Russ Cook

what can I do in my own life?

Oh, what a time to be alive that was.

Take me into that room.

I was a bit younger than 21 then, actually.

I would say, when I look back on it now, I'd say that was such a pivotal moment for me.

Yeah, I don't think I necessarily realised it at the time, but it encapsulates a time in my life where I felt kind of directionless.

I had a lot of energy and I had a lot of motivation to do something with my life, but I really didn't know where to apply that.

So I think I was really struggling with that and in that kind of moment, you open the door

the cupboard you got tin of new potatoes for dinner and that's all I had I had no money to get anything else it was showing me my like almost uselessness and it just gave me this feeling of like I know that I'm kind of like I feel like helpless and useless and don't know where I'm going and

but I know I'm at the start of trying to figure that out.

So, I mean, it wasn't for a few years until I really started making any significant changes, but that was definitely a point at the moment where I went, like, one day, this feels rubbish now, but one day this is going to be worth it and this is going to have meaning, this moment.

So how had you ended up

Yeah, yeah.

So I was about 17, 18 during that time.

And I think being... I look back now and I go, being a 17, 18-year-old bloke, I mean, I'm sure a girl as well is hard.

In that moment, I didn't have any skills, didn't have much life experience.

So I was kind of struggling with the fact that I was like, I had all this ambition and motivation, but skill set-wise, I hadn't really...

I haven't really figured out my place yet.

And I was kind of bottom of the food chain, as it were.

So, you know, what jobs can I get?