Simon 'Blue' Robinson
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And that adjusted the way I thought about
I was going to go back to a very wealthy, very organized island, and I didn't feel comfortable doing that.
So I applied for a job in childcare, and that then led to a job in London in a girls' residential school as a team leader there.
It was hectic.
There were a lot of fights.
There was a lot of violence.
There was a lot of riots.
And the girls had been abused.
They were troubled.
They'd been rejected.
And they were angry with the world.
And I had some amazing colleagues.
And there was a school on the grounds and we ran the residential side.
And it was about order.
It was about getting a routine into their lives.
It was getting food into their lives, nutrition.
And sometimes it worked.
Quite often it was just chaos.
But you just kept going.
I was in a normal meeting with a colleague and one of the girls and the girl just got up and fractured my colleague's jaw.