Entrepreneur Stuart Baggs has plenty of regrets, but none from his time on The Apprentice
One of my biggest career-related regrets so far involves not getting my university degree finished because I took a year out before going on The Apprentice.
I find doing a degree part time makes it amazingly difficult to achieve anything. I started out doing a degree in cyber crime and computer security at the University of Leeds but, because I'd taken so long, they transferred me on to a different course, BSc in computing, which is pretty boring. I've now been at university for about five or six years, on and off.
I have plenty of regrets in life probably, but The Apprentice is not one of them. It showed me just as I am, it wasn't edited badly. I tried my absolute hardest and if you've done that and failed, there's nothing to regret.
The thing was, I was such a big character on the show that it was always going to end in one of two ways; either I was going to get the job, or else get fired in the most spectacular fashion. Looking back, I was clearly not going to get the job, although I did feel a bit hard done by by how it ended. Even if I had lied on my CV about my company, Bluewave Communications, not having obtained a licence ? which I absolutely maintain that I didn't ? it wouldn't have been a problem. Look at the guy who won a few years ago who actually lied about going to university.
It was such a minor detail. They were just smacking a ton of bricks on a pinhead to try and split me apart and they got frustrated when I didn't crack.
I've made a lot of mistakes once, but I try not to make them again ? there's no excuse the second time around.
Stuart Baggs will be a columnist for The Apprentice website from May.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/apr/09/stuart-baggs-my-greatest-mistake
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