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- 1. Choosing my education andHow I becamea Teachera Nutritionista Journalistan Entrepreneur Katrina Atherton
- 2. Does this sound familiar? ‘You don’t know how lucky you are.’ My Dad Everyday
- 4. Lived in Mansfield Woodhouse
- 5. Attended St Edmunds Primary School and Manor School
- 7. Truck Driver
- 8. Princess
- 11. Year 11 Career Goals Teaching
- 12. Choosing my A Levels I wasn’t good at one particular subject + I still didn’t know what I wanted to do as a job = Another weird mix of options
- 13. Year 12 Career Goals Nutritionist
- 14. I couldn’t be a Nutritionist because... Biology AS Level Grade D
- 15. Choosing my degree I was good at English and being creative + I wanted a creative job + I had a weird mix of options = Creative writing
- 16. Success!! After meeting the lecturers at the University of Leeds I was given an unconditional offer to study there But after visiting the school and meeting the other people who were going to study the same course, I wasn’t sure it was right for me...
- 17. Success-ish... After visiting Nottingham Trent, and seeing what was on offer there I really wanted to do the Broadcast Journalism Course The required grades for entry were BBB I got BCC...
- 18. University
- 19. University Career Goal Journalist
- 20. Starting a business by accident During my studies I was out and about filming People would ask who I worked for and how much a film would cost I offered film work to friends and family to practice my skills I saw a good opportunity to earn some money to spend on clothes help my studies A friend with other skills agreed to help
- 21. Starting a business with purpose After we saw the potential of what we were doing we got advice to do it properly We wrote a business plan, got an office, and started marketing ourselves We re-invested a lot of the money we made at university to get our own kit A Star Media was born!
- 23. The future I want my business to grow, so that I can reach my goals My goals change all the time, and I know that one day the business might not be the best way for me to achieve them I know now what I want to do in the near future, but like my education choices, I also know lots can change
- 24. What I’ve learned It’s okay to change your mind Not achieving what you thought you could feels horrible, but it’s a good lesson to learn Going with your gut is important Always set yourself a goal, however small, to give yourself something to work towards
- 25. And finally...
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- How often are you told by an older person ‘you don’t know how lucky you are?’ or ‘if I had what you had I wouldn’t complain’ or ‘you don’t know you’re born.’Well I’d argue that we all know how lucky we are, if we didn’t we wouldn’t be here today.If you didn’t realise the opportunity you have at getting an education then you wouldn’t be here, so well done.I’d also argue that we’re not as lucky as the older people around us would like us to think. Thanks to them there’s no money left, and we’ll have to work until we’re seventy. Thanks to them the natural resources of the planet are all used up and we’ve got to find new ways of doing things. Thanks to them not having enough babies we’ve got an aging population we’re all going to have to look after. And if somehow we manage to get by and finally retire, we’ll have the flood to look forward to because of all the global warming.We know we’re lucky, and I’d say all the older people don’t know how lucky they are to have us to help them clear up the mess they’ve made.
- So, who am I?My name is Katrina and I’m 23. I’m born and bred in Mansfield, and when people ask me ‘why do you stay here’ I say ‘because I like it’, and I do.I went to St Edmunds Primary schools in Mansfield Woodhouse and as a small child I had aspirations to be a truck driver, a princess, a police officer and a nurse.I was too short to be a truck driver and a police officer, too common to be a princess and the sight of blood makes me pass out, so a nurse is out of the question.So when I went on to big school I had to find a more realistic goal.
- When it came to choosing my GCSE’s I didn’t really know what to go for. Some of my friends were really good at particular subjects so the choice was easy for them, but I wasn’t good at one thing in particular. I also had no idea what I wanted to do when I left school.I asked my teachers and family what they thought I should do, and most of them said that if I’m going to study something for two years I should take subjects that I like, so I did.I ended up with a very odd bunch of choices...
- In year 11, when it was time for work experience, I decided that teaching was the career for me. Mostly because I really admired the teachers at my school and I like telling people what to do.I did two weeks work experience at two different schools and it was really really hard, I’m only short so the kids thought I was one of them and so did the other teachers and it was really tiring, the teachers had so much extra paper work to do!After my work experience I had a much greater respect for teachers, and decided to leave them to it!
- When it was time to choose my A Levels I was back where I started. And this time with my jumble of GCSE’s some subject routes were closed to me.Again, I decided to study the subjects I enjoyed so that I knew that the next two years would at least be fun, and that maybe it would lead to a fun job.
- In 6th form I decided I wanted to be a nutritionist, I found it really interesting and there was more and more press about the growing rates of obesity. I also really liked cooking and, again, telling people what to do. The perfect career choice! But...
- To study nutrition at university I need a biology A Level of at least a grade B, and I didn’t get it!It was a choice of staying on at sixth form for another year, or finding a different career goal.
- I went back to the drawing board to think of what degree I could study, that would get me a career that I would enjoy.After looking through UCAS and getting the results of a few questionnaires I decided that creative writing was the choice for me. This way if I ever wanted to be a novelist I could try, but I could also get more realistic career options as a journalist or copy writer.
- I applied to the creative writing course at the University of Leeds and was given an unconditional offer!But after visiting the campus and the other people who would be on the course with me I was very worried, I didn’t feel like I fitted in, and I wasn’t sure it was the right place for me.
- I went to see the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism, which was my second option.Because it was in Nottingham I went with my best friend, and we turned up with lots of shopping bags!I really liked the course and the people who were applying to go there seemed really nice, so I had my heart set on Nottingham Trent.I needed to get 3 B’s to qualify for the course. I got one B and two C’s!But, I’d done lots of extra stuff at school. I was head girl and I used to volunteer to help out at local schools, and my teacher had written me a really good reference, so they let me in! Yay!
- I loved university! I did lots of extra things and made lots of friends, it was brilliant.But at first I thought I’d made a horrible mistake, and nearly dropped out in my first week. I missed my old school friends and I didn’t think I would make any friends because in the first year I lived at home and commuted every day.My granddad encouraged me to stay, and told me to give it four weeks, I’m really glad I did because it turned out to be brilliant!I graduated with a 2:1, the first one in my whole family to go to university and get a degree.
- Because I studied Broadcast Journalism at university, I really wanted to be a journalist. The course was hard, and we had to do the work of real journalists every week, as well as work for at least three weeks in real newsrooms.I worked for the BBC and the Guardian Media Group. I covered news stories, and made a documentary about youth crime, where I visited prisons and interviewed the inmates. I found being a journalist a real rush, but it is very hard, and there’s a saying that ‘if it bleeds it leads’. I can remember a news editor getting really excited that there had been a very brutal assault in the city, and they had an interview with a witness.I couldn’t really cope with being happy when bad things happened to people, but I knew I liked the media, so I started thinking about jobs outside of journalism.
- While I was contemplating whether being a journalist was right for me, I sort of started a business by accident.As the demand for our low cost films grew, we saw some potential, and as the jobs market started to shrink as we were reaching the end of our degree, we decided to make a go of it.
- After graduation we launched A Star Media.We graduated in the summer of 2008, getting part time jobs to help support us we started going out to meet people and sell our services.In December 2008 we quit our jobs, took the business full time and moved into our first office in April 2009.We invested the money we’d earned into getting our own kit, so we didn’t need a bank loan. Which was very handy, as the banks had just gone bust!
- The past eighteen months has been really fun, and we’ve been working really hard to get our names out there and get some work!
- I don’t know what the future holds! Someone said that reaching to your goals isn’t one long race, it’s lots of races one after the other, and it really feels that way for me.I do know that I want to be happy, and I want my friends and family to be happy too. If I do anything that makes me, or the people who are important to me, unhappy, then I’ll stop.
- The biggest lessons that I’ve learned are the following:It’s okay to change your mind, and it’s okay to quit, as long as you don’t stop achieving things. It’s important to be happy in what you’re doing.Failing at something feels horrible, but being able to pick yourself up and go at it again shows that you really want it. If you fail at something and you don’t care, you didn’t want it enough.If you have a gut feeling go with it, it’s there for a reason.Set yourself goals all the time, even if it’s something small, it gives you something to work towards and it’s a good feeling when you achieve something.
- Finally, I think confidence in your choices and what you’re doing is a hard thing to achieve.It’s like a balloon. It takes a bit of time getting it right, a lot of effort in making it grow. Once you’ve built it up it looks really good.And it only takes a little prick to ruin it.Good luck in your choices, and look out for the pricks.