She thinks professionals in particular want to hire focused people who are perfectly qualified for a particular job. ''There's this problem with people being open to all sorts of things, interested in the general.'' ''There's this desire to want to pack me up and put me in a nice little box and say, 'That's where Jane Caro is,''' she says of an Australian attitude to wanting to know what people do. But that occupation sits uncomfortably in modern Australia. She is forthright but her positions usually come delivered with a twinkle in her eye, demonstrating how she has turned the stuff of general conversation into a life as a professional generalist. She can talk, and then some, making a reporter's questions largely redundant as a lunch interview gives way to a lively canter through the fields of class, education, rebelliousness, the good side of advertising, its sexism, education again, Labor Party spin and why you should not say mean things about people on Twitter, especially after a glass of wine. At school she was told to try harder and talk less and, 40 years on, it's clear the second half of that advice had precisely no effect. Caro is full of words and opinions but manages not to be full of herself, unlike the reputation of many in her original industry.
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