在学校，有抱负的运动员奥利维亚·伍德沃德全身心投入到尽可能多的运动中。大学毕业后，她加入了一个更大的团队——铁路。
We chat to Olivia about her love of maths, making a change and the best advice she's ever received.
Watch Olivia in this video:
“我一直想成为最好的。”
“If you’re interested in something and you’re passionate about it, then you will go far with it.”
Watch Olivia and colleagues in our film for Black History Month 2020, Change the Game
你的工作是什么？
我是一名金融专业的毕业生，所以我（在2019年）加入了该计划，目前我在成本和产量团队。因此，我们保证并报告英国国营铁路公司交付的更新量，因此这涉及定期报告，向[铁路和公路办公室]报告，并对路线和地区交付不足的内容、原因和方式进行评论……我们试图向监管机构阐明这一点。亚搏彩票软件官网
Do you feel like you’re doing something important?
A hundred per cent. It’s what motivates me to come to work. If I feel I’m adding value to something and that my work is going forward and helping decisions higher up in the business, or lower in the business, it’s something that I know what I’m doing is helping something and it’s impactful.
铁路有什么让你吃惊的吗？
It’s so complex. I didn’t realise how big it was. When I was at university I would get the train from A to B and then coming into the railway, I now realise how many different parts go into getting the train from one station to the next. It was really interesting to see that and all the assets involved and all the people involved. It was just mind-blowing to start with.
Do you feel proud working on the railway?
百分之百。当人们谈论铁路时，不管是好是坏，我想，‘你知道吗？我也参与了这件事。“不管是小规模的，我都知道它的意义，我也知道人际网络在让人们找到工作、找到家庭方面有多么重要。
Is there always something new happening in your role?
The railway being so big, you can never know it all. There’s always something you can go and explore and learn a little bit more about.
It’s always changing, from day to day. Whether you work on the track, whether you work in the office, one change in the railways can shift your whole job role, from day to day. One day you can be looking at something, something happens, you need to get all this information for the chief executive … With this company especially, here you’re a graduate or an exec, there’s no barriers between. You can contact them, you can get in touch, you can help them and that’s really positive.
对你来说，从事一份能有所作为的工作重要吗？
我热衷于做出改变，无论是对一个人还是对我所提供的东西。对我来说很重要的一点是，我知道我确实影响了一些事情，并且在我所做的每一件事中，我都有所不同。我想这是激励我的动力，也是激励我每天更加努力工作的动力。
What did you want to be as a child?
[Like a lot of children], an athlete or a footballer and this was definitely the dream for a while. But I really loved maths at school so I thought ‘there’s potential of being an accounting or working in finance somewhere’. I didn’t know to begin with but I definitely knew a maths-y route was for me.
你小时候是什么样子的？
So when I was growing up, I was really sporty. I got involved in as many sports as possible but I was also really competitive in my studies. So I always wanted to be the best at everything, whether it was maths, English, whether I liked it or not. I always wanted to be the best and I always had to finish at the top of the class.
Did you have any role models growing up?
My role model will always be my brother. 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.
我有一个六年级的老师，他是我的经济学老师，他真的开创了一个完全不同的世界。他说，‘你知道吗？这会很困难，经济学学位，但如果你这样做……“他真的通过经济学说服了我。
It was something new to me but I knew I enjoyed it. Enjoyment is a big part of everything but he showed if you just stick to it and work hard at it, then you will be able to and I managed to come out with top grades and that was really changing for me at sixth form.
What do you wish you had known at school?
When I was at school, I wish someone had told me that it will work out in the end. You’ll figure out exactly what you need to do at the right time. You’ll get there, no matter what it is.
你收到的最好的建议是什么？
当我踢足球的时候，有人告诉我，“不要练到完美，要练到你不会弄错为止。”。如果你是可靠的，你是值得信赖的，你总是可以提供一个高水平的，这是非常重要的事情。
Why is it important to improve diversity on the railway?
这一行业通常被称为由白人男性主导。这并不一定有什么问题，但我们必须与时俱进，为了改变，我们需要更多的平等，从不同的角度，从不同的人。它可以改变铁路的运行方式…
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.
I also think it’s important because those people will be role models for kids and you need to drive it from schools and from universities that there are people who look like me who work in those industries so I can do that, too. It’s those kinds of things that need to become more common and by having more diverse communities, that’s definitely how we can do that.
What would you tell a young person?
Anything is possible, whether you think you might not fit in there, whether you don’t see anyone that looks like you that works there, there’s no reasons why you can’t break that mould. You can be that role model for people in the future … You can bring something completely new to that, which can change the game for that industry, whether it’s the railway or not. So you just have to take the opportunities … If you’re interested in something and you’re passionate about it, then you will go far with it.
What do you hope the railway will look like in terms of the makeup of its workers by the end of your career?
我希望我们不必进行令人不舒服的谈话，也不必统计铁路上有多少特定的种族或妇女。我希望不是这样。这可能是一个推动，可能是一个很长，很长的路要走，但…我们肯定可以朝着这一点迈出积极的一步，这是正常的…
Whether it becomes the norm that anyone who wants the opportunity can get it if they’re good enough and I think that’s what everyone should aim for. Hopefully the generations coming through can push away any kind of systemic barriers and anything like that, which stop people wanting to go into opportunities where they feel they might not fit in.
So I really hope that it’s the case – that everyone feels that they can go into anything they want to be in.
你觉得在英国国营铁路公司有权使用你的声音吗？亚搏彩票软件官网
In the team that I’m in, I feel very empowered. The people around me are very willing to talk about issues and things that in the normal day, people might feel uncomfortable about so I definitely feel like I can say whatever I want in terms of whether I have an idea, if I feel completely comfortable. I know that’s not always that case, especially in rooms where you’re the one Black person, the one woman. It’s so important to take that step because that step could change everything. They could listen and I think, you don’t know until you try.
Read more:
Olivia stars in Change the Game – a film for Black History Month
Change the Game – Q and A with graduate Adedayo Akeredolu