Henrique Olifiers - Head of Game Development
Henrique Olifiers is Head of Games at Jagex software. Family and friends would have laughed at him if he had told them he could make a living out of his hobby of making computer games. So he worked as...
David Constable - Warehouse Operative
David Constable works in the warehouse at Spicers, a office supplies wholesaler. He picks stock from off the shelves and takes it to the loading bay for sending to the company's distribution centre. He...
Trevor Hayward - Shift Manager
Trevor Hayward is a Shift Manager at Spicers, an office supplies wholesaler. But he started off qualifying as a toolmaker, then became a design draughtsman. But he realised he enjoyed his casual work in...
Jean Gunter - Quality Executive
Jean Gunter is responsible for quality at all eleven branches of Spicers, an office supplies wholesaler. She started studying for a career in nursing, but abandoned that to raise a family. She started...
Peter True - Guitar Maker
Peter True designs, makes and repairs guitars and teaches others how to make them. He is based at Cockpit Arts. "I was an Architect, I had a fabulous time. I did everything from small scale conversion...
Delia Scales - Stained Glass Artist
Delia Scales is a Stained Glass Artist based at Cockpit Arts. She came to this relatively late in life, after many years of office work. "I wish really that I'd had better careers advice at an earlier...
Cameron Steer - Branch Manager
Cameron Steer is the Branch Manager for Europoint in Glasgow. They sell screen printing and sign making materials. He worked in a bank but found it boring, and was persuaded to go and work in a paper merchants...
Ben Woolf - Sales Manager
Ben Woolf is a Sales Manager for The Paper Company, the defining moment in his life was when several people he knew died in accidents when he was a teenager. He decided that life is too short, and he got...
Scott Delaney - Assistant Construction Manager
Scott Delaney is an Assistant Construction Manager at Bovis Lend Lease. He's been a market trader and a black cab driver, but of all his jobs he realised he liked construction the best, so he went to...
Sarah Cooke - Design Manager
Sarah Cooke is a Design Manager for Bovis Lend Lease, she wanted to be an architect at school but failed her A levels and took a glass design course instead. "I thought, 'What am I doing here? I've...
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