Stacey
Stacey left school at 16 after struggling with dyslexia. She had no idea what she wanted to do after leaving full time education and wasn’t able to find work. She did an Entry to Employment course and after a year got a job in the kitchens of a nursing home.
‘But it wasn’t for me, it was like one person doing two people’s work. It was like too much for one person to do.’
She left the nursing home and went to work for a cleaning firm but had to leave that too when they said they had no work for her. She then went to college to do a level 1 hairdressing course.
‘But I got told there’‘s no point me doing the next level because it would be too hard for me because they move too fast and they don’t slow down for people that are behind.’
When she was at college she worked in a hairdressing salon one day a week.
‘I enjoyed the work because you interacted with the customers but they had to let me go because she had to make room for someone doing a modern apprenticeship.’
Stacey had thought about doing an apprenticeship, ‘but the college side of it would have been too hard and I wouldn’t have been able to do that.’
After applying for many jobs, Stacey has just been offered a job at a local hotel. She is really excited at the prospect of working and gaining a range of new skills.