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writes:Hello. I am currently a first year university student in London studying History. I love history and am really passionate about the subject but have lately been thinking I might like to go in to either police work or social work. What would I have to do? I'm 19 btw.
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reader, Gem86 +, writes (18 November 2008):
 Hello,I would suggest you visit your careers department (im sure every uni has one!).To get into social work you need to have a degree in it. I know this as a friend spent 3 years doing a criminology degree, and has spent another 2 years doing the social work masters. So if you want to do social work, get ready for 2 more years of uni life!! As for the police, I think its much easier, you fill out applications and then u go through rounds of interviews etc.As i said, see ur careers people. All the best :)
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reader, anonymous, writes (17 November 2008): It's great that you are thinking about this at this point.Go directly to the places where you want to work, tell them you are interested in working there and ask them questions about what's like working in there and everything you are curious about. From the receptionist, to the highest level you can get access.Then decide what seems more interesting to you, and ask that they let you help around. Even if you go for a couple of hours everyday, it'll get you a great idea of what working there would be like. Realise that you'll be doing this for free.If you don't have the need of an income, you'll find this as a great way to find what you like, to get experience previous to work, you'll get much more out of your studies because you'll be able to relate them to real situations.Even if at first they don't let you do anything, just watching will be great for you,and as long as you don't interrupt or become annoying, asking questions will let you learn even more and they'll see there's interest in as time goes by, they'll probably start letting you do small things that if you do them well, they'll be more challenging and you might even end up getting a good position there by the time you finish your studies.Might sound like a lot of work but you'll have a great head start, it's better to start getting laboral practice even for free, than to get out of university and then start deciding what to do.
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reader, anonymous, writes (17 November 2008): If you ask at uni about the careers service they will be able to help you. Some of them have computer programs where you type in the things you like doing and are interested in and are good at, and it brings up a selection.You may also like to contact the police force direct and tell them you are also interested in history. There may be jobs that combine the two.
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