“I worked out early that people were my best asset and investment”

What was your first job?

I started in retail at the age of 16. I got a job at the local Just Jeans store and I absolutely loved it from the first moment I joined. I loved customers, I loved selling, I loved clothes, I loved learning, and at the end of that year I told my parents I wasn’t going back to finish school. I’d been offered a full-time job. My parents hadn’t finished school themselves – they hadn’t had that opportunity. They were