Work experience is an important practical step towards career action planning. It is a scheme designed to let you feel what it is like to be at work when you are still at school.

Who are they trying to kid? No it's not, because normal work has some kind of point because at least you get payed at the end of it. Work experience is totally and utterly pointless and you should see these leaflets they've given me, they're funny and ridiculous.

Apparently I'm not very well informed on the whole work experience matter. Do I have a tutor I know is coming to visit me and a specific supervisor. Um.. no? I feel as though these are things I should have been told about, and I should also probably have been told I needed to look at this leaflet a little before now. Apparently I should have sent all these formal letters, when actually all I did was get my mum to ask the lady when she saw her. Lol.

So aside from the fact that some rabid child is going to kill me I'm going to fail anyway because I lack basic key skills: communication and goal setting. Goal setting? Goal setting?!

MY TARGETS
find point of work experience.

WHAT WILL I DO TO MEET THESE TARGETS
live long enough to ask whoever comes to see me the exact point of my being there, when it is pretty likely I'm not actually going to speak to anyone for two weeks, and I'm only there for 3 hours anyway.

They have got to be kidding me with this:

Here are a number of words that ma describe your feelings about your first day. Please circle the words that match up with the way you felt.
tired comfortable anxious worried bored confident confused curious happy unhappy determined jealous horrified intertesed lonely perplexed optimisitc sad shocked smug suprised excited hysterical regretful aggressive bashful withdrawn nervous negative disappointed upset angry positive cautious miserable

The bad things listed should be reason enough not to make us do work experience.

This is going to be so bad. People always know who I am through someone else, like I'm always [insertnamehere]'s friend. Without that.. well, the fact that I'm always that pretty much shows that I'm a nobody. Being a nobody on my own is just depressing. That's why I hate goal setting. Setting stupid goals that I'm obviously gunna fail is pointless.

This is digging up lots of stuff I have been avoiding in my head.