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208 From Leaving Certificate to Leaving School I don’t know yet. Beauty therapy or interior design. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake) I want to work with animals so I’ve applied for veterinary medicine and zoology and then some animal, practical animal courses in England. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake) Other students were unsure of the choices that they had made on the CAO application form. Students stressed the magnitude of their decisions for their future careers and happiness: It’s got to be something that you can do, you know, it’s going to be your final career at the end of the day like … You really want to do something that is going to make you happy not just money, job interest … what you want to do. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake) Other students had made choices but were unsure and felt they might change their minds at a later date and do something else: I’ve put accounting as number one on my CAO but I’m not too sure, I think I might change and do something completely different, I don’t know. I put BIS down, business information systems, but I don’t know, I don’t really want to do anything. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake) For some students, their decision would be made by the amount of points they get in their exams and whether it is enough for the courses they applied for: Depends on the points situation. … You put down a few things and hope. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake) Some students in Argyle Street had plans beyond their degree course and they had begun to think about what post-graduate courses would be suitable for their career path:
Looking Back, Moving Forward 209 I’m doing nutrition and science in [name of university] and I’m going to do a post-grad then to be a dietician. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake) Others, however, had just planned on the degree course but no further: Interviewer: Right what about yourself? Arts in [name of university] and then I don’t know, see what happens. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake) For students in the LCA programme, there appeared to be direct linkages between the LCA curriculum and students’ post-school education and career choices. Modules aimed at preparing students for the world of work, such as Hair and Beauty, Childcare, Construction and Engineering, influenced students’ decisions to apply for specific apprenticeships or jobs: Interviewer: So what are you going to do? Hairdressing Interviewer: What about yourself? I’m going to college to do hairdressing, and I’m going to do an apprenticeship Interviewer: Right. I’m going for the Army Interviewer: Right, ok. Electrician. Interviewer: Is that an apprenticeship? It is, yeah, through FÁS, yeah. (Argyle Street, coed school, mixed intake, LCA) 6.4.3 Working-class Schools For students from working-class schools, plans for the future were more mixed. As in the schools with a socially mixed intake, some student
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