After 15 years of secretarial work in various industries, I decided to broaden my horizons, went back to college at 32 and got a BA (Hons) in Business Management & Organisation (2:1) as well as qualifications in Promotional Practice, Marketing Operations and Effective Management for Marketing with the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
During my degree I had to write many assignments on business issues such as managing employees, recruitment & selection, change management, information technology and marketing and also completed a dissertation on "Stress in Mature Students".
Armed with my degree I got a job as Marketing Manager for a small pub chain. Having developed a taste for writing whilst at college I manoeuvred myself into writing regular press releases for the company, a bi-monthly newsletter, advertising copy and website content.
Three years later I was made redundant due to relocation of the company's head office and went to work as a part-time HR Administrator for a group of residential care homes getting some hands on experience of Human Resource issues.
Missing the regular writing assignments I decided to enrol on the Writers Bureau Creative Writing Course and got hooked!
As well as writing about business and marketing, I am also interested in writing articles for publications whose readers are interested in issues such as parenting (tots to teens), marriage, sex and relationships, pets, films/tv and travel.