Architecture...
I spent my work experience in an architects office that did a lot of work for farms - new sheds and buildings, and redoing the older falling apart ruiins and doing them up into something nice and livable.

We went out one day to survey one set of buildings on a farm, taking basic measurements and photos of all the main dimensions, so a rough drawing could be made up back at the office. Spent the day happily working away, until we got back at least... Someone mentioned some guy driving down the road to the farm, and cars parked next to the neighbouring farmhouse...
'But we own those buildings, nobody should be down there'
'The house looked lived in...'
'Which place did you survey exactly?'
We had seemingly managed to take a wrong turning, and we ended up spending most of the day surveying the buildings of some unknown farmer, almost a pity he didn't appear sometime to say hello...
We went out the next day and did the proper buildings (with nobody driving past and the neighbouring house all quiet and empty).

The other trip out of the office I had, we got to go out to do some surveying stuff, namely checking drainage...
Guess who ended up at the bottom of a seven foot trench pouring buckets of water on the ground and seeing how long they took to dissappear? (to be honest, I didn't really mind doing it at all, as it looked more fun than standing in a field writing down the numbers as I shouted up)

Quite a cool week actually, learnt about some of the stuff involved, and got to work away drawing up an extension to a house (sadly a completed project I was playing with, they never actually built my bit...), and an actually useful and informative placement, compared to some people who ended up working in various shops and the like which had nothng to do with any chosen career paths (Currently halfway through university studying civil engineering)

The amusing bit was the next year in school when we got intoduced to a shiney new computer drawing package we could use, which I had spent the week working with, so I had a better knowledge of it than the teacher (a great teacher who was excellent in every other area we looked at, and fairly capable in the programme too really)
(442, Thu 10 May 2007, 18:33, Reply)