I would encourage more men to go into child care because children need positive male role models.
I'm doing an apprenticeship with Rathbone in Wakefield and working full-time at the nearby Daisy Chain Nursery School. There aren't any other lads in my class but I'm not fussed because I've worked with women all my life and the parents at the school like me - although some were surprised I wasn't one of the dads coming to collect their kid.
It took me six months to tell my mates that I wanted to be a child carer and I nearly quit at one point because I got so sick of people telling me it wasn't a lad's job. But I work as hard as any plumber or bricklayer and I get annoyed when people say looking after kids isn't a man's job.
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