Is work experience benefical?

the nursery and was able to embrace the experience of looking after babies ranging from the age of 5 months to 18 months. During the first year of the babies’ development they would have the most development happening at this age in their life than at any other time. So it was very interesting in looking after them as they were at all different stages in their development. Some were learning to sit up, crawl and others learning to walk. At these ages the babies are very dependent on you so we had to feed them and this was a challenge as you only have one set off hands and can’t feed them all at once. And when one start to scream and shout a couple of the others joined in . But eventually we fed all six babies. And then we had to entertain them till their parents came, I always enjoyed this as we were trying to teach them how to walk and was interesting. On the second day of my work experience I was in with the walker, children aged from 18 months till two years. There were 16 of these children so it was a little more challenging to look after them all and especially when it came to feeding time. We put them all on high chairs and began feeding them one by one. After feeding time they played but it was more difficult as they were all very active and were all able to run. One child had even learnt to bite and was biting the other children, and it all ended in tears. Once the child did something in which they shouldn’t have they were placed on time out where they had to sit excluded from the rest for 2 minutes. This was the nursery’s disciplinary regime. On the 3 and 4 day I was in with the toddlers there were about 20 toddlers which ages varied from 2-3 years. This was a task as they were all able to talk, hit and run. Some of the children would have hit one another and it was our duty to put them on time out and make sure it doesn’t continue. We also had to put them all to sleep after lunch and they where spilt up into two separate rooms. This was always very testing as some of the children did not want to go to sleep. So we had to rub their backs to put them over to sleep this could have taken half an hour before the whole room finally went over. Then one of the staff covered in each of the sleep rooms then the others had their lunch and then changed over half way through. When all the children awoke the preschools came from school and joined the toddlers. These included two disabled children. One girl had brain damage from birth and was unable to walk or talk ,nor could she do anything for herself. So she was very dependent on us. We had to feed her in a special chair and then we would have put a sleeping mat out for her to go to sleep as she was very tired from being at pre- school. There was also another disabled child and he has a heart problem and has had three operation and is only 3years old he also has down’s syndrome and only of very recent has he been able to walk. It really does make you thankful that we have a good health because it just shows you being with the disabled children how grateful we should be for having good health. I really enjoyed my weeks work experience. But don’t think I would be able to do that job for the rest of my life as it is very repetitive. I think that work experience week is very beneficial as it lets you see what the job you were thinking of doing when you leave school what it exactly entails. Like for incidence I wanted to work in a nursery but after the weeks work experience I have decided that the job isn’t for me. And if I didn’t go on work experience then I would probably have trained to be a nursery worker then when I’m fully qualified and in the job realise that it isn’t for me then I’d be back at square one again. Whereas after being on work experience I have realised that that particular job isn’t for me and now to go down a different career route than the one I was thinking of.