Linking skills and interests to map your path to a new career
As I have written before, my career change was as much about changing my lifestyle and the way I worked as it was about the need to change my job…
Category: A Day in the Life
Getting into the Christmas Spirit
I’m sure the fact that Christmas is so close is starting to fill some people with dread but I am excited, even though I can feel myself being sucked into…
7 things I have learned from my career change so far
It’s just over five months since I had my last day in the office in Hanoi. In some ways it feels a million years ago, but in reality, it has…
8 weeks until Christmas – buying for kids
Only 8 weeks until Christmas and it’s almost November, which makes me feel like planning can really begin in earnest. All my favourite magazines are arriving with great suggestions of…
9 weeks until Christmas!
I’ve been a little quiet on the blog this week. I had my final exam for this Trimester which I think it went quite well so I’m looking forward to…
Christmas Countdown – 10 weeks to go
It’s 10 weeks to Christmas today! Now I know that statement will probably strike fear into the hearts of many dreading the onslaught on Christmas shopping crowds, bad carols and…
Being thankful for the opportunity to make a change
Today has been a day that has really reinforced for me how lucky I am to have had the opportunity to have made a change – both to my career…
Finding my running groove again
Yesterday I ran in my first big fun run in Australia. The annual City to Bay sees about 35,000 people run from Adelaide to Glenelg. There are options to run…
Savouring the time to cook
My plan to reserve Tuesdays as “test kitchen Tuesdays” to try new recipes came unstuck pretty quickly, but mainly because I have been cooking a lot of different things. That’s not…
Career change without a plan
As I wrote in my first post, this blog was partly to tell the story of leaving a 15-year career as a public servant for something new. But unlike many…