what did you do for a living – Black History Month 2022

Question: what did you do for a living
- Keywords:
  career
Asked by anon-1639 on 4 Oct 2022.
- John Blanke answered on 4 Oct 2022:
  
  I was an international sales and marketing director. My career started in the 1970s in data communications which by the time I retired in 2005it had became the internet and mobile phone networks.
- Connie Mark answered on 4 Oct 2022: last edited 6 Oct 2022 00:21
  
  I’m a former soldier and Ex telecommunication engineer for Mobile phone networks.
- Julius Soubise answered on 4 Oct 2022:
  
  I’m a senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester.
- Olaudah Equiano answered on 4 Oct 2022:
  
  I was a civil servant for many years until I retired in 2016. When my children asked me what I did I told them ‘I run the country’!
- Sir William Arthur Lewis answered on 5 Oct 2022:
  
  I am currently training as a teacher and hope to go back to study a PhD at some point in the future.
- Anthony O'Connor answered on 5 Oct 2022:
  
  Anthony O’Connor served in the Royal Air force and then became a teacher, deputy head teacher then head teacher.
- Walter Tull answered on 9 Oct 2022:
  
  Walter was an apprentice printer before becoming a professional footballer, then a soldier.
- Stuart Hall answered on 18 Oct 2022:
  
  I spent most of my life working as an academic, though I was also an editor of various journals. In academia, I worked especially in cultural studies, which was a new field. I was interested in the ways that humans understand themselves, represent each other, and communicate to one another.