From Travel Agent to English Teacher in Japan “I had this building feeling that I was wasting my life just making ends meet and living for the weekend.”
From PR to Coach and Business Communication Skills Trainer “I remember feeling like I was the only 'loser' who couldn't settle into a career.”
From Recruitment to Inspiring Networking Events “The usual frustrations of working for somebody else who was purely focused on the bottom line were starting to kick in.”
From Regenerating Towns to Celebrating Lives “I knew at that moment, when someone else was reading my words, that it should have been me delivering the service.”
From Astrophysics to Visual Arts “I ended up in a field that was fascinating, but not exactly what I wanted to do in my life.”
From the BBC to the Birthing Suite “I loved working for the BBC, but I still wasn’t as fulfilled as I wanted to be.”
From Prison Psychologist to Interior Designer “I had got to the point where I was dreading going into work, I was stressed out, and teetering dangerously close to burnout.”
From Politics and Policy to Coaching and Consulting “People kept telling me that I had good empathy and intuition, and I thought I could do more with those qualities.”
From Management Consultants to Online Entrepreneurs “We both wanted to do something a bit different, something that we genuinely cared about.”
From Commercial Manager to Massage Therapist “I’d felt like a square peg in a round hole for a long time.”
From Pig Breeder to Charity CEO “I had no real interest in working for a large multinational, whose bottom line was making a profit for shareholders.”
Research Analyst to Social Entrepreneur “My role was to sit with another 1,000 people and stare into a computer screen all day making money out of money for rich people.”
Business Consultant to Polar Expedition Leader “I wanted to get out of bed on a Monday morning and really want to get stuck into the day.”
