Attending her first ever job interview at the age of 16, Lauren Disney felt terrified and took her mother along for moral support – even relying on her to do the talking.
“I had just finished my GCSEs and wanted a little summer job to keep me busy,” Lauren, now 19, said. “It just so happened that a Domino’s was being built in our village a two-minute walk away from where I live.”
Lauren, who lives in Stanton, Norfolk, applied and got a job.
She underwent training but was so worried that everyone else would know more than her, she created flash cards of all the pizzas and made pretend toppings to practice with at home.
She also began watching the skills of others working there and was keen to learn. “Once the store opened, I started off on the make line doing the pizzas. It turned out, because I was practising so much at home, I was more advanced than the others,” she said.
The staff developed a closeness which she describes as a “family culture”, and when the time came for her to start college, instead of treating Domino’s as a summer job, she carried on working there on the days she was not studying. “My college lecturers were lovely and supportive when I said I wasn’t sure what to do. They said I may as well go to university,” she said.
But in the first week of September, Lauren had still not submitted her application.
“I messaged one of my managers as I really didn’t know what to do. He arranged a meeting with me and the franchisee who told me that if I wanted to go to university, that could be a good thing. But he also said that if I wanted to stay, he would make sure he would try to progress me.”
Lauren has learnt lots of new skills since joining Domino’s and has progressed rapidlyLauren chose to stay at Domino’s and has since progressed to become an assistant store manager.
Her experience reflects a wider trend, with new research showing that four in 10 under-35s have fallen into an “accidental career” either by chance or by starting what they intended to be a short-term job.
The survey of 2,000 adults commissioned by Domino’s also found that 59 per cent said paid employment and practical training could offer young people a valuable alternative to going straight to university.
Lauren says she has absolutely no regrets at not going to university: “I was unsure of my future and I didn’t think I should commit to a degree if I wasn’t certain it was best for me. I believe I made the right choice. Within my three years of working at Domino’s, my development both as an individual and job-related has taught me much more than any university could.
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t compare yourself to anyone else as we are all on our own journeys. I believe that university for others may be the best option if they know their end goal.”
‘I was terrified of debt and limited career options’
Jake Fenner, 28, a delivery manager at Virgin Media O2, says he has no regrets about not going to universityJake Fenner, 28, studied a BTec in music. Going on to study music at university was high on his agenda, until he suddenly had a change of heart.
Jake, who lives in Desborough near Kettering, said: “I was partway through my first year at college and I thought, ‘At the end of this, I am going to have a piece of paper which says I can do music.’ I started thinking about career prospects and ended up thinking that perhaps I should have done something different.
“Even though I did well in my Btec and was seriously considering studying music at university, I realised that at the end, I would [just] have a bigger piece of paper saying I could do music.
“It dawned on me that my career options would be limited, particularly as my course was the performance side of music. That, along with the student debt associated with going to university, made me feel terrified.”
Jake says he had a bit of a gap after college where he bounced around entry-level jobs, but the progression up the ladder or the types of jobs were not what he wanted.
He then decided to go into project management, becoming a project management apprentice at Virgin Media O2, and now a delivery manager.
“The starting salary was generous and on a par with the sales job I had been doing so I didn’t even have to take a pay cut,” he said. “The apprenticeship was 18 months long and it wasn’t just an entry-level job like I was doing before, but a slingshot into a full career.”
Jake, who has now been at Virgin Media O2 for almost four years, says he has absolutely no regrets about not going to university: “I struggle to imagine myself being in a more comfortable or happier position than I am in now.
“As well as my apprenticeship, Virgin Media O2 have paid for an additional qualification for me and I am planning to go further into project management roles so it will be onwards and upwards from here.”
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