Sue Towner
Helping you channel your full potentialMy Story
I started work too many years ago, analysing sausages for David Greggs supermarket chain. It almost put me off sausages for life! I decided I wasn’t cut out for a career in science and turned to accountancy, working up from book-keeping to qualified. In between I tried other work – I ran a junk shop but I think I’ve kept most of the stock; I ran a club and if that made a profit, I probably drank it! I have made mistakes but at least I tried I don’t have to look back and say “if only”.
It’s never a failure, keep your nerve
It’s just a blip on your learning curve.
Now it’s time for another new try, hoping to help others starting out to avoid the mistakes I made and encourage them along their chosen path.
In between all this work, I have made time for hobbies – vintage motorcycles, grasstrack and speedway plus the new pastime – my greenhouse. Now that really is a learning curve! I have had a try at riding a speedway bike and thought I was really fast, until I saw the video afterwards so it was back to the day job. I love reading – mostly detective novels but I only really read two magazines, The Economist and Speedway Star.
It’s been a varied career path but I have certainly had fun along the way.
My Approach
I love being involved and meeting people, I mentor with Young Enterprise and the Beyond Barriers initiative with Kingston University and I think I shall learn more from my mentee student than I could teach her! I’m chairing the new Celebrating Chessington group and have signed up for the Friends of Churchfields – starting out with some tree planting.
