Story overview
So I worked a lot with young adults and teenagers and did some school based work with the middle school aged kids. I got to the point where I had a really great boss and he just took me aside and said 'you're really quite good at this, but we're not ever going to be able to give you a proper job because you don't have any real qualifications.' So that's why I went to university and started doing a B.Ed. with English which I was really impressed that I got into. It was really competitive and I hated it. I absolutely hated it. I am in no way a natural primary school teacher. I found it absolutely alienating, really politically dubious, really bureaucratic, didn't find I had an awful lot in common with lots of the other students. Looking back on it, I think I was wrong about lots of the teaching, but I hated it because it wasn't what I needed or what I should have been doing. So I carried on – I was still working as a youth worker to supplement my income, running three youth clubs at that point.
