Eric had passed the 11 plus and went to a Grammar School. But it didn't suit him. He had little interest in an academic education and at the first opportunity he left to start work as a coal miner. Eric was identified as a young man with promise and was encouraged to take qualifications and ,eventually, he became a mechanical mining engineer. A serious job in a serious workplace. He had assumed that his career would be spent in the mining industry but  by the 1990's the government had closed all the mines and Eric needed to find alternative employment and further qualifications. Eric's story shows that it's hard to predict where life will take you when you are 14  but with hard work and some flexibility it's amazing what can happen.

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