Patrick murphy: Putting experience to work

摘要

I wanted to be a vet because I grew up in a farming area near Ipswich, but I found I had an aversion to blood, so I looked at other ideas. My dad was a railway ganger, but I didn't relish the Ipswich railway scene at that time, so I did engineering at Queensland Uni. My first 'vac-prac' was at the old Moreton Shire and I loved it. But there wasn't a job there after uni, so I went into water supply at the Department of Local Government. It was a great experience - I went everywhere from Brisbane to Thursday Island, but gained my best experience in Gladstone, which was becoming a major industrial town and bristled with water supply challenges.