Daniel Clarke
Fiona Inglis and Sam Wilson have a lot in common. Both started out studying sciences – infectious diseases for Inglis, zoology for Wilson – before switching to web development; both began apprenticeships at Edinburgh software business Forrit during the coronavirus pandemic; and both have gone straight into the third year of Edinburgh Napier University’s software development degree. Yet they have never met.
Thanks to coronavirus, their experience embarking on a new career – from finding jobs, to being interviewed and then inducted – has been handled remotely. That has brought a whole new level of strangeness to the working lives of a couple of twenty-somethings who, until early 2020, had been used to mixing with people.