Vocation Vocation Vocation
Chetan Kotur, will be a television star for a day. On Wednesday, 14th November Channel 4 will devote a full programme to him and his career dilemma in their production ‘Vocation, Vocation, Vocation’, screened at 9.30 am.
Chetan, who is studying A levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry at QE, was brought to Channel 4’s attention by Stella Barnes, the College’s Higher Education & Careers adviser. Channel 4 contacted Stella asking for information about any student who had a real career dilemma and Chetan immediately sprang to her mind.
Chetan explains:
"I have always been interested in car design and won a competition for it at secondary school. However, a lot of people in my family are doctors and I thought that I would follow in the family tradition."
Over the course of almost a year Channel 4’s team filmed Chetan inside and outside of College and tracked his experience and decision making. They gave him chances to find out more – taking him down to the Jaguar design studio at Whitley, near Coventry and he engaged in work experience at the Memorial Hospital, Darlington over the summer.
Chetan continues:
"The whole experience of filming Vocation, Vocation, Vocation was incredible and I have now made a fully informed decision – I’m going into car design."
Chetan, from Aycliffe, is now concentrating on his A Levels as he needs good results to secure a place at Loughborough University to do automotive engineering. His ambition is eventually to work as a car designer for a prestigious company such as Audi or Ferrari.
Stella Barnes comments:
"When I first interviewed Chetan and appreciated his dilemma I advised him to follow his heart rather than his head. I am so pleased that Vocation, Vocation, Vocation has helped him come to what I consider to be the most appropriate decision – and he is going to follow his heart."
November 12, 2007