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Blaise Lamport

Blaise Lamport

Blaise Lamport is a solicitor apprentice at Jisc, studying LLB with the University of Law, who shares gap-year and apprenticeship career journeys on Prospects' Future You podcast.

Sep 2, 2026

7:20
Like, was there a cost behind, you know, picking up and moving to Germany? And even though it was for employment, did you have to get like visas in place? Did you have to book flights, like things that might not be attainable for people that perhaps don't have that sort of money? Yeah.
7:36
The biggest cost was the visa.
7:38
And the issue with the visa was there's two German embassies in the UK or two that you can go to if you live in England or Wales.
7:45
Depends on where you live to depend on which embassy you have to go to.
7:48
So I didn't know this at the time because it's very unclear.
7:51
So I went to London, which has a German embassy.
7:53
And then they said to me, why not the embassy for you? And I thought I literally booked an appointment like and I've paid to come back.

15 MINS LATER

22:41
I suppose my last question would be, was there ever a moment during your gap year where you would compare your journey to your friends and have any sort of regrets or panic that they were in a different place to you?

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