You're a local boy then?
I started coming down to Popworks regularly when I was about 13. My youth worker later suggested I do senior member training. I really enjoyed that and started working on projects such as a football fun day linked to the World Cup and going on club trips as an additional member of staff. It built my confidence a great deal. When I was 18 I was asked if I wanted to sign up for a Level 2 course in youth work.
When did you decide it might be a career?
When I was given responsibility to run a rural youth club I started to think it could be a job. When you are 16 and just know your own club, you don't realise there's so much you can do in youth work.
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