At school, aspiring athlete Olivia Woodward threw herself into as many sports as possible. After university, she joined a much bigger team – the railway.
我们聊致Olivia关于她对数学的热爱，改变和她收到的最好的建议。
在这个视频中观看奥利维亚：
“I always wanted to be the best.”
“如果你对某些东西感兴趣，而且你对它充满热情，那么你将与它相处。”
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在我们的电影中观看奥利维亚和同事，为黑人历史月2020年，改变游戏
What’s your job?
I’m a finance graduate so I joined the scheme [in 2019] and I’m currently in the cost and volumes team. So we assure and report on the renewals volumes that Network Rail delivers so this involves periodic reporting, reporting to the [Office of Rail and Road] and giving commentary on what the routes and regions have underdelivered, the reasons way… and we try to articulate that to the regulator.
你觉得自己做一些重要吗？
一百百分之一。这是让我上班的激励。如果我觉得我为某事增加了价值，而我的工作正在前进，并帮助在业务中更高的决策，或者在业务中更低，这是我知道我正在做的事情正在帮助某些东西，这是有影响力的。
Has anything surprised you about the railway?
它太复杂了。我没有意识到它有多大。当我在大学时，我会从A到B开始火车然后进入铁路，我现在意识到许多不同的部件从一个站到下一个驻地进入火车。看到这一点以及所涉及的所有资产和所有人民都真的很有趣。这只是令人兴奋的思考。
你觉得自豪地在铁路上工作吗？
一百百分之一。When people talk about the railway, whether good or bad, I think, ‘do you know what? I’ve had a part in that.’ Whether it’s small, I know what it’s about and I know how important the network is in getting people to their jobs, to their family.
你的角色总会有新的事情吗？
铁路非常大，你永远无法知道这一切。总有一些你可以去探索和学习更多信息。
从天到日，它总是改变。无论您是在轨道上工作，无论您是在办公室工作，铁路的一次变化都可以从日常到日期移动整个工作角色。有一天，你可以看一些东西，发生了一些事情，你需要获得行政长官的所有这些信息......特别是这家公司，这里你是毕业生还是exec，之间没有障碍。您可以联系他们，您可以联系，您可以帮助他们，这真的是积极的。
Is it important to you that you’re in a job where you can make a difference?
I’m passionate about making a change, whether it’s on a person or whether it’s something that I deliver. It’s something really important to me that I know I’ve actually influenced something and I’ve made a difference somewhere, throughout everything that I do, really. I think it’s what motivates me and it’s definitely something that drives me every day to work harder.
你想成为孩子的是什么？
[像很多孩子，运动员还是足球运动员，这绝对是梦想一段时间。但我真的很喜欢学校的数学，所以我认为'在某处有核算或工作的潜力。我不知道开始，但我绝对就知道了Maths-Y是对我的。
What were you like as a child?
所以当我在成长时，我真的很运动。我参与了尽可能多的运动，但我在学习中也非常竞争。所以我总是想成为一切，无论是数学，英语，我是否喜欢它。我一直想成为最好的，我总是必须在课堂上完成。
您是否有任何榜样成长？
我的榜样将永远是我的兄弟。He was really good at sports, really good at school and it was definitely something that when I was growing up, he was eight years older than me so I always knew, ‘he works really hard, if I work really hard, I can be just like him’. To this day, I think I still want to be like him a little bit.
I had a teacher in sixth form who was my economics teacher and he really opened up a completely different world. He was like, ‘do you know what? It’s going to be difficult, an economics degree, but if you do this …’ and he really talked me through economics.
这对我来说是新的，但我知道我喜欢它。享受是一切的重要组成部分，但如果你只是坚持下去并在它努力工作，那么你就可以和我设法出来的顶级成绩，这对我来说真的很改变第六种。
你希望你在学校所知道的是什么？
当我在学校时，我希望有人告诉我它将最终锻炼。你会弄清楚你在合适的时间所需做些什么。无论它是什么，你会到达那里。
What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
When I played football, I was told, “Don’t practice until it’s perfect, practice until you can’t get it wrong”. If you’re reliable, and you’re trustworthy and you can always deliver to a high level, that’s something that’s really important.
为什么改善铁路上的多样性很重要？
This industry is typically known as being dominated by white males. And there’s not anything necessarily wrong with that but we have to move with the times and in order to get change, we need more equality, from different views, from different people. It can change the way the railway is run …
It’s important to have diverse communities in the workplace because you need groups where people feel they’re at home, where they feel comfortable, that they can speak up, whether it’s talk about how they feel or new ideas they have in a space where they feel comfortable.
我也认为这很重要，因为这些人将成为孩子们的榜样，你需要从学校和大学那里驾驶它，那些看起来像我在这些行业工作的人，所以我也可以做到这一点。这是一个需要变得更加普遍的事情，并通过拥有更多样化的社区，这绝对是我们如何做到的。亚博账号登录
你会告诉一个年轻人会怎么样？
无论你认为你是否不容适意，你是否认为你是否没有看到那样有用的人，你是否没有看到那里，你就没有理由，你不能打破这种模具。您可以成为未来人民的角色模型......您可以将一些完全新的东西带到这一点，这可以改变该行业的游戏，无论是铁路还是不是。所以你只需要采取机会......如果你对某些东西感兴趣，而且你对它充满热情，那么你将与它相处。
你希望铁路在你的职业生涯结束时对工人的构成看起来像什么？
I can hope that we don’t have to have the conversations that are uncomfortable or we don’t have to count how many of certain ethnic groups or women are in the railway. I hope that’s not the case. It might be a push, it might be a long, long way away but … we can definitely make positive steps towards that, that it’s the norm …
是否成为任何想要机会的人可以获得它的规范，如果它们足够好，我认为这就是每个人都应该的目标。希望世代通过可以推开任何一种系统障碍和那样的东西，这阻止人们想要进入他们觉得它们可能不适合的机会。
所以我真的希望是这种情况 - 每个人都觉得他们可以进入他们想要进入的任何东西。
Do you feel empowered to use your voice at Network Rail?
在我进来的团队中，我觉得很有动力。我周围的人非常愿意谈论在正常日中的问题和事情，人们可能会感到不舒服，所以我绝对觉得我可以在我想知道是否有一个想法，如果我觉得完全舒服。我知道这并不总是那种情况，特别是在你是一个黑人的房间里，一个女人。采取这一步是如此重要，因为这一步可以改变一切。他们可以听，我想，在你尝试之前不知道。
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