Hi, I’m Olivia and I am doing work experience with Stafford Long, having just finishing my GCSEs. I have recently chosen my A-Level subjects – Art, Psychology, Biology and Geography and am hoping to go to university in 2 years time; however I do not know what I wish to study.

After just relieving myself from the stress of GCSEs – it felt like it was all over until I went to a sixth form taster day at my school, where I only got intimidated by more work to be done in the following year and exams which are soon to come.

Being a teenager, I have yet to make decisions about what I want to do with my life. I have friends who have a life plan for themselves, and they know exactly what they want to do. However, I have not made decisions on what career I want to go into, and so I chose the subjects I enjoy for A-Levels, not thinking about what career options they give me and I am hoping I will discover what I want to be, sometime soon.

At my age we start to get pressurized for decisions we should be making for university and what to do to prepare ourselves, which is all rather intimidating to me, as I still feel young and naive to the big world of work.

Doing work experience with Stafford Long has made me realise what work life is like, and it has finally hit me that time will fly, and before I know it, I myself, could be working in a company similar to this one, in only a few years.