Stories... Welcome to e2e] What is e2e?] Stories] Contacts] Before I started with DISC I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I had been kicked out of school and couldn’t get a job. I knew I’d made mistakes but I wanted another chance. I spoke to my Connexions PA and she told me about e2e, I didn’t really want to go but I thought it was worth it for the EMA money. Ive been on e2e for 2 months and Ive had a brilliant time, the sessions are good and everyone gets on. I feel more confident now and its not just about the money anymore. I have got a literacy qualification and I will be doing my Maths next. I hope that I can get onto a college course this year and Im looking forward to it. I left school with good GCSE’s; I got all my grades I wanted. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do at the time I thought I wanted to be a beauty therapist, so I went to college to do a beauty therapy course. I did the fist term and realised it wasn’t for me, I left the course and was unemployed for 4 months only having my Saturday Job. Everyday was just the same, I was getting bored, just staying at home day in, day out. I felt like my life was going nowhere and that I was just wasting my time doing nothing. I started to get depressed; I just wanted to be out there doing something with my life. I heard about e2e and decided to give it a go. It has helped me to be more confident within myself and the learning co-ordinators help you to apply for jobs and prepare for interviews. It took some time but now I’ve got a job working in my local leisure centre and I’m starting up on a life guard course. Before I came to e2e I had no direction in my life, id dropped out of school with no GCSE’s. I thought that was it, and getting a job when you’ve dropped out of school isn’t easy. I knew college & sixth form wasn’t an option as I hadn’t got any GCSE’s and knew I wasn’t motivated enough for a full time job. Staying at home finally got to me and I became increasingly depressed. Realising I couldn’t do what my friends were all doing, eventually I discovered e2e from a friend and I’m now hoping to go on to a work placement at a hairdressers and if that fails e2e doesn’t have a time limit and offers help and support, time and time again.