This week marks the 33rd year since I finished my Allied Dunbar sales-associate course at their training centre just outside Swindon.
I determined to stick it for three years, and when I reached that milestone, I thought, well, two more and after those five, I said goodbye on a Friday afternoon, and the usual heads didn’t even look up – so I stuck out my hand, and walked.
I’ve learned over these years that I can spot winners by instinct, and I sense losers and chancers just as easily. And so to Adam Lindsay Gordon, the poet who was born on my road, and left here to become an Aussie Cowboy 170 years ago.
“There comes a point in your life when you realize: who matters, who won’t anymore, and who always will.”