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#11 - Interview with a Project Manager (Business management and entrepreneurship) - Bjorn Train

January 20, 2020 • JP Pienaar/Bjorn Train • Episode 11

“If I could do the year of Business management and entrepreneurship at UCT again I would, it was a great course.”

Bjorn Train joins us on the podcast for a look at what a day in the life of a Project Manager is like. During his 3rd year of BCom Chartered Accounting he decided to change over to Honours in Business management and entrepreneurship at UCT. Bjorn has been working as a Manager at the Clay Café in Hout Bay and will move into a project manager role as they look to expand into the rest of South Africa. He also considered honours in finance, a bachelor in emergency medicine at UWC and FAPM (financial analysis and portfolio management). Bjorn’s other interests include emergency medicine and he has completed an ambulance assistant course, first aid courses, a stop the bleed course (treating life threatening injuries). Bjorn has been a volunteer wildland fire fighter for 3 years. He is currently looking into becoming a local reservist with the SAPS or a volunteer auxiliary law enforcement officer. Bjorn enrolled at Abbots College after matric taking maths, economics and business studies in order to improve his aggregate in order to gain entrance to UCT. We take a look at what happened.