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You’re here to operate cranes on construction sites. You’ve passed the courses and earned the qualifications. You did the interviews and got the job.
Now you’re thinking it was a big mistake and that you should go back to recruitment, even though the money’s way better here.
You’re the only woman in the room.
Switched-off obtuseness
That’s Katie Kelleher’s story, as she tells CIOB People editor Nadine Buddoo in the latest episode of the 21CC podcast.
You don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the sheer, switched-off obtuseness that greeted Kelleher on her first day in 2015.
In the end, though, you laugh because she helps you see the hilarity of this bizarre way of welcoming new people to the industry.
She admits she might not have stuck with it had she been a bit younger and a bit less confident. But she did stick with it, and thrived, and is now a valuable voice in the industry.
Check out this funny, uplifting conversation. It’ll do your spirits good.
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