I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.
I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do.
After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
I found most of my learning has taken place after culinary college, when I travelled and met chefs and non-chefs.
My friends went on gap years and I just stayed in London.
I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.
By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'
I never really got into marketing. I went to school for it, but never pursued it once I got out. Instead, I went to Europe for about two months, just traveling around in youth hostels and Eurail trains with my friends.
