LIFE LESSONS: "Put yourself out there and give it a go!"
The Wittering Whitehalls
Global
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Meet Hilary Whitehall, who will be your careers advisor this week! Plus, the obligatory run down of all the jobs Mr Whitehall has been sacked from over the years!
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| 0:00.0 | If I had to picture a moment of calmfulness, it would have to be at the beach. |
| 0:05.0 | On the edge of the sand, with the waves at my toes, what's yours? |
| 0:10.2 | Calm's Herbal Remedies. |
| 0:12.2 | Calm's days, a traditional herbal medicine used for stress, exclusively based on traditional use only, contains Valerian Root. Always read the label. |
| 0:22.2 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | Bonus buy time! Yes, we're back. Welcome back to the Whitehall Towers for the bonus episode. |
| 0:39.8 | This week, a subject that I think will touch many, many people because it's a tricky one and it's the subject of careers. |
| 0:47.9 | Something you know a little bit about, Mr. Whitehall. I'm going to kick off with the email though before you open your mouth, unless you want to say hello. |
| 0:55.1 | Hello. |
| 0:56.7 | Is that it? |
| 0:58.2 | Okay, yep. |
| 0:59.5 | That's it. |
| 1:00.8 | Dear Hillary and Michael, how does one in their teenage years decide what career to pursue for the rest of their life? |
| 1:06.7 | I'm 19 and started medical school a couple of years ago before deciding it wasn't for me. |
| 1:12.0 | I've now been working for two years, procrastinating, reapplying for a new university |
| 1:16.5 | course slash apprenticeship for fear of starting another course that I then changed my mind about. |
| 1:22.1 | It's such a mind-feel knowing what I want to pursue. I really have no idea at all. Best wishes, Hannah. Hannah, |
| 1:29.5 | I'm with you on that one. This is the big, massive, central floor in our education system that |
| 1:36.1 | it makes us choose way too early, because if you think about it, if you want to do medicine, |
| 1:41.3 | you're going to have to choose the right sciences at 14. Who the |
| 1:45.1 | hell knows what they want to do at 14? Answer, probably nobody. But, of course, if you do |
| 1:51.7 | want to pursue medicine, then that's what you have to do, as you well know, because you pursued |
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