What will I do when I grow up - says the 45 year old woman!
What will I do when I grow up? (Says the 45-year-old woman!)
I have always rather envied those people who have a burning
vocation; they knew the career they wanted to follow and went
for it. If, like me, you have never really known what you want
to do, the years fly past and you still have to earn a living.
But doing what?
I did well at school and it was assumed that I'd go onto
university. I wasn't happy at home and being keen to move out I
end up leaving school after 5th year to study for a degree in
Hotel and Catering Management at Strathclyde Uni. Well my heart
was never really in it and I dropped out after 1st year, against
all advice.
I went to live with my aunt in north London and found a job in
the newsagent's kiosk in the Strand Palace Hotel. I was very
keen to visit Greece. I'd a very romantic notion of it. None of
my friends were interested so it was either go alone or not at
all. I saved up from my meagre wages and booked an open return
on the coach to Athens in June 1978. I think it cost