I’m working fulltime now. I’m an administration Assistant at British Home Stores. I finished fulltime education, I think it was in 1986 and I did a year of college after that, but unfortunately theory-wise I’m not brilliant, so I went and got a job. And since then I’ve been bringing up my son. So that was basically my education.

I went to college for 5 years and studied catering and I’ve also done computers, so I’m now computer literate. And I was doing woodwork as well, and I’ve done a few summer courses for catering as well, which was really good.

I’ve suffered with depression for a long time and it was through the mental health trust that I got back in to education because I’d become very isolated with life in general. They suggested it would be a good move for me to go back to education. And that’s how I started, and I ended up stopping there for 5 years, which was really good. I did enjoy it; I’ve got to be honest.

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