Talk to Years 5 & 6 at St. Mike's School, SW18

Child-friendly story of my career & what I have learned

Transcript

1. My Story
2. My school
3. My university
4. Choosing a job?
5. I became a programmer
6. It got complicated.
7. and more complicated…
8. so we left and raised some ££
9. and then some more
10. PCs looked like this in 1982
11. then Bill showed up
12. and things became more complicated…
13. so we borrowed some ££ from Bill
14. to turn those into these
15. that was a good idea… …for a little while
16. so the chairman wanted a change
18. I wrote a book
19. and then Phil showed up Why I work hard…
20. online shopping was a good idea
21. but Phil wanted his ££s back
22. so we sold the company to a catalogue printing company
23. which started going bust
24. so they sold it to us in 2008
25. but it was losing £50,000 each month
26. so we had to make changes
27. and sell hard to get new customers
32. What have I learned?
33. “The harder I practice, the luckier I get”
34. People skills matter
35. Read this when you are a little older
36. Organisation pays
37. You need a good manager
38. Treat people well
39. You can’t always get what you want… http://youtu.be/WbjZA3aAH3s?t=49s