I did ok at school and college but failed my Erasmus year in Nancy. I think I was the first UCD international commerce student not to pass. I had a great social life but rarely made lectures, though my French was good.
When I left college in 2002, I followed my Italian girlfriend at the time to Florence and worked in an Irish bar for a year. Then I moved back to Dublin to work in different areas of finance, which I did not love. I really didn t like the bureaucracy of corporate life, and I have worked for myself since.