with a part­ner that has worked on the same text as you.
  • Al­re­a­dy fi­nis­hed? Eva­lu­a­te in how far your own opi­ni­on is in line with what you just read.
4
Pre­sent your texts and re­sults to your part­ner who worked on the other works­heet. Dis­cuss the pros and cons of uni­ver­si­ty and ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship cour­ses.
  • Which young adults from the text in­spi­re your own decision-​making pro­cess?

'School was very anti-ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship'

When Matt Car­pen­ter left school at 17, a lot of his class­ma­tes were ai­ming for uni­ver­si­ty. He could have joi­ned them. "I was the only per­son in my class who didn't go,“ he says.

In­s­tead, he took up a three-​year ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship with the Mer­chant Navy, spen­ding half his time at col­lege and half his time at sea on oil and gas tan­kers, pas­sen­ger ships and bulk car­ri­ers.

"School was very, very anti-​apprenticeship - even when I had the place, they were very against it. Up until the last day, they were still as­king, 'Do you re­al­ly want to do this?'"

For him, the choice was clear: no stu­dent debt and pay of £175 a week. Now, at 21, he's on an an­nu­al sala­ry of £37,000 tax-​free and qua­li­fied to drive the world's lar­gest ships.

He ad­mits the so­cial life didn't com­pa­re to what his fri­ends were up to, though. "When you're at sea, you're quite cut off. There's no in­ter­net. You're working every day."



'To learn about so­me­thing I loved was bril­li­ant'

Jenny Will­bourn, 29, joi­ned en­gi­nee­ring firm At­kins after gai­ning un­der­gra­du­a­te and post-​graduate de­grees in geo­gra­phy. The firm has a well-​established ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship pro­gram­me, but she says that wouldn't have been the right route for her.

"I be­lie­ve there's so­me­thing va­lu­a­ble in aca­de­mic study - the op­por­tu­ni­ty to un­der­stand a parti­cu­lar area of know­ledge."

"To push your com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on skills is one thing, but to cri­ti­cal­ly eva­lu­a­te - that's a skill that uni­ver­si­ty teaches. I value that as se­cond to none."

She works in a high­ly spe­cia­li­sed team at At­kins loo­king at spa­ti­al data, in­clu­ding map­ping the lo­ca­ti­ons of bad­gers and bats as part of the HS2 plan­ning pro­cess.

"I nee­ded a de­gree to tell me what the op­ti­ons were and give me the skills I now have. For me, the abi­li­ty to hone my skills at an aca­de­mic level was very im­portant."

But above all, she en­joy­ed the ex­pe­ri­ence: "To learn about so­me­thing I loved was bril­li­ant."

'School was very anti-ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship'

When Matt Car­pen­ter left school at 17, a lot of his class­ma­tes were ai­ming for uni­ver­si­ty. He could have joi­ned them. "I was the only per­son in my class who didn't go,“ he says.

In­s­tead, he took up a three-​year ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship with the Mer­chant Navy, spen­ding half his time at col­lege and half his time at sea on oil and gas tan­kers, pas­sen­ger ships and bulk car­ri­ers.

"School was very, very anti-​apprenticeship - even when I had the place, they were very against it. Up until the last day, they were still as­king, 'Do you re­al­ly want to do this?'"

For him, the choice was clear: no stu­dent debt and pay of £175 a week. Now, at 21, he's on an an­nu­al sala­ry of £37,000 tax-​free and qua­li­fied to drive the world's lar­gest ships.

He ad­mits the so­cial life didn't com­pa­re to what his fri­ends were up to, though. "When you're at sea, you're quite cut off. There's no in­ter­net. You're working every day."



'To learn about so­me­thing I loved was bril­li­ant'

Jenny Will­bourn, 29, joi­ned en­gi­nee­ring firm At­kins after gai­ning un­der­gra­du­a­te and post-​graduate de­grees in geo­gra­phy. The firm has a well-​established ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship pro­gram­me, but she says that wouldn't have been the right route for her.

"I be­lie­ve there's so­me­thing va­lu­a­ble in aca­de­mic study - the op­por­tu­ni­ty to un­der­stand a parti­cu­lar area of know­ledge."

"To push your com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on skills is one thing, but to cri­ti­cal­ly eva­lu­a­te - that's a skill that uni­ver­si­ty teaches. I value that as se­cond to none."

She works in a high­ly spe­cia­li­sed team at At­kins loo­king at spa­ti­al data, in­clu­ding map­ping the lo­ca­ti­ons of bad­gers and bats as part of the HS2 plan­ning pro­cess.

"I nee­ded a de­gree to tell me what the op­ti­ons were and give me the skills I now have. For me, the abi­li­ty to hone my skills at an aca­de­mic level was very im­portant."

But above all, she en­joy­ed the ex­pe­ri­ence: "To learn about so­me­thing I loved was bril­li­ant."





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'I feel re­al­ly proud of mys­elf'

Joy Shepheard-​Walwyn, 19, had a place at Durham Uni­ver­si­ty to study phi­lo­so­phy and Rus­si­an. She re­jec­ted it in fa­vour of a ma­nage­ment con­sul­tan­cy ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship with ac­coun­tan­cy firm PwC.

Mo­ving to Leeds on her own just a few days after her 18th bir­th­day was nerve-​racking, she says. But PwC has hel­ped pro­vi­de a com­mu­ni­ty for her in and out of work. She's joi­ned the firm's net­ball team and teaches Eng­lish to re­fu­gees. She loves the work, ma­na­ging chan­ge in the pu­blic sec­tor, adult so­cial care, local go­vern­ment and schools.

"I feel re­al­ly proud of mys­elf in terms of what I've achie­ved."

She thinks uni­ver­si­ty can be about put­ting off adult life a litt­le lon­ger. "My fri­ends are out par­ty­ing a lot, but I'm ear­ning a sala­ry."

"I don't feel I missed out. I just went it about it a dif­fe­rent way."



from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-​48933588

'I feel re­al­ly proud of mys­elf'

Joy Shepheard-​Walwyn, 19, had a place at Durham Uni­ver­si­ty to study phi­lo­so­phy and Rus­si­an. She re­jec­ted it in fa­vour of a ma­nage­ment con­sul­tan­cy ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship with ac­coun­tan­cy firm PwC.

Mo­ving to Leeds on her own just a few days after her 18th bir­th­day was nerve-​racking, she says. But PwC has hel­ped pro­vi­de a com­mu­ni­ty for her in and out of work. She's joi­ned the firm's net­ball team and teaches Eng­lish to re­fu­gees. She loves the work, ma­na­ging chan­ge in the pu­blic sec­tor, adult so­cial care, local go­vern­ment and schools.

"I feel re­al­ly proud of mys­elf in terms of what I've achie­ved."

She thinks uni­ver­si­ty can be about put­ting off adult life a litt­le lon­ger. "My fri­ends are out par­ty­ing a lot, but I'm ear­ning a sala­ry."

"I don't feel I missed out. I just went it about it a dif­fe­rent way."



from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-​48933588




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Vocab.

ap­p­ren­ti­ce­ship - Aus­bil­dung,

en­gi­neer - Ige­neur

well-​established - gut eta­blier­tes

bad­ger - Dachs

con­sul­tant - Be­ra­ter

ac­coun­tant - Buch­hal­ter

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