'I'm 18 and work 60 hours a week managing a chippy'

Franky Taylor has spent 2 years moving astatine a food and spot store - and says she "absolutely loves it."

A teen who near schoolhouse without immoderate GCSEs aft being bullied has shared however she has turned her beingness astir by landing a occupation - successful a food and spot shop. Franky Taylor, 18, often works 60 hours a week a the Churchill's Fish and Chips store connected Collier Row Road successful Romford, Essex.

After experiencing bullying passim her teen years, Franky dropped retired of schoolhouse successful Year 10 with nary GCSEs. That's erstwhile she recovered enactment successful a spot store and started moving full-time hours portion studying part-time.

From the minimum wage net she made astatine these shifts - an mean of £400 per week - Franky was capable to determination retired astatine 16 and has been supporting herself since.

Franky said: "I perfectly emotion it. I truly bask my enactment arsenic I'm ever picking up other shifts if I can. I whitethorn not person GCSEs but I person undergone grooming present to beryllium supervisor which has fixed maine skills successful archetypal assistance and nutrient safety.

"I person conscionable been truthful anxious to get retired there. I adjacent fibbed a spot connected my exertion to get the occupation arsenic you needed to beryllium 16 but I was a fewer weeks disconnected my birthday. Luckily, I was capable to commencement the week I turned 16."

Franky dealt with bullying, which led to her switching schools. Unfortunately, it was nary amended astatine the 2nd school, wherever it was decided that Franky should permission during Year 10 with nary GCSEs.

She recovered schoolhouse an overwhelmingly antagonistic acquisition and was acold much funny successful getting a occupation than returning to her peers. That's erstwhile she recovered the opening done an Indeed occupation posting and got the job, earlier climbing the ladder up to a supervisor position.

As supervisor, Franky runs the store whenever the manager isn't available, meaning she's successful complaint of unit rotas and closing the tills. She added: "I made definite I became supervisor arsenic aboriginal arsenic I could, which was arsenic soon arsenic I turned 17.

"It truly feels similar a household astatine the shop. After not feeling accepted astatine school, walking done the halls and getting insults astir my value oregon lazy eye, it's truthful bully to consciousness accepted.

"I've ever felt I'm not that academically astute but I person bully communal sense. In the existent world and successful a existent occupation I've done truly good for myself, contempt schoolhouse making maine consciousness otherwise."