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The Apprentice Duncan Morrish
Duncan.Morrish@aspen-waite.co.uk
Rather than a doom and gloom story, AAT Apprentice Duncan gives us an insight as to how this time has allowed him to readjust his career plans and has given him a new, exciting path to move forward on. There are two things that spring to mind when I hear the word ‘apprentice’ – Alan Sugar pointing at someone uttering the immortal line ‘You’re Fired,’ or someone fresh from Sixth Form/college who has their career insights nailed down. As a 24-year-old university graduate, I’m not quite Lord Sugar and I’m definitely not fresh from Sixth Form – but in June 2020, I started my journey as an AAT apprentice with Apsleys; now Aspen Waite South West after the merger at the beginning of this year.
As a hockey and cricket enthusiast with a penchant for an all too regular restaurant visit, there is much I can say the pandemic has not allowed me to do – weekends once filled with trips up and down the country are now filled with a short walk to the shops or a run around the block. What it did enable me to do, however, was rather unexpectedly reshape my career path and allow me to kick on in a new and exciting role with Aspen Waite South West. I had, in the months before I took on my new role, been at a bit of an impasse with regards to my ‘career’ – whilst I was enjoying my previous job, I was unsure as to whether it was something I wanted to be doing for the long-term. In seeing the chance to undertake this apprenticeship, my curiosity was piqued – the idea of returning to education isn’t always the most appealing, but it seemed a challenge too good to turn down, and thus the journey began.
