You know, You know, Good afternoon, everyone, it's Jack Parsons, the CEO of the Youth Group and the UK's Chief Youth Officer.

We're here today with a special guest to talk about all things careers

and how you can get ahead.

So, Nikki, how are we today?

I'm good, thanks. It's great to be here.

And you've got your peppermint tea?

I have, yep, always have a peppermint tea in the morning, for sure, mid-morning. Mid-morning peppermint tea i have yeah always have a peppermint tea in the morning for sure mid-morning mid-morning yeah i want to start and i always start here because i think

it's so important because this kind of gets you into the professional world and where it all started

where did you start your first job that first professional job that paid you, and what did

that teach you that you wished you knew before you started?

So, I mean, my first ever job was actually on a stall in a covered market, but I wasn't

there for very long because I guess you could say I kind of got head hunted I sold a lady a skirt

and she owned a florist and she said why don't you come and work for me to cut a story very short

I went and worked for her and did sort of weekend work and I thought there's a business idea here

and I actually started my own business when I was 15 I could see see, like at that point in time, you'd

go to hotels and restaurants and they'd have these really quite like manky flower arrangements.

And I thought I could do better. And so I pitched to one of my uncles to loan me some money,

which he did at interest rates, I've got to say. And I created my own little business and I got a contract of a local hotel,

which was great. But my big lesson, because it was hard juggling, you know, doing school

work, working every single evening on the business and getting up at five in the morning

at weekends to get all the flowers and do the flower arranging.

It was actually through this hotel I got a contract to do, it was a big deal at the time,

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