Coffee Date Interview 18 - Paul Monis

 

Name: Paul Monis

Job Title: Aircraft Maintenance Project Manager

1. When is your most productive time of the day? 

Afternoon, between 1400 and 1800

2. When you were little, what did you want to be? 

A foreign affairs journalist

3. What eats up most of your time at work? 

Chasing responses to queries

4. How do you relax / wind down after a hard day at work? 

I cycle to and from work most days so find that the perfect stress reliever.

This is what happens when you say to
your sister in-law (ie.me!),
"you can use any photo of me". 
Paul's first day at school with
 big brother Andy (ie. my husband)

5. What are the 3 “nevers” in your life?
Never assume someone has understood your point regardless of what they say!

Never leave a junior colleague unsupported or feeling vulnerable

Never assume that the current way of doing things is the best way

6. What drives you crazy at work? 

People who don’t complete their actions before the next meeting, then sit there surprised when they get questioned on progress, it drives me mad!

7. When the going gets tough......? 

Trust your instinct, most often your initial judgment will be the correct course of action.

8. What song will guarantee to make you feel better? 

It’s a Wonderful Life by B.O.T.A.R

9. Star Wars or Star Trek? 

Neither, I never really got sci-fi to be honest!

10. Countryside or Seaside? 

Seaside

11. Ketchup or Brown Sauce? 

Ketchup

12. Pudding or Cheese and Biscuits? 

Can I have both?

Yes of course you can bro in-law...I'm baking later on today in fact! 

Lisa x