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# Just a 16 year old kid
- URL: https://blah.untangleyourbrand.com/just-a-16-year-old-kid/
- Published: 2020-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-20T12:19:53.000Z
- Description: The things you loved at sixteen often shape the work you do now.
- Author: Nigel Davies
- Tags: Etc Etc, business, Work, #lightbox, purpose

When I was 16, I could draw a bit. I liked maths. I hated physics. I played the guitar badly. And I spent most of my time making posters for gigs and school plays without realising I was doing early marketing.

Adults kept telling me it wouldn’t lead to a “proper job”.

Looking back, the clues were already there. The things you do because you can’t help yourself often become the foundations of the work you end up loving.

What did you have to overcome as a teenager to get to where you are now?

The picture is of me aged about 16 with my O Level art exhibition, looking grumpy having recently discovered The Smiths.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/16/bf162d1e-32af-40f7-8eb5-21591f3ec1f2/content/images/2025/11/O_LEVEL_EXTENDED.jpg)