We three girls went along with the rest of our year and pupils from other schools to a Skills Festival at Kingston Maurward.

We interviewed Lucy who is a former engineer and has many A-levels and a couple of GCSEs under her belt, and David. They are both students at Kingston Mauward College and are studying nature.

Their aim is to try and introduce young students to the countryside.

Lucy cleverly put her point across saying: "As global warming increases, the butterfly species will decrease, and without butterflies there will be no flowers. It is all needed in the web of life."

David also said the best part about his job was being outdoors and they both agreed that learning about nature was definitely the way to go if we want to keep our world the way it is. Lucy confirmed what all of us school kids fear that she still gets 'homework'. Their course is finished they will have both gained a National Diploma for the Countryside.

We also interviewed Laurence Stone who is a lecturer for animal care and is here today to promote the Kingston Mauward College.

His main project is marine ecology and he says 'the best thing about my job is going on field trips! But the worst is preparing lessons'.

He explained to us that his job has offered him great people skills. Laurence gave us an insight into the range of options of work that we can take when we're older. However, he also said that getting into his type of work isn't easy, it's best to start with voluntary work.

Overall, the people we interviewed gave us a great taster of the work they do, and gave us lots of valuable advice about how to seek the career we want. Although, we're not sure we could get as excited as Lucy did about some undigested owl food!