Sefita Hao’uli - Sunday News
A change of career late in working life (they retire younger these days) can be rewarding in unexpected ways. Like being called “poppa” by teenage classmates at ATI when forced back to school to learn to type, spell and do shorthand. And leaving them to find your workmates calling you the “oldest
teenage in the business”. Namecalling aside, there are personal rewards about the job which far outweigh any misgivings I might have about switching career. Variety, travel, meeting people from all walks of life. Top it off with a pinch of creative talent and work can sometimes be a holiday. Since joining the Sunday News here
in Auckland, I’ve never looked back to the day I quit a secure job to go back to school. And my advice to any youngster who’s undecided about a career take more than a passing look at journalism. Your chance of making it should be better than an aged teenage Tongan who started off with only a smattering of English.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 9, 1 December 1982, Page 22
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171Sefita Hao’uli- Sunday News Tu Tangata, Issue 9, 1 December 1982, Page 22
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