Weekly Meeting - Carole Capper

15 October 2020 Zoom Meeting – Carole’s job talk

To change the format somewhat we thought we try a ‘job talk’, and managed to get a willing volunteer in Carole Capper

Before Carole started a bit of Club business took place: Steve Carson declared that Christmas was cancelled this year! Alan F. gave us an update on the 50/50 Club in that 37 numbers had been sold and only 7 Rotarians still to respond.

Carole gave us a brief insight into her childhood in that she had attended several Convent schools and thus decided she did not want to go to college or University.

So she started work in Martins Bank (Midland then HSBC) in Whitehall, London. She then moved on to become a secretary for BUPA, then the Institute of Directors, she mentioned a Jazz Club in Oxford Street and was obviously ‘Living the Life’.  But her fiancé wished for them to escape from London, moving to Bracknell, where she worked for ICT (Fujitsu), then working as a Laboratory technician in a chemical department at a local school, for which she had no qualifications, but managed to dowse some mercury in sulphur a there was no room in the fume cupboard, she also mentioned some lithium exploding to the ceiling, she obviously had some impact!

She mentioned that her husband was working in Norway. She moved on into contract work, apparently closing down Radio rentals, then moving to her beloved Devon.

Derek thanked Carole after she handled a number of questions thrown at her (although no one asked why she kept changing her job so frequently, it was probably individual circumstances of the positions she held and in order to 'move up the job ladder' in her area of work, it was necessary to change jobs.)

Derek felt that this type of meeting was a great improvement and asked for other volunteers and for Roy to check out the District list of Zoom speakers.  Nicki from Tara’s Angels had indicated at the recent event that Jane and Maggie had organised had offered to speak to Club.  David V. suggested that it might be interesting for people to talk for a few minutes on their memorable experiences, or the most interesting person they had ever met..

This ended the meeting on a positive note and it will be interesting to see what happens next.     AR