A LIFE in the week - Andrea Purcell

Job Title: IT Project Manager

What do you like most about
your job?
I love the fact that I get to go into lots of different areas of ESB to work on projects. This gives me
the opportunity to learn how the various business units operate, as well as meeting people with very
different roles to my own.

If you weren’t in your current job
what would you be doing?
Planning a wedding, there is just so much involved! Mind you if I had started before now it might not seem like there was so much to do in just three months.

Personal ambition?
To visit Graceland.

If you had a choice of another
career what would it be?
I would love to be an interior designer. I enjoy designing and redecorating rooms and houses,
especially when it’s with someone else’s budget.

What person has influenced you
most?
I wouldn’t say there is one person. Different people influence you in different ways at different stages in life.

What upsets you most?
Everyone is always so busy these days. You don’t get to spend as much time with family and friends as you’d like.

What is your favourite journey
and why?
The commute home to Athy every evening – even if it does mean using Irish Rail. It’s just great to get away from the city and back to the country.

How do you chill out?
We recently got a Nintendo WII in our house, so I
am trying to improve my bowling and tennis skills.

Which four people, past or
present, would you invite to
dinner?
Elvis Presley –I am dragging my husband-to-be to Graceland on our honeymoon. I’d love the
opportunity to ask Bono why he seems more concerned with fixing the poverty problems outside Ireland rather than here at home. It would be great to hear Michael O’Leary’s business plan for Irish Rail. And I’d love to just talk to Tamara Mellon
about shoes.