As told to BC Pires

My name is Subash Mootoor and I help people when they lose their credit cards in a foreign country.

I’m from Tunapuna, born and bred. Just south of the Main Road. Maybe five minutes’ drive from the market. You could walk from where I live to the market. But you wouldn’t.

I also spent about three years of my life in Canada, as a child.

I come from a really big extended family. My parents have nine siblings. On each side. Dozens of cousins is right.

My own direct family is small, though. One sibling, my brother Rudra, currently in the US. Most of my parents Krish and Vashti’s siblings have one or two kids themselves.

I’m currently single, unmarried and don’t think I want children.

Not because I think the world is in a bad way. I just don’t think I’m cut out for it.

I much rather have a dog.

I went to El Dorado Hindu Primary and Hillview College, my first choice from Common Entrance, not SEA.

I started a first degree I didn’t like and then I started to work a summer job at the bank. Work paid me and the degree did not. So work got the better of it.

My summer job was my first – and only – job. I’ve had different roles, different bosses, but always in the same company.

I don’t regret not finishing my first degree. I have just got my MBA from Bedfordshire University!

When I realised covid was going to last a while – and I was getting fed-up binge-watching TV – the idea of going back to education came up. I could go straight to a one-year MBA because of my managerial experience.

Covid took all the things I liked – going out to dinner and for drinks; going to the beach and gym; travelling – away from me immediately.

Covid changed how I worked too. Our big team in one central location in Chaguanas split up and I took a team with me to St Augustine. Just to keep people apart, in case someone became infected.

Since then we have kind of re-emerged, but I spend most days working from home.

I was raised in Hinduism and remain a believer.

I (reconcile) my belief in a loving god with the suffering I witness in the world through karma. God didn’t create this. We did.

I guess I’d have to go along with BC Pires saying I give God a free pass, but understanding my religion, I look at the bigger picture.

I’ve travelled to 16 countries and to every continent but Australia. I

love that my organisation insists you must take your vacation every year – and I love that the reason is (to ensure) mental health.

I’ve capitalised on that. By breaking up my 21 business days annual holiday, coupled with the huge amount of public holidays we have, it’s very easy to travel far.

I do all my bookings myself through Expedia and I’ve figured out which airports are cheaper, how to use air miles and things.

I loved Thailand, Italy, Spain, the UK, I