GB News host Eamonn Holmes has revealed the one job he thought he would "always do" despite wanting to be a journalist from a young age.Opening up on his childhood career aspirations, the Breakfast anchor told cohost Miriam Cates that "no one believed in him" and his desire to be a journalist.FULL STORY HERE.
00:00Now, Aidan, I was just looking there, that headline that we're doing about youngsters don't know what they want to do,
00:06they don't feel ready for work after school or whatever, I'd have to say no one prepared me for work.
00:14And, you know, I don't think it was a good thing.
00:16I do think I would love to have, you know, somebody guided me in the right direction or whatever.
00:21But the thing is, I always wanted to be a journalist.
00:23Yes.
00:23But nobody believed in me.
00:25No.
00:25People would go, you want to be a journalist?
00:27Yeah.
00:27But anyway, what do you really want to do?
00:29Well, there's a few points I'd say on that, because I go into schools now and talk about careers.
00:33And I'd say the biggest assets any kid can have, irrespective of their attainment level at school,
00:38how they're thought of by their peers and their teachers, is knowing what you want to do.
00:42I knew what I wanted to do from the age of nine years old.
00:45October 11th, 1996.
00:46See him on me.
00:47But not everybody is going to know that, are they?
00:49No, not at all.
00:50Not at all.
00:50But it's a huge asset.
00:51But I think that teachers have a responsibility.
00:52If they see a child have an aptitude in one particular direction, try and encourage that as much as possible.
00:59I knew a kid in my class who was interested in farming.
01:01We lived in Gillingham.
01:03Yeah.
01:03Our farm, our nearest farm must have been 20 miles.
01:05Yeah.
01:05But I suppose it's difficult to kind of push him in a different direction.
01:08I'm not sure what he ended up doing.
01:10But, you know, I just think if you know what you're doing, if you know what you want to do or have an idea, an interest, you should be pushed that way.
01:15But even if you don't know what you want to do, I think there's real value in just getting any work experience at all,
01:20whether it's a Saturday job in a shop, a paper round.
01:23It teaches you so much.
01:23But I think now the problem is we've raised the school-leaving age to 18.
01:26We've put in all these regulations about national insurance and health and safety.
01:30And lots of employers just don't want to take on a 15-year-old or a 16-year-old.
01:34It's too risky.
01:35And so there just isn't the experience out there for kids to just have a go.
01:38I worked for my parents, so it wasn't a real job.
01:41I was treated a little bit differently.
01:42Did they pay you well?
01:43No, £3.50 an hour.
01:45My dad was the only bloke who increased wages when the minimum wage came in in 97.
01:49Well, I always thought I was going to be a barman, really, realistically.
01:53I mean, that's what I worked out for when I was 16.
01:55And I enjoyed it.
01:57I liked it very, very much.
01:59But, you know, I wanted to be, you know, my mother just told me to go out and get a job.
02:04I said, I want to go to journalism college.
02:05She said, you get out and get a job, you'll bring a wage into the house.
02:08And I went out and I worked for Primark.
02:11Did you?
02:12Primark, yeah.
02:13And I was a trainee manager there.
02:15And I hated it.
02:16Did you?
02:16It was horrendous.
02:18It was good because it taught me that I so don't want to do that.
02:21And retail was so hard.
02:23And at the end of the year, basically, I said goodbye to Primark.
02:27I said to everybody else, you can all do what you want.
02:30I'm going to journalism college.
02:32I'll work in the bar.
02:33I'll bring you money in from the bar.
02:35That's what we're doing.
02:36End off.
02:37And that's what I did.
02:38And maybe it made me more determined.
02:40Well, I worked in a cocktail bar.
02:42And this woman came in.
02:43Were you working as a waitress in a cocktail bar?
02:45No, I wasn't.
02:46I was trying to be a barman.
02:47But anyway, this woman came in and ordered a margarita.
02:50I'd never heard of a margarita cocktail.
02:51I thought she made a pizza.
02:52I said, we don't serve food till six o'clock.
02:55Well, we look forward to whatever it is you want it to be that hopefully it happens for
