From leaving school I joined the Royal Navy after Navy I worked for federal express on there next day night line service from there joined Capitol tiles I started in the warehouse then went to one of there shops to reorganise the warehouse and eventually became manager and managed various shops throughout the group then went to designer studio where we dealt with architects and designers on specification work After 15 years I left and joined Architectural ceramics dealing with specifications after 6 years there I transferred to there sister company Zenith tiles who unfortunately went into liquidation from there I went to TOPPS tiles while at TOPPS I was asked to come back to Capitol tiles on there resilient side and have been there ever since moving into the specification department dealing with Architects and designers on large or small projects.December 2018 Capitol tiles went into administration.