Hi guys!

I just wanted to share this and hope it’s helpful to someone! I recently asked my Mum to send me copies of my school exam results (GCSE’s 🇬🇧) and oh boyyy they put things into perspective.

I wasn’t great at school, I wasn’t the worst but I wasn’t the best - I sat in the middle in most subjects. I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I left school or what I wanted to do as a job...what 16 year old does?! My peers were mostly all high achievers and got A* to B’s where as I got C’s - E’s...

I went to college, studied photography and passed. I started uni and dropped out and got a full time job as an admin assistant. It sucked...I wanted to do something creative so I quit my admin job and went to work as a graphic designer at a magazine. With no official graphic design qualifications I started at the bottom and learnt how to be better. The problem was, they wouldn’t progress me, even though my skills were great and I was producing good work. So I left...and decided to do freelance graphic design to build a portfolio.

At this time, my now fiancé was at university doing photography and went on to gain a 2:1 degree. I felt deflated. Who would ever take me seriously with crappy grades and no official design qualifications?

Somehow, I managed to bag myself a marketing assistant role with in a large European company solely with my portfolio. With in a year, my manager and the marketing director had left the company and my MD asked me to take on all the marketing activities for the UK alone...for a multi million pound company...alone. 2 years on, I have an assistant, I’m contributing to profit, creating great work and meeting big players in the industry.

My MD is a lot like me, he left school with a few qualifications and started from the bottom...there’s the inspiration, the dudes a multi millionaire for sure.

I’m really proud of myself, honestly. I had no idea what I wanted to do or where I’d end up. I imagined not having any sort of career and ending up bored in a job I hated for the rest of my life. You can do anything and be who you want to be and work with what you have at that moment in time.

I feel like we put too much pressure on young people to know what they want! I’m a firm believer that it’ll all work out when the times right. I never believed that...but I do now!