It’s a wonder that I haven’t yet fallen off the edge of the planet. I appear to be one of those people who have no inner compass. Getting lost is something that happens so frequently that it now no longer surprises me, in fact when I don’t get lost, Im surprised. So how did I end up on the other side of the planet living the best life? Maybe Im not lost, maybe part of my crazy method of finding my way has helped me to be exactly where Im supposed to be.
So let’s chat about pathways, there is a certain expectation that “society” (whoever the heck they are) expect humans to fulfil. We are meant to go to primary school to learn the basics, learn how to behave, learn about what “learning is”. Then we hit High School, and we are supposed to step up, be more responsible, look after ourselves more, choose our pathway and take a part-time job and earn money whilst getting good grades. Then off we go to Uni, so we move out of home, maintain a job that can sustain us and the studies, get good grades and then start trudging your way up the ladder of success… Im exhausted just reading this…
I did well until I seem to have lost my way on the University path and veered off to find the travelling pathway. I never looked back.
My younger self used to covet the idea of the University degree, I held it in high esteem. Without this “ticket”, this string in my bow I feel like I have been winging it. I kind of have. However, without this “ticket” I have still managed to navigate my own version of success even if it was stumbled upon and by no means planned.
After a 20 odd year career in some form of marketing, 14 of which running my own marketing consultancy I look at education with nostalgic eyes but not with regret. See I wouldn’t have managed to plant my feet in Australia if I hadn’t gone travelling, I wouldn’t have my family or any of the fabulous experiences I have had if I had stayed in the UK, yet at this point in my career I want to step up a level and the only way to get there is through education. So I’m hitting the books, but instead of doing just one course, in true Angie fashion – I am doing a few different courses.
For a long while now I have felt that I have more to give, more to share and a bigger impact to make. See I know exactly where I should be, exactly the game I should be playing but that “ticket” holds me back, so as this world collapses into an economic pool of mush I am using it as a catapult to carve myself a place on the level I want to be at.
Over the next few months, I will embark upon 2 professional courses (AICD and Certified Chair Courses) that should lead me into exciting and challenging board positions and the other is solely a personal passion. I am (in my downtime) undertaking a Diploma of Sustainable Living with The University of Tasmania. I cannot wait to open the modules for this and soak up the information. See I found a passion in my garden during the time that the world decided that marketing was a dirty word.
It’s not like me to just stop, so I threw myself into something new and hey look, Im not lost, I think I’ve found myself again. Who needs a map.
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