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Juggling a week of work and study
Penny O'Nions, principal of Buckinghamshire-based The Onion Group, spends her week rushing between work and and studying for law school at the weekend. As well as the usual mix of meetings she also manages to find time to speak to a provider about new products, although she holds out little hope they may deliver something she actually needs
The afternoon is filled with provider X coming to chat through its ideas for a new product. I like these occasions, as the companies ask me what I think the market needs. The people get very excited and animated, explaining that my idea is exactly what they had already been planning to do, then appear again 12 months later with something totally different and wonder why I do not like it. The evening consists of another medical meeting, a bath and two hours of study with lights out at 2 am
Friday
The morning is spent with the research and analysis team before lunch and heading off to the BBC to record a piece for News 24. Then I pop into chambers to discuss a new IHT enquiry before heading off home and then to dance class. This brings about more people thinking advice is free after 8 pm – it was bad enough when it was just medical and financial but now it is law too, deep joy. Then it is home, bath and study. Lights out at 3 am in preparation for law school on Saturday and time at the weekend to catch up on valuations, private medical insurance reports and professional magazines.
