Placement Presentation

Today we each had a presentation slot of five minutes to discuss placements and what I want to do in the future.
In May I completed a two-week placement with Pacific Textured Jersey, a fabric company based in London, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong. The women I worked with showed me how they ran the company, communicating with the factories and clients, organising archives of fabrics, scouting future clients etc. The main company they work with is Marks and Spencer, so I found myself visiting the head office to meet with head buyers of the lingere and loungewear department. It was interesting to see how important people like that acted in a meeting, I found most people I met to be quite nice. I learnt a lot on my placement about how fabrics are put together, dyed and printed and how the company works and deals with clients. It was a really interesting experience, but I have decided for the future that I do not want to work solely with fabrics.
In the near future I have decided that I am going to continue on with the course and complete the 3rd year top-up. I will do a three month placement at the beginning of the year and go on to create another collection before completing the course to BA standard. I will then go on to find a job, preferably within design but I'm open to changing my mind at this present moment.

When I did the presentation I started with:
'Neither of my parents went to uni. Neither of them have done anything to be especially proud of and neither have fantastic jobs. Both of them put a lot of pressure on me and put me down whenever I do something wrong. It hurts sometimes, but at the end of the day I know that all they're trying to do is make sure I don't make the same mistake as they do.'
I have included this because my tutor made a comment after the session about how she thought that was an intersting way to start a presentation and she really liked it.