
Left a 16-year teaching career at 38 to build a life around interior design and writing. Honest posts on creative career change, self-employment and figuring it out as you go.
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For a while I’d been thinking that I would go away by myself for a couple of days, but for some reason it took a long time to build up the courage to actually do it. I’m not sure why, as I’m quite happy to do things by myself...
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Just over three years ago I quit.
I was 38, and I’d been a secondary school teacher for 16 years. I was very good at it - by age 29 I was at the helm of a 20-person music department in a la...
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and on not getting that ‘August feeling’ anymore
Foolishly, I thought that by the end of August I would know definitively whether I was moving house or not, but it seems the universe has other plans and limbo is here for a while longer. Mo...
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Jennie and I first met back in 2023 at a creativity retreat with and . Jennie’s debut novel ‘The List of Suspicious Things’ was not yet out in the world and I had just left my 16 year teaching career behind. Change was afoot...
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I left teaching at 38 to design a new life for myself, retraining as an interior designer and discovering a love of writing. Sharing thoughts on self-employment, creativity and community from a childfree, London dwelling Francophile.
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