Icould.com is a website that might be an important resource for you, especially if you want to learn from the personal experience of others.

Icould gives you the inside story of how careers work. The icould storytellers relate, in their own words, their real life career journeys. There are nearly 1000, they are easy to search, they are very varied and each is unique. Off course the storytellers are not only in the RES sector, but from all type of careers.

The website provides filmed interviews with people who explain their experiences working. The idea is to help you make the most of your potential and talent, by showing how others have used theirs.

The icould website shows how real people, from all walks of life, manage and achieve fulfilling lives. Icould film stories show you career journeys, covering beliefs and influences, chances taken or missed, good luck and bad, life-changing events, objections and obstacles overcome, changes of direction, skills discovered, passions followed, achievements and failures.

All the icould storytellers reveal how opportunities, circumstances and events throughout their lives have shaped their career. The icould stories are also grouped into themes to help you search by different themes.

Here are examples of the different themes you will find on the website :
 1st in higher education (4)
 Academic disappointment (81)
 Adult learner (130)
 Adversity (90)
 Apprenticeship (42)
 Balance (239)
 Blossomed after school (38)
 Came to UK (57)
 Changed career (217)
 Changed employer (149)
 Childhood aspirations (257)
 Disability (12)
 Discrimination (9)
 Enjoy work (249)
 Faith (18)
 Family stories negative (69)
 Family stories positive (326)
 Finances (65)
 First career decision (352)
 Followed passion indirectly (7)
 Help from others (131)
 No plan (97)
 School stories negative (185)
 Stress (34)
 Turning point (326)
 Volunteering (49)

http://icould.com/watch-film-stories/stories-by-life-theme/