The FM questions David Burford CEO of Beck Family Estates.
What was your first job?How much was your first pay cheque, and how did you spend it?What is the one thing you wish somebody had told you when you were starting out?If you could fix only one thing in SA, what would it be?
Unemployment — giving unemployed South Africans the chance to earn a wage and improve their lives and the lives of their loved ones.I like to take things apart and see how they work. If something electrical breaks in our home, I enjoy taking it apart to see if I can fix it.Selling my UK property. I rented it out for three years and had enough of being a landlord. Of course, the price of property in the area went through the roof months after I sold.Investment in my kids and my own education.
Was there ever a point at which you wanted to trade it all in for a different career? And, if so, what would that career be? I think we all have those moments when we think what could have been. When I was a very young man, I had a close friend who was Mauritian and we often spoke about starting a water sports business, supplying hotels and so on. There are times when I wonder where that road may have led if we had followed it through.Tackle unemployment; create space for SMEs to thrive and succeed in generating employment and revenue.
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