icould

Emily Fallon

EMILY FALLON

00:00:07 Hi. I'm Emily and I'm icould senior project co-ordinator. I work for a charity in Cambridge called icould and we specialise in filming career stories for a careers website which we'll launch in spring 2009.

00:00:22 There's about five, six of us in a team and I have to make sure that we're all at the same place at the right time and that's also coordinating with the production companies to ensure that the day goes smoothly and that the whole process from start to finish is done and completed on time.

00:00:42 The part of the job I enjoy the most, probably the satisfaction of seeing the actual video once it's been edited at the end, because it shows that all the hard work you've done has actually gone into that story and it looks great.

00:00:54 I don't think working for a charity ever, it never crossed my mind at all. I still don't know what I want to do long term and I didn't know when I was younger. I mean I always thought I wanted to be a mid-wife. I really like babies and then that seemed the most logical step to become a mid-wife, and then it sort of progressed on to being a nursery school teacher. For me I think there wasn't enough money in doing that, but I'm still open to do that if something comes along in the long term.

00:01:27 At school I was really academic. I was, you know, sort of the typical A-grade student, and then I, because I went to private school with my sister who's eighteen months younger than me, and then in 2003 my parents split up and it meant that we both had to change schools and got to a state school which was quite different, and that was just before I started my second year and GCSEs. So that was quite a big change for me to do. And my dad was left with me and my two sisters and I mean the youngest one was two at the time, so I became sort of a mother figure I suppose, to look after them rather than look after myself and focus on my academic side of life.

00:02:19 Everything worked out because I still worked hard to achieve my grades, but it just wasn't as important to me as my family. Whereas all my friends were worrying about what they're going to wear to go out, you know, the next night, and whereas it was like, ‘ooh, I might have to look after my sisters and...’, and I think that changed perhaps my social side of life changed, but I don't regret that at all because my sisters needed me and that was just the most...the best thing to do.

00:02:46 Initially I thought I was going to go to university and I applied for university, got my place, got the grades to get into university, and I thought, ‘oh, defer it for a year’. So I went out and got a job and I never thought about going back to university or going to university. I went and got a job at Kensington Charity College in London and was taken on as a department secretary, and that was like nothing I'd ever done before.

00:03:14 I got a lot of responsibility and a lot experience out of that and then they quickly sort of said, ‘oh, you know, you can run the office now’. And so I was an office manager there and that was all in the space of a year. And then I moved to icould.

00:03:24 Outside of work I enjoy shoe shopping. I have about...over a hundred pairs of shoes, well over a hundred pairs of shoes, should I say. Every time I go and buy a new pair, my dad and my boyfriend say, ‘I'm going to buy another pair to replace them’. I just love shoes.

00:03:41 I think they're really pretty. When I get dressed in the morning I always say, ‘ooh, what shoes am I going to wear today? and then play my outfit round it. I haven't made any or haven't got a long term plan. I think, take each day as it comes and experiences as you can and opportunities as they arise. But I mean, long term I'd just like to be happy and successful I suppose, as would probably most people.