“The benefit of apprentices is their enthusiasm and the new ideas they bring into your business”

Athinaengland

It all started when I was three years old, and my grandad bought me my first computer. Those were the days before we had internet and the floppy disk was the only way of loading my favourite programs. I was fascinated by anything computer-related and could often be found dismantling and rebuilding them on his dining room table. Miraculously, we always managed to find the right parts to put back together again.

In secondary school I studied ICT, but was told I wasn’t allowed to do computing at A Level because it wasn’t a subject for girls. This made me move away from my love of computers towards the sciences, as I felt it was more of a girly subject. I stopped fixing computers myself and relied on others to do it for me.

At 18, I started a management degree at the University of Lincoln, but the course wasn’t for me and nor was living with people who left