When Susan Wood left television in 2006 she was not in a good place. She had just hada large part of her thyroid removed, she’d had a very public, bitter dispute with Television New Zealand executives about her salary as host of Close Up, and she wasn’t sure she could handle the chaotic life of a newsroom much longer.
“It was really, really good I left. I was exhausted and I was sick and I had been there 21 years.” She dipped her toes in the sometimes-murky world of PR – and found they were bitten off pretty quickly (one job lasted just one week).
“You actually have to hustle for a dollar. I mean,I’ve done some things I really did not want to do, butI still had a mortgage and kids to help. You don’t have the option of staying in bed unless you’ve won Lotto.
