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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
Kieron Goldsborough

Selling cheese sandwiches is in our DNA

It feels like many moons ago now, but I can still remember that feeling of sheer joy, excitement and hope when walking off the stage with a scroll in my hand at the end of my Degree Graduation. Sadly, memories of the night out that followed are long since gone!

However, those feelings were pretty short lived (once I’d got over the hangover) and replaced with terror, when the stark realisation of the near impossible task of getting a job in the creative industry dawned on me.

I was one of tens of thousands of graduates now vying for roles at precious few agencies across the land. After hundreds of letters (yes this was pre-email and that make me feel old) I was lucky enough to get a job (and I mean lucky) and the rest, as they say, is history.

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