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[shorty]

1 week at the local council, going around with the photographer and also designing posters and stuff, wasn't to bad but wasnt great either

3 weeks down with chris at smart performance, best work experience so far to be fair, learned a fair bit about the engines and stuff.

and i also run the local skateshop on my own from time to time voluntarily to help out the owner, so i class this as work experience too and its pretty fun when its busy

[mighty mini jack]

2 weeks at a Sign & decal manufacturer - all that sexy Vinyl!

Had an altercation with the boss, he told me to do the weeds outside the shop so i went home and his spade got stolen from outside Went back the next day and he apologized.

Got quite a lot of 'freebies' along with some good knowledge and experience in that trade, which i enjoyed.

[chrisholland1983]

Martyn Bell Motor Engineers Limited back in 1998 he now drives in B.T.C.C

[tomgale]

bently motors prototype and tool shop. 100% as cool as it sounds. heavy machinery, factory tours to secret places, rides in custom mulliner bentlys 'borrowed' from the production line, talikng to a guy called elliot and the rest of the tool shop and prototyping guys about our minis, doing secret things i can never tell anyone about because of secrecy contracts... yeah pretty good week actually not to mention dodging brand new bently conti supersports flying out on test runs!

[locky7101]

went to the Ariel garage and got to work with the mechanics, building the atom, got to go in two of em the base model and the top model, very fast as they took me on road tests where they have to push it to its limits! went very fast! i couldnt see what speed because my head was put back into the headrest! absolutely amazing week! learnt hell of a lot as well.

[Jim_Jam]

Spent mine with Fire and Rescue =D


Was great fun! Went down the river Tyne on the fire boat, up in one of the cherry picker style rescue cages. Did a rat run sort of training exercise, basically a 3d maze, the rooms filled with smoke so you cant see a thing and you have to fit all your breathing apparatus through some pretty tight spots!

Spent each day with a different department.

[The-Womble]

Spent mine at my local VW Garage. Was pretty decent;
After the first half a day, the guy supervising me realised I was fairly competent and just left me in charge of doing the MOTs (occasionally coming past to check I hadn't ruined any cars )
Got 2 brand new unregistered Porsche 911 GT3s come across from the Porsche garage across the road because they didn't have MOT testing facilities for PDIs and MOT checks.....and then we took them out for a bit of a spin afterwards just to check they were working all correctly

That said, we didnt half have enough Golf MK5s to MOT! Could have done one with my eyes shut by the end of the week!

Did get to try a hand at some other stuff while I was there (not just MOTs).

A good experience

[RsSpyder]

I worked at a Porsche Dealership in the workshop. Best 2 weeks of my life, helped maintain the press fleet - did some work on the boxster that was on top gear when clarkson did that army exercise with it and the slk55. Also got a ride in a carrera gt which was one of the best things i have ever done.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Done a few.

Most memorable was the old peoples home, last summer. Was good times, i'd do it again if i wasnt so busy.

[project mini chris]

Does anyone on here own a mini garage, machine shop or engeneering buisness that they'd be willing to take on someone for work experience?
Thought i'd better start looking as ive got 6 months to find somewhere

Edited by project mini chris, 19 August 2010 - 11:20 AM.

[project mini chris]

double post!

Edited by project mini chris, 19 August 2010 - 11:20 AM.

[leadly]

I was working before and after school when it was time for me to do work experience so I didn't bother doing any.

Oh how working at Londis was...........rubbish, there's nothing like spending all my wages on MATCH and SHOOT magazines before i'd even left the shop, lol.