What advice would you give to your teenage self?
Let’s be frank, the world of 1999 is very different to the modern age. I got my first mobile phone in 1999, there was no Facebook etc and I think prepackaged sandwiches were a strange novelty.
So telling myself to get to grips with the internet would be a mistake that I did in fact make. My second postgrad was e-commerce which was new and odd at the time. People would ask what it meant and even the experts were not particularly sure. I know that sounds odd in this Amazon age but there we are.
I wonder if I would actually listen to myself in 1999. I would certainly tell myself to get a serious qualification and not look at airy things. Definitely I would tell myself to stop drinking, spending money on nonsense and in general straighten up and fly right.
But I don’t think I would have listened.