Eamonn Holmes reveals the career choice that ‘no one believed’ he could do: ‘It made me more determined!’
GB News host Eamonn Holmes has revealed the one job he thought he would “always do” despite wanting to be a journalist from a young age.
Opening up on his childhood career aspirations, the Breakfast anchor told cohost Miriam Cates that “no one believed in him” and his desire to be a journalist.
As the hosts reflected on a new study, which showed that half of 18 to 24-year-olds “don’t feel ready for work” after leaving school, Eamonn shared his own experience of discovering his love for journalism.
Eamonn said: “I was just looking at that study about youngsters who don’t know what they want to do and they don’t feel ready for work and after after school or whatever, I’d have to say no one prepared me for work.
“I don’t think it was a good thing, I do think I would loved to have somebody who guided me in the right direction.”
Revealing the career he “always knew” he wanted to do, Eamonn admitted: “The thing is, I always wanted to be a journalist, but nobody believed in me.
“People would go ‘you want to be a journalist?’ and then say ‘but anyway, what do you really want to do?'”
Recalling a clash with his mother over his plans to go to journalism college, Eamonn revealed that he was made to become a barman to bring money into the household.
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Eamonn explained: “I always thought I was going to be a barman, realistically. That’s what I worked at when I was 16 and I enjoyed it, I liked it very, very much.
“But my mother just told me to go out and get a job. I said I want to go to journalism college and she said, you get out and get a job, you’ll bring a wage into the house.”
Telling Miriam and broadcaster Aidan Magee of another job he started to earn money for the household, Eamonn continued: “I went out and I worked for Primark. I was a trainee manager there and I hated it, it was horrendous.
“It was good because it taught me that I don’t want to do that, and retail was so hard and at the end of the year, basically I said goodbye to Primark.”
Revealing what he did next, Eamonn concluded: “I said to everybody else, you can all do what you want, I’m going to journalism college. I’ll work in the bar, I’ll bring you money in from the from the bar, that’s what we’re doing. And that’s what I did. Maybe it made me more determined.”
Revealing his key bit of advice for school children, Aidan Magee told Eamonn: “I go into schools now and talk about careers, and I’d say the biggest assets any kid can have, irrespective of their attainment level at school, how they’re thought of by their by their peers and their teachers is knowing what you want to do.
“I knew what I wanted to do from the age of nine years old in 1986, and not everybody is going to know, but it’s a huge asset.
“And I think the teachers have a responsibility, if they see a child have an aptitude in one direction, try and encourage that as much as possible.”