Dropping out of college for a job in a garden centre went down like a lead balloon with my parents. But it really helped prepare me for the real world
I started my career with a Saturday job at a garden centre. I was studying for A-levels but I hated college, so I dropped out – which went down like a lead balloon with my parents. I went to work at the garden centre full time over the summer.
By the end of the summer I realised I probably ought to do some training. It was that wonderful thing of being a teenager and feeling like you know everything then having to eat humble pie.
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