31 Work Is a Four-Letter Word

Secondary Schools, Employers, and Transitions Into Early Employment

Anthony Mann

DOI: 10.4324/9781003272397-38

When the conversation dries in gatherings of new friends, you can be sure to generate a lively hour by asking what people wanted to do when they were young and the career advice they received at secondary school. Everyone has a story, often a negative one. My own sole experience of guidance: as a shy 16-year-old, we were told to avoid wasting the time of a guidance counselor who had come into the school by having nothing to say. We needed to come up ...

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