I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.
Kate ThorntonThere are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.
Kate ThorntonAt 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid ยฃ8 an hour.
Kate ThorntonI never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.
Kate ThorntonWe all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.
Kate Thornton