Other Women's Jobs - A Day In The Life & Career Of Linda Murphy

NAME:  Linda Murphy

AGE: 40         

INSTAGRAM HANDLE: @liyxlm1. Still clutching onto my university handle and I’ve not posted since 2018

JOB TITLE: Managing Director

MOVED TO THE UAE IN: 1996

The expat brat generation; Linda moved to Dubai before the Burj Al Arab was even a thing. The people and environment she was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by shaped a huge part of who she is today and the belief that anything is possible and there simply must be a way.

Linda studied Economics with ambitions to be an Investment Banker but she wanted to travel first. When she ran out of money, she took what was meant to be a short-term sales job to fund my next adventure. It anchored her back in Dubai and she never left. Linda spent eight years in publishing, before calling her then boyfriend who had just started Tactical with 1 employee, to see what he’d think if she joined him.

13 years, a marriage, 2 kids and 100 team members later, here she is. Linda is now the Managing Director of Tactical but she's done it all. She's been the Production Runner, Social Manager, Copywriter, Community Manager, Producer. You name it, Linda has probably done it - you don’t have a choice when you’re building a business from nothing.

Now Linda is fortunate enough to have a wonderful team and her focus is working closely with the Client Servicing team. She genuinely loves solving problems for her partners. The other side of her role is ensuring the business is running well on a day to day, and the right systems, people and culture are in place to scale without losing the essence of what Tactical was built on.

Today we discover a day in the life and career of Linda:

8AM:

Still in the car about to drop my second child at nursery, generally singing zoom-zoom-zoom we’re going to the moon

10AM:

Mornings are the best time for me to focus, it’s where I try to move the most critical items on my to-do list

12NOON:

In search of snacks, I’ll generally eat last night’s dinner at my desk

2PM:

Not ideal timing but with kids I struggle to train before work, so I slot in a quick hour here twice a week

4PM:

I keep my meetings for the afternoon, whether that’s internal or external so I don’t lose morning focus time

6PM:

I’m still in the office, wrapping up loose ends and trying to prep my priorities for the next day

8PM:

Putting my kids to bed. My favourite time of day, full of cuddles

10PM:

Ideally I’d be asleep but in Q4 you’ll find me on my sofa or outside making the most of the weather while catching up on work