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Hi, I’m John. I still live at home with my mum and dad, but they’re great. My dad is kind of oldschool, so he wanted me to get a job as soon as possible. I love cooking, so I decided to become a trainee chef. And that’s what I do!

I think it’s a great job and one day I really want to open my own restaurant. I watch all the cooking programmes. My family can’t get enough of my food. My Christmas dinners – legendary.

I love football, obviously. Me and my mates are in a pub team, and we’re quite good, but I don’t think we’re going to get signed anytime soon. And I play pool every Friday, but that’s more to get to know Sarah a bit better. To be fair, she did look pretty impressed with my guitar skills at the open mic night, so...

And I think I’m pretty good with technology. I mean, I’ve got a smartphone and I’m never off social media. I look up all my recipes online, and I buy everything off Amazon anyway.

I think the main reason I’m doing this course is that, I think it’s about time that I just get my head down and put in the work to further my skills and my career. That does mean I have to study again. I mean, I left school early, so had to retake my GCSE Maths recently, which kind of reminded me what it was like to study, but I need the extra qualifications.

Ben, my mate, recently finished a course online. And he said he found it really difficult, because he wasn’t used to it – doing it online. So he suggested to me that I build up my skills before I start working on my qualifications.