http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 25 May 2013 11:23:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/04/why-i-picked-the-vocational-route/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/04/why-i-picked-the-vocational-route/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:00:53 +0000 Helen Wright http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27062 Studying through an apprenticeship isn’t for everyone. You’re thrown in the deep end, into the working world, and you either sink or swim.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/04/why-i-picked-the-vocational-route/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/how-we-all-started-working-for-free-3/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/how-we-all-started-working-for-free-3/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:00:09 +0000 Ruth Whippman http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25651 When I was a student, back in the early nineties, I had a holiday job at the frozen-food supermarket chain, Iceland. One morning, presumably fresh from a leadership course at Frosty HQ, our manager called all the staff together to admonish us for our apparent lack of enthusiasm for the sale of turkey nuggets. “Sometimes I feel that some of you are only in this for the money” she hissed. She was cut off by incredulous laughter. After all, what other motivation could there be for spending one’s weekend restocking a giant fridge freezer? ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/how-we-all-started-working-for-free-3/feed/ 54