He decided to take another path and has now become a youth worker.
Only last week I wrote about the youth worker Karen Creed made redundant by Norfolk County Council and now operating as a freelance.
Its candidate is a young, charismatic youth worker called Shafaq Hussain.
Amilah Mirza, 21, from Bradford, said it took her four years to break out of the cycle of unemployment in her family and become a youth worker.
Kilfoyle - a father of five and former labourer, teacher and youth worker - first came to prominence when he took on Militant as Labour's north west regional organiser.
Desta Hall, a youth worker at the Lighthouse Centre in Birmingham's Newtown, was one of the first people to take part in the project after meeting a teenager who broke a window at the centre.
Tescan closed down in 1981 and, after a short period of unemployment, Mr Ashdown got a job as a youth worker with Dorset County Council Youth Service, where he was responsible for initiatives to help the young unemployed.
As a youth worker who lives and works on an inner city estate in Manchester, I'd like to add the following to the debate: These kids are like this due to many factors, not just because they are inherently bad.
But those who stood before the courts for bail hearings in London, many of them still in their jeans and hooded sweatshirts, included a graphic designer, a postal employee, a dental assistant, a teaching aide, a forklift driver and a youth worker.
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In the case of abortion, where the young woman is competent to consent but cannot be persuaded to involve a parent, every effort should be made to help them find another adult to provide support, for example another family member of specialist youth worker.
The inquest was told a youth justice social worker tried to move him to a secure children's home just days before he was found hanged there, but there were no beds.
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She then lived for a period in the United Kingdom before returning to Kenya, where she works now as a social worker and youth advocate.
Eddie McClean, a Protestant community worker from the area, denied the youth had been preparing to throw the bomb.
Living in the city of Aalborg, he was involved in a youth club, where he became a role model for others, former club worker Nuuradiin Hussein said.
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At 27, Watkins brings refreshing youth and innocence to a song sung from the perspective of a grizzled barge-worker: Only "a fruit jar full of iced tea" and "a half a day off with pay" provide relief to a lingering heat wave.
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