In my experience, employment agencies in central Brighton and Hove will offer Warren Nichols (Letters, July 5) a narrow future.

He would be thrown into telesales or customer services at the first opportunity because such jobs are at a peak and there is a fortune to be made for agencies who place staff.

This is not Warren's future, as he has shown by his eloquent letter.

He appears to have a head-start over many of the self-proclaimed uneducatable youth who leave our schools in droves and he must remember to stay on track.

I say to him: Think seriously about who you are and who you want to be.

If it feels as though you don't know where to start, so much the better - that means you can do anything you want.

Do not compromise your dreams and thoughts by confusing them with what is available at the time of looking.

Without serious qualifications, you may either be fortunate and land a decent role within a company or have to study to gain such a qualification.

The choices are all yours and learning to train people to answer phones, I hope, will never be part of your future.

You need to focus ten years ahead, which at your age is difficult but for which there is masses of help and advice available for that very reason.

Take full advantage of it and try what you like. You have time on your side to wander a bit but the sooner you focus your efforts the better.

I started to focus my efforts at the age of about 30 because I never asked for help and am now unemployed. I and many others wish you good fortune for your future.

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