Quote: "Well if worse comes to worse, i will can work with my dad"
Last I heard you weren't allowed to take a placement with a relative, it might be different now though.
I spent 2 weeks at a local newspaper, was actually pretty good. I had a reasonable level of responsibility, was given plenty to do and had a coffee
made for me (I later offered to make one for everyone else, it's the done thing lol).
At the time I was considering a career in journalism and it certainly helped me to see what it was like as a job.
Quote: "people in my year are going to japan, thailand, america all studying like advanced robotics or things like that"
Times have changed lol, I think the most 'exotic' experience anybody I know had was a kid who worked in a fishing shop that sold pornos to certain 'priviledged' customers for a bit of extra cash.
Like a lot of things, the school will be making a lot of fuss about something that will probably have little to no impact on the rest of your life. I lost count of the number of 'health and safety in the workplace' videos I had to sit through prior to going.
