Length of time in industry | 34 years OMG |
What do you like about your role? | In the very early days I loved finding out about all the clever things Word Processing was capable of and showing other people what it could do. ~I also always liked taking a very broken document and fixing it up. Nowadays I enjoy the challenge of continually improving a service that the business is entirely dependent upon. |
What is challenging within your role? | People! Word processing is (usually) logical and rational. There are right ways and wrong ways to do things. People could do anything and they usually do. |
What advice would you give someone starting out? | Don’t worry about your long term career – just concentrate on being the best you can be at everything you do and the rest will follow. And keep smiling – it’s not a job to be taken seriously. Nobody is going to die because of anything you do with a keyboard. Unless you hit them over the head with it and even then you’d have to be very unlucky to kill them. |
If you weren't working in legal, what do you think you'd be doing? | I always wanted to be a professional footballer but I’m not sure I had the legs for it. |
Tell us about an "average" day, or if every day is different tell us about a recent day | Meetings, meetings, lunch, meetings, meetings, home. |