This is Me

“Whatever you do, you’ll always be planning the next thing”

My friends, family and colleagues all agreed this vocational assessment statement was accurate. At the time, I was a very single computer programmer, and didn’t want to be doing that for the rest of my life. Now I’m a business analyst, a partner and mum, a psychologist, and working hard on becoming a private investigator. A while ago, I took a break from my main gig of being a business analyst, planning to alternate 6-month contracts with 3 months personal projects. I’m about 20 months into my first 3-month hiatus, and those projects won’t stop coming. These projects have included:

• Psychology work
• Business consulting for a small enterprise
• I wrote a book! It’s called “Themed parties from 3 to 13, even if (especially if) the thought terrifies you”. Then I didn’t know what to do with it. For that and other reasons, I’ve started a Masters in writing.
• Online content creation: travel slideshows, instructive videos in business analysis, meditations, how-to-see-Victoria-by-public-transport-because-it’s-so-cheap
• Some software projects (going back to my roots)
• The aforementioned private investigation course. While I’m not sure it’s in line with my career goals, my dad pointed out it will help me write detective fiction
• I’ve also recently started exploring musical theatre

That vocational assessment in my late twenties seems pretty accurate. My future career goal is fairly simple. My partner and I both want to restructure our careers so we can become digital nomads, travelling the world but still working (entirely online/remote). As we have a kid to get to adult independence first, we’ve got some time for this transition.