An Experimental GAP year

A little bit of chaos, madness and Wonderland in finding purpose and changing careers.

“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don’t much care where.
The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.
Alice: …So long as I get somewhere.
The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you’re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Exactly one year ago I took a leap — left everything behind, moved Down Under, had a fresh start to reinvent myself and my career.

What started with an idea of a GAP year — often associated with travelling and taking a break — became an upskilling experiment.

I’m one of those people that want to grasp a little bit of everything, I wanted to get out and understand what my options were, not knowing exactly where this would take me, aware that I would get uncomfortably out of my comfort zone. It was a year of trials and errors, of gaining a varied skill set, changing my perspective on career paths.

Little did I know that Sydney was a city of opportunities where I could experience that, I have never lived in a place with so many day jobs and short term contracts as there is in this city, and trust me I’ve been…