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I moved 250 miles at 16 to work at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Lancashire Post
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12/02/2025
I moved 250 miles at 16 to work at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
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Hiya, so I'm Laura, I'm a Mechanical Engineering Apprentice in my second year. So, when I first
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went for this job I was 16, I sent an email to the pleasure page, I explained who I was,
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why I was asking, if they still ran their apprenticeship programme and sort of all the
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small details like that and they got back to me, they wanted to meet me, so I drove
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the 200, well my mum drove me the 250 miles up here to meet two women from HR, they liked
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me, I got shown sort of around some of the workshops and then I was invited back to do
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two days of work experience, so I came and did two days of work experience and they liked
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me enough to offer me an apprenticeship which was an incredible feeling because I've always
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loved roller coasters, I've always loved engineering, so to combine the two passions at the park
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I've wanted to work at my whole life, it was brilliant and my mum and my dad have
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changed their whole lives just so I can have the career I want and I mean this job, it's
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unlike any other job you will ever find in the world, it's very much we have two jobs,
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we have our seasonal job where we go out, we check the rides, we take shouts, we just
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do sort of little things here and there and then you've got your winter job where you're
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stripping trains down, you're rebuilding them and it just, it adds a lot of variety, a lot
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of other jobs you might get say five tasks that you swap between, here we're having breakdown
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shouts we've never heard of before and rides that have been open for 30 years and it's
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incredible and I mean working on stuff like Icon which is brand new all the way to Big
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One which is 30 years old and Big Dipper which is 100, it's just, it's a once in a lifetime
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job and I can't wait to spend my whole working career here, it's just incredible.
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