(单词翻译:单击)
Speaker Five.
发言五
Woman:Although my grandparents and uncles ran a shop for many years, I really didn't have much contact with the business world.
虽然我的祖父母和叔叔们经商多年,但我实际接触这方面的机会很少。
I started my working life in nursing which I enjoyed a great deal, and then I had what I felt was a life-changing experience.
我的第一份工作是护理,我非常喜欢护理,我觉得这是一次改变人生的工作经历。
In my late twenties, I applied to go on secondment overseas to work for four months in a remote rural hospital.
快30岁的时候,我申请了海外借调,在一家偏远的农村医院工作了4个月。
It was there that I saw some marvellous work being done in setting up small-scale businesses run by local people-mainly in the production of handicrafts for catalogue sales.
在那儿,我看到了一些很棒的职业,当地人经营小企业,主要从事手工艺品的生产和销售。
I saw a lot that I felt could be applied in my own home environment.
我看到了很多我觉得可以拿来自己用的东西。
Anyway that's how I got started.
不管怎样,我就是这样开始的。
I had a few hiccups at the beginning, mainly in trying to co-ordinate the huge amounts of customer information, but now we're well established.
起初我有遇到一些小问题,主要是在大量客户信息的协调上,但现在我们已经解决了。