Glenn Jarvis

I didn't have much of a plan.

I could never really envisage myself being an economist.

I was a bit lost when I was a young bloke.

I didn't really belong to any kind of group at uni or school.

I kind of flitted between them all.

The car guys, the country boys at uni, a few of the blokes who liked to, you know, smoke a bit of pot at uni.

I used to hang around with them a little bit as well.

So I was kind of just all over the place a bit, I suppose, when I was a young fella.

My first real job was working in a store in Sydney for a company that built the Foxtel cable TV network down in Sydney and around the country as well called VisionStream.

It was a fantastic job.

All the streets were being dug up and duct was being put under the streets.

But being a cable hauler itself was a very cruisy job.

We had a quota of work that we had to do per day.

It was like 200 metres per man.

And on a very good day, you could knock that over in half an hour and be off to the beach or wherever.

Well, the first time I only spent half an hour at work.

I went home and I sat on my couch at Panania and I thought, what am I going to do?

Exactly as you said.

So I went down to Cronulla and I went to the beach.

But eventually I just decided I was going to get into sailing.