This week, I had the pleasure of learning more about my wonderful colleague Ray Lawlor. Ray and I both work at The Customer Bureau (Helping iconic brands become customer centric) and a while back Ray approached me with an amazing story, his story. In his words, he didn't know what he wanted to do until he was 30. Ray believes that learning and figuring out what you want to do is a constant process of life and that change is wonderful and nothing to be afraid of. This story is truly wild and I can't wait to share it with you. On this interview we spoke about: * Ray's selftaught journey * From music to television to advertising to engineering (I mean, what?!) * Celebrating scholarship programs * A wonderful woman named Anne * Not being made for formal education * Supporting partners during freelancing and jumping from freelancing to company team member * The importance of having awesome colleagues * Giving kids the chance to be lifelong learners * A chat about priviledge Want to learn more about Ray Lawlor? Here is how you reach him and where you can find his work! LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-lawlor/] Engineered's Website [https://weareengineered.com/] Here are Ray's recommendations: The Customer Bureau [https://www.thecustomerbureau.com/] Rory's Story Cubes [https://www.storycubes.com/en/] Irish Language Broadcast Fund [https://www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk/irish-language-broadcast-fund/] Emma Fanning's episode (one of Ray's favourites) [https://zencastr.com/z/8WEBTgPI] Special thank you to Ro Halfhide [https://www.instagram.com/rohalfhide/] for the music on this show! Want to support the pod? Follow us on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dinschool2b/], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/do-i-need-school-to-be-podcast/?viewAsMember=true]and support the show on Buy me a Coffee [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dinschool2b]. We are currently looking for sponsors, if you know someone or are a local businesses in the Rotterdam area that would like to know about our sponsoring plans, reach out to us here [http://[email protected]/].