Local hotel management student serves food in the US
At only 21, former St Dominics student and Sunward Park resident, Corey-Lee Killian has just returned from the US on a working programme.
Killian is studying Hotel Management, a career she chose when she was 16 and in Grade 10.
“I was a drum majorette and we were always travelling to hotels across the country, I loved the idea of it. I then enrolled at the Swiss Hotel School in 2012, and loved it even more,” she says.
Killian then heard about a programme that places South Africans in five-star country clubs in the US to gain work experience and she applied.
In 2013 she started as a server at Boca West Country Club in the US and was away from home for six months.
She describes the experience as being out of this world.
“I enjoyed every single moment and loved every day.
“My job included taking food and drink orders from the members of the country club, these people weren’t the easiest to please, so the slightest mistake was the biggest deal.
“But even if the hours were long and the people were sticky, I would never ever change it for anything,” she explains.
She says her experience taught her so much, and the idea of travelling and experiencing diverse countries around the world through work really excites her.
Killian’s future plans include travelling and working in Dubai and the UK but she says they are still very broad at this stage.
“There is so much to do, and so many branches to leap onto to. I’m outgoing and work well with people and love meeting them.
“I, think it might take me a while to actually settle in this career choice, but I’m excited for what it has in store.”
She hopes to eventually open a guest house in South Africa.
“How can you go wrong, everyone needs a home and everyone needs food?”- @TumeloBoksburg
