A D A Y I N T H E L I F E MANDY SOUSA
08:00 My day starts off by driving into work with Christine ‘Nanna’ Coates, as we’re both from Middlesbrough and like to car share. We listen to Smooth Radio and sing along all the way. 09:00 Lauren makes my first cup of coffee in my favourite cup which reads ‘DRINK COFFEE, do stupid things faster with more energy’! In the meantime, I set up my laptop and have a look over my emails before having a morning catch up with my team, including Lynsey from the Ferndown office. 10:00 Catch up meeting with my bosses, Ant & Dec (aka Toni & Gillian), about what is happening in the Consumer Events Department. A hot topic of conversation this week is the Bournemouth Show that happened in February. It really was a fab day and this is reflected in the bookings and feedback.
11:00 Mihai makes me my second cuppa – can you see a theme here? At this point in my morning I like to do some planning for the next Holiday and Cruise Show coming up. Our next one is Norfolk, which will be held in March, so the focus is on the marketing aspect to let customers know which of our suppliers will be attending. 12:00 I usually have my lunch around this time and respond to some more emails. More often than not I am on some sort of diet. My favourite one is the ‘Military Diet’, although I don’t think that the rest of the office feel the same as it involves eating A LOT of boiled eggs! 12:30 I put on my pink trainers (which look great with my black tights) and go for a power walk with Christine around Sunderland to burn off some of those
NAME: Mandy Sousa.
AGE: 50 something.
JOB TITLE AND WHERE YOU’RE BASED: Consumer Events Manager, Head office, Olive Street, Sunderland.
HOW LONG IN THE JOB: Almost 3 years.
HOW LONG IN TRAVEL: 10 year s.
PREVIOUS JOBS: Business Development Manager at Trinity Mirror. HOBBIES: Holidays, Gin, listening to Luther Vandross, bit of Pilates & my grandkids . BEST THING ABOUT YOUR JOB: Giving the news to the charities that have been successful in their grants from the Hays Travel Foundation.
Mandy and Mihai.
WORST THING ABOUT YOUR JOB: Mihai’s jokes!
Mandy and Lynsey Makanvand.
Mandy and her other half.
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