Half the time I work as a producer, reporter and presenter for World Business Report. The other half I spend enjoying the camaraderie of night shifts as a business presenter for the World Service's Newsday programme. My working life started as a waitress at the age of fourteen, hauling plates at the local pub. But after a lot of hard work, including a history degree and a post-grad in broadcast journalism, I landed jobs at Bloomberg Television and then BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Now I'm lucky enough to be sent off around the world reporting on stories, from the likes of Tanzania, Japan, and most recently the Gaza Strip.