My Apprenticeship

My Apprenticeship
The Apprentices

Tuesday 14 January 2014

The difference between school and work

For the first few weeks, it felt so strange getting up each morning to go to work as I had been used to the routine of getting up and going to school, having lessons, lunch and so on forever! But I was now getting up earlier in order to get the train over to Liverpool and that alone took some getting used to as I lived round the corner from my school and could get there easily! What I also had to get used to was just having one, one hour long break as I was used to having a break and then having lunch, I adjusted to this easily it just felt very different to start off with.
Another thing that I had to get used to was the way in which although I am learning whilst on the job, I am in work to do a job whereas at school I was there to learn about the subjects I was studying and to pass my exams. In work I can get a sense of achievement after completing a piece of work and even more so if I do not need any help with completing that piece of work! Obviously, if I need help I ask for it and everybody in the office are willing to help me out, but being able to do your work without help feels that little bit better!
That leads me to my next point. Being able to complete your workload gives you that satisfaction and you get extra satisfaction at the reality of being paid at the end of each month. It’s okay feeling good when you finally get your head around a topic for an exam in school/university, but you don’t get paid for it! Getting paid at the end of the month for completing jobs makes me feel more independent as I can now pay for things like my own phone contract and car insurance. It makes you manage the money available to you which I’ve also found important too!