“Derby wasn’t the nicest place to bring up children, and we were renting. It was the housing offered that made the biggest difference. “I was helping with the labour-intensive parts of the job and learning what I could.”Īfter that initial period, Sean was offered a position as an assistant manager. That success coincided with his honeymoon plans, and Sean’s eagerness to make a positive impression meant he postponed the trip in order to get started, in the beginning working as a relief assistant manager. “It was a massive move for the family – we left everything behind to move for this career.” The first step to a career in poultryĪfter a few applications and subsequent interviews, success came in a job offer with Faccenda, which meant moving from Derby to Northamptonshire. Far from a negative first impression, the experience gave Sean the impetus to begin applying for jobs in the poultry sector. It was exciting, says Sean, explaining that not everyone gets the chance to see how chicken is grown. “I spent a couple of evenings on his farm – completely different to my everyday experience.” “He opened my eyes to a different sort of career,” says Sean.
The café in which he worked was part of a high-end health club and one customer just happened to own a poultry farm. At the time, he lived with his partner and young family in, as he describes it, a ‘sketchy’ urban part of Derby. Sean Harrison is the opposite he spent the first decade of his working life in hospitality before a customer in the café he served at gave his first insight into the poultry industry. The most successful may make a fortune in the city and buy a hobby farm in the home counties, while sons and daughters may flirt with other work but eventually ‘come back’, filled with ideas for diversifying their parents’ holding. For all the stress, uncertainty and commitment that comes with farming, relatively few cut their links entirely with agriculture, regardless of what career they choose.
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