Charles Bain Email & Phone Number

I ran away from boarding school when I was 15 and got sent back the next day, but it was my first taste of making my own decisions in life.My time at boarding school was short-lived (3 months in total) but it remains an experience etched in my mind and something that continues to pop up in my dreams many years later. I was extremely privileged to be given the opportunity to even experience such an education, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t make it fit. This is when, I decided to take matters into to my own hands, so me and my bags slipped out the bathroom window early in the morning and left. At the age of 15, this felt like escaping from Alcatraz and I felt like the world's most wanted man – in reality, it took the school almost 12 hours to notice I’d even gone… I was barely back in Aberdeen long enough to explain my actions before getting sent back up, but it didn’t matter.Doing what I did that day, took every ounce of strength and bravery I had. I was still a minor and had no real voice in the world. The idea of me, making a decision to run away, back to where I loved was just a dream, a warm fuzzy, comforting notion to keep me sane during my down times at the school. That was until I made it happen. That concept of making the seemingly impossible, possible has stuck with me ever since. From career changes to starting my own business, to running away from boarding school, the idea of making pipe dreams come true is, to me, life's ultimate challenge - and by association, one of life's great pleasuresThis thinking, in both my personal and professional life, has led me to where I am today, and I look forward to where it brings me next. I should finally add, this thinking plus a great deal of help from many along the way.

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  North East Scotland College

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