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blossom helped me follow my dream

by Sophie

As a child I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. I was adamant throughout high school and into college that I wanted to be a children’s nurse. My mind was made up until I got to 18 and started to look round Universities and everything changed. From this point on, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do.

To begin with I got a job at a playgroup that was run out of my church. This closed not long after I started and I went on to run a breakfast and after school club in a primary school and then became a TA and continued down that road for a time. For a while I had an idea that I wanted to open my own nursery with wrap around school provision so went to do a degree to help with this. When I got to the end of this I had once again changed my mind having worked out a business plan. I was slightly directionless and fed up with just ‘going through the motions’ of working. I left my job and my home and went on a gap year with a church in Watford, with the hope that this would help me decide what I wanted to do next.

After my gap year, I came back home and went into another TA role in a primary school. This job wasn’t the job I left before my gap year. The school I was in wasn’t what I needed and I struggled, being unhappy in the role. At this point I was a little lost with where to take my life and my church leader suggested that I take up a place on the blossom programme. I hadn’t heard of it before so was a bit sceptical, but also knew I needed to do something to be able to change direction.

I started the course and had no idea what to expect. I enjoyed the group sessions and the fact that I could see that I wasn’t the only one not knowing what I was doing. For me however, the best part was the coaching sessions.