Why I try to be like Tess McGill
Just watched "Working Girl" - one of my favourite films, and not for the hair or shoulder pads.
Firstly, it's about breaking free of where you are told you "belong"
Well, as much as I love my family and I have come to love my "home town"
I was never going to stick around and take up the safe and steady job in the Commonwealth Bank.
In fact on the day of the Aptitude Test, I got a Spiral Perm instead. (it was 1986)
So like Tess I crossed the water to the big city. For Tess it was the Staten Island Ferry. For me it was QF1
which in those days went Singapore, Bahrain and then London. No stopovers.
I used the education I had, and made the most of it. I have never been to night school like Tess. But I did do a few weeks of Japanese and a First Aid Certificate. When I wanted to be an Air Hostess. (it was the early 90's, it was a glamorous job in those days)
But mostly I just learned as I went along, took on extra responsibility where it was offered and …
Firstly, it's about breaking free of where you are told you "belong"
Well, as much as I love my family and I have come to love my "home town"
I was never going to stick around and take up the safe and steady job in the Commonwealth Bank.
In fact on the day of the Aptitude Test, I got a Spiral Perm instead. (it was 1986)
So like Tess I crossed the water to the big city. For Tess it was the Staten Island Ferry. For me it was QF1
which in those days went Singapore, Bahrain and then London. No stopovers.
I used the education I had, and made the most of it. I have never been to night school like Tess. But I did do a few weeks of Japanese and a First Aid Certificate. When I wanted to be an Air Hostess. (it was the early 90's, it was a glamorous job in those days)
But mostly I just learned as I went along, took on extra responsibility where it was offered and …
