Having spent a magnificent week's work experience last summer at RAF St Mawgan with ATC, I highly recommend to anyone looking for aviation-related work experience that thay give the RAF a thought.
Over the course of the week, I got to help (or hinder, I suppose) the assistant controllers, to sit in a Tuccano trainer, to fly the Sea King simulator they've got there, and to stand on a rather flimsy platform whilst leaning over the cockpit of a Typhoon (whose squadron just so happened to be based there for the week). These and countless other events culminated in one of the best weeks I've ever had.
When I compare watching Europe's most advanced fighter (I'm not French) rocket up into the sky from the vantage point of the control tower, to the coffee making and spreadsheet filling of my classmates, it brings a very BIG smile
to my face.
Maybe I was just amazingly lucky. Definitly in fact.
But I would say give it a try.