• Question: What has been your biggest sacrifice to get you where you are?

    Asked by 873mete32 to Andrew, Angela, Eleanor, Emma, Withdrawn on 14 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Andrew Pidgeon

      Andrew Pidgeon answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      I spent a fair bit of time working away from home in city centres to help me build my experience and knowledge. This meant being away from family and friends but I have made lots more outside of my hometown.

      I am now living back home and travel to the city locations when required so things have worked out! Its all about the plan!!

    • Photo: Eleanor Sherwen

      Eleanor Sherwen answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      I had to live in a different city to my partner for 1 year in order to take the Brompton job. At that time, we lived together in a house in York, and my old job was only 20mins cycle down the road, but the Brompton factory is in London.

      For a year I travelled up to York every weekend and was sleeping on a sofabed in London during the week. It cost us loads of money in train tickets and extra rent, about 8hrs travel time a week, and we had to spend most of our time apart and missing each other. It was really rough, and I only would ever consider it because Brompton was such a big career opportunity. We both agreed I had to go for it!

      Anyway, my partner still has to go to York for 1-2 weeks a month because of his PhD, but we now have a flat in London and we live together there, our lives are much more stable. In October he will move to London permanently and we’ll get to be together all the time!

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