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My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons

My Duvet Flip ft. Kevin Ellis , Chairman, PwC UK

My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

Business, Careers

4.25 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Send us a Text Message.Welcome to My Duvet Flip, where we get real with everyday people who are way more inspiring than those out-of-reach celebrities. Each episode, I chat with industry leaders and find out what makes them flip their duvet and face the day. Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kevin Ellis , Chairman, PwC UK. It's going to be a super interesting convo full of all kinds of learning and insight.But seriously, hit subscribe to stay in the loop about new episodes,...

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0:00.0

The Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. opportunity to work with us and i've worked there all my life. I didn't intend to, but I'm still here now.

2:51.9

Wow. That was brilliant. Well, 1% of the workforce. Yeah, in the UK, yeah.

2:56.9

Isn't that incredible how the nightmare behind the scenes trying to go through all those

3:01.7

kind of, a lot of clever people with big systems.

3:04.7

Absolutely. So I want to to start because I always start with

3:08.3

this question because I think it's really important a lot of young people at home a lot of

3:12.4

people on LinkedIn will be thinking but feeling a bit lost with what's going on in the world

3:16.8

and we'll get on we'll get on to that in the minute but we'll keep her politics out of it

3:21.0

yeah what was your first job what did that job teach you and what did you

3:27.0

wish you knew before joining that job that you can pass on to?

3:31.0

Yeah, first job was actually delivering double glazing leaflets actually in the holidays.

3:36.0

I grew up in Chinquford, kind of East London and around the estates with my mate. I think probably the first thing it taught me, I suppose like most people's first job,

3:44.1

is actually all quite hard because you kind of think,

3:46.7

because you're paid by the number of leaflets you deliver.

3:49.0

And so you kind of work out in your head that you can deliver probably at four times

3:51.7

many as you actually can because it always takes a bit longer than you think by the time

3:55.5

you're going. So I think it's that kind of realizing that the reality of life is slightly harder than you imagine from a distance.

4:03.0

That was probably the most shocking kind of thing to me in that first job.

4:06.3

I did other little holiday jobs working in a council departments and stuff, which were fun.

4:12.5

But really until I actually kind of started to work at PWC when I was

4:16.0

21 straight out of university

4:18.2

that was probably

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