My name’s Sam Williams and I am marketing assistant at the Broadway Theatre. My job is to, basically, when we sell the theatre to either a dance school or a big agency coming on tour or a band, for example, I’ll basically have a budget and my budget will be used to sell the tickets, as well as possible and as many tickets as possible.

My name’s Sam, I wanted to be fireman Sam, I suppose when I was younger and watched it on it TV. Now I’ve grown it’s not so much to be that cartoon character but actually it seems interesting. Everyday is slightly different and obviously I like physical work as well and would like to be outdoors and that comes with being a fireman.

Well, I left school when I was 17, I did my AS-levels and then I left, because I was doing sports science and had a knee injury. I was sort of in bed for six months, it was quite a big operation and obviously when I was so sport orientated, that was one major problem because it put a hold to everything. My education stopped, but it’s all happened for a reason and I’m glad it did now because, I earned the money to go travelling to Australia and then I’ve come back and managed to get a job I enjoy and I can see a clear goal of what I want to do by the time I’m 30.

I could be quite laid back; I could be too laid back at times, if you ask my boss. I think in general if things happen that aren’t what you want them to be, then just do them and do them to the best you can. Then when you come out you’ll have something to show for it and you can get something else, so many doors that open when one door closes, like when my knee happened I thought “what can I do?”, but then there are so many other options that are available to you.

In a couple of year’s time, if I’m not at the theatre, obviously I’d like to be a fireman, working my four days on, fours days off. In those four days off I would like to go to college and learn a trade basically, so I’ve got options of where to go if I wanted to go back to Australia.