Money Lo gave up the glamour of TV to start a new career and she is enjoying every minute of it
Money Lo Mun-yi was bewildered the first time she worked in a corporate office. Having had television studios and film locations as her place of work for over a decade, the TV presenter-turned-lawyer nervously navigated the cubicle trenches most of us take for granted every day.
'I was stumped the first time I worked in a lawyer's office for the summer. I had never had corporate experience before. I didn't know how to type a fax, had never used an automatic pencil sharpener and wasn't even too sure what A4 paper looked like,' she recalled.
For the television presenter, becoming a lawyer would have been like winning the lottery 10 years ago, but after calling her career quits so she could prepare for her wedding, she soon realised that becoming a full-time housewife wasn't so appealing. So she decided to put her energies into a subject that interested her.
Studying law was not a difficult choice. Her work in media and entertainment had increased her interest in intellectual property sometime ago and she was eager to learn more about law in all its dimensions. She signed up for a part-time law degree run by University of Hong Kong's School of Professional and Continuing Education in conjunction with the University of London.
'I thought, if I am going to study for fun I may as well do something I am genuinely interested in. There wasn't any particular logic to the decision. I just felt I had an affinity for law,' she said.
