HOW DID YOU FIRST BECOME INTERESTED IN WORKING IN EARLY YEARS – HAVE YOU ALWAYS WORKED IN THE SECTOR?
Childcare wasn’t my first job! I’ve had a few, starting off in catering in a pub, moving onto McDonald’s, then into retail, before a period of unemployment. The seed was sown when I met my previous partner’s niece and nephew who were nervous around new people – but with me it was a whole different story! They instantly wanted to be around me, and their mum commented ‘you should do this for a living’. So when the Job Centre asked what I wanted to do, I said early years childcare. The next thing I knew they had booked an interview with a nursery where I used to go to school in Essex. Twelve years later I’m at The Oaks as an acting deputy manager.
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