Raquel Graham rings from the taxi taking her to the airport. She can’t make our appointment tomorrow because her boss wants her to be in Los Angeles instead. When you’re a personal assistant to a pop star, you’re expected to jet around the world at the drop of a hat. Raquel loves her job and gets on well with her boss. There’s just one minor problem – she can’t stand flying. ‘On a nine-hour trip to California I usually take sleeping tablets to help calm me down,’ she admits. Her worst experience was being on Concorde. ‘It seemed so shut in with those tiny windows.’ Offices in Manchester and London occupy her when she comes down to earth. There’s some mundane paperwork to get through – organising the diary, sitting in on meetings with solicitors and accountants, sorting out itineraries, and making yet more travel arrangements. She didn’t apply for the job. A chance meeting with the manager of a pop group led to the offer of work behind the scenes and she took a secretarial certificate in evening classes at the same time. Five years later she was in the right place at the right time when her boss needed a PA. 

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