Welcome to career-plans.com, the FREE website designed for young adults aged 14 to 23 years who are deciding on their career plans.
Here we exchange career and job information between parents and young adults, giving detailed and enlightening insights drawn from first-hand experience.
So often careers are left just to chance. However, the more first-hand information you have, the more informed your choice. The more informed your choice, the more successful your career.
With higher education fees set to rise, it is really worth researching the validity of the course you choose for the career plan you have in mind. Will it really fit the job you ultimately want?
Remember, you are at the beginning of your career, so do not leave it just to chance. Make your informed choice with our help...
And see where life leads you.
| NAME: Joanna Corke | JOB TITLE: Sales and Marketing Director own business Connect 2 Sussex - Promotional Business Gifts |
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| YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 5 years Director of own business. Previous experience Group Telemarketing Manager for PLC 15 years. TODAY'S ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Setting up your own business takes no qualifications (I have a qualification in Business Studies) but you must be prepared to be a hard worker, able to work on own initiative and see a gap in the market and be able to fill it. BEST AND WORST BITS ABOUT THE JOB: Best - hearing clients being delighted with the service we offer and recommending you to others. Knowing that everything you earn is down to your own hard work. Although hours can be long they can fit round other commitments. Worst - trying to switch off at the end of the day. WHAT I WISH I'D BEEN TOLD BEFORE I STARTED: Nothing - working for yourself is very rewarding. But make sure you are aware of basic business practices such as cash flow, lead generation, sales and marketing and the benefit of networking. HOW DO I SEE THE JOB EVOLVING? Continuing to grow a successful business CONTACT ME AT: joanna@connect2sussex.com |
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| NAME: John Bartelous | JOB TITLE: Website entrepreneur |
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| YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: More than 54! OMG was it that long ago? With my wife, Carolyn, I run an internet mail order business, specialising in animal and livestock grooming products. We created the business from an idea I had some 30 years ago. Today it is one of the most sought after websites in its sector. I still thrive on working as I enter my 73rd year. Who wants to retire and degenerate in to a cabbage. Work keeps your mind active and there is a mountain of potential out there you haven’t even sniffed. While you are active – go for it! You will have masses of time when you are a “stiff” to relax. TODAY'S ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: First an idea (by far the hardest bit!). Then unrivalled knowledge of your chosen subject plus a lot of practical experience. The ability to communicate in the written word, as well as the spoken word is essential if you are going to succeed. Strong self-discipline, belief in yourself and what you are doing. Plenty of confidence and determination to succeed, and a fair degree of luck over the years! I was one of those privately educated persons, competitive at sport but with little or no academic prowess. I was, however, blessed with the ability to be eloquent in the English language, disciplined in my work, and mentally keen to succeed and make money. My parents despaired, so I was sent off at the age of 18 to work as an office boy in the local estate agents (£1 per week 1957). After several very exciting jobs I decided being employed was not for me (“politically correct” had not been born then but the office had its pecking order!). While being self-employed calls for a greater self discipline and puts you in the front line of risk at least you paddle your own canoe and are not sunk by others over whom you have little control. There is also a thing called freedom, which is priceless. BEST AND WORST BITS ABOUT THE JOB: Every job has both good and bad aspects. Life itself has good and bad so why should the job you do be different? You take a positive attitude and get on with it. If you enjoy what you do, the bad aspects will seem small compared to the wider picture. Pressure is good for you – it gives you a buzz! Learn how to handle it, know when to switch off and forget work. When you pitch against someone better than you it ups your game. Those who spend life grizzling and always wishing for some “greener field” are “sad gits” and lost before they start. WHAT I WISH I'D BEEN TOLD BEFORE I STARTED: Not a lot really as most of it I would have ignored. I had my own goals and ambitions, and I achieved most of them. Things that matter are family, health and contentment. I guess I wanted and worked for a life free of company politics, invigorating and stimulating in a place set in the depths of the countryside, where I could grow my own ideas and make not a grand but a good living. To that end I have no regrets - Mission accomplished! HOW DO I SEE THE JOB EVOLVING? At my age, unfortunately the human frame is not quite as buoyant as it was 30 years ago. The mind is fine but the rest has a job at time to keep up! I still have many ambitions within my business and I guess I want to develop these to their maximum. Retirement is not on my radar for many years to come – if ever! ANY OTHER COMMENTS: One could add so much more, and everybody, whatever their job – high-flying or unattractive - has experiences to share. Unfortunately young folk are not always good listeners (Were we ever?). Fortunately I have always valued the opinions of my elders simply because they have the ability of hindsight. You will come to learn that is a very valuable commodity. There is a mountain of educated “crap” trotted out by so called business experts. You make your own mind up but one motto in whatever business you embark on, will always serve you well: “Do to your customers that which you would want done to you!” CONTACT ME AT: john@peasridge.co.uk |
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