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How I found my vocation

31 January 2020

  • ‘Being a young social worker, I think I can relate to the teenagers, because it’s not long since I’ve been there.’

    How I found my vocation: 'My upbringing in care helps me as a social worker'

    I can put myself in other people’s shoes and ask what help I would have wanted when I was their age

6 November 2019

  • ‘My conviction made it hard for me to live a normal student life.’

    How I found my vocation: 'After prison, studying made me feel normal'

    I thought I’d blown any hope of having a normal life, but going to uni gave me a second chance

31 October 2019

  • ‘Students do understand and most of the time they’re incredibly supportive.’

    How I found my vocation: 'My stammer made me a better teacher'

    I was told to consider a different career – but it’s good for students to see that we’re real people too

16 October 2019

  • ‘I was told I should go straight to work.’

    How I found my vocation: 'I was told I wasn't intelligent enough to study'

    No one at school knew about my complicated family life, but now I’m studying to be a lawyer and making my children proud

8 October 2019

  • Jephta Asamoah, Leidos Career Ready UK Student of the Year.

    How I found my vocation: 'As a black, deaf student, I work 10 times harder'

    I was told I wouldn’t be able to go to university, but I used that frustration to fuel my studies

23 August 2019

  • Michael Darko was a refugee and former gang member who went to university to study counselling after leaving prison.

    'I had given up hope, but studying counselling kept me alive'

    I felt less than human until I was given a second chance. University has made me stronger, hungrier and more confident
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