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My Life: Katie Theobald, 17, Taunton

I'm at the end of AS Levels and I realise I have no clue what to study at university or if I want to go at all.

Speaking to a careers adviser unearthed a whole host of potential career paths, but I was then advised to simply "pick one and run with it".

To narrow down my options, work experience seemed sensible - but how would I be able to choose work to experience, if I didn't know what work I wanted to do?

I found myself at Prospects. Initially looking at PR experience, but I have also been able to work in other departments within the office, giving me a greater understanding of the various job roles I didn't know existed. I've talked to people to discover what life in an office is really like and how these businessmen and women ended up in their line of work.

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