Paul Smith was working at a furniture store in Wollongong when he saw an advertisement in the local newspaper that would change the course of this life
A few years after graduating high school and a year working at a coal mine in Queensland, Paul got a job selling furniture.
“That was a really important phase of my life because it was the first time I’d ever worked in retail, and it was a great founding for sales because I was right at the coalface.”
But Paul knew something was missing from his life – he wanted to be doing something different
Paul saw an advertisement in the local newspaper for a new program at the University of Wollongong (UOW), a Diploma in Sports Science.
“It was like they’d written a course description for me. It was described as an opportunity for mature-aged students or people with skills in sports to enter a program at university,” Paul explains.
YOU CAN READ ALI BOYDELL’S FULL STORY HERE