I wonder how many of us fall in to a career, and then make a real success at it before we realise that it’s not working for us. Of course, that creates a whole new problem. What are you going to do next? Well, that’s the story for my guest today. Dav Piper is now a gardener. But until recently her life was much like many people - the commute, the salary that’s hard to walk away from, a job that didn’t really work for her. She was successful by conventional standards but had fallen in to her career and slowly, like many of us, realised that she didn’t want to carry on. Of course, the next big problem was - what to do next?
I wonder how many of us fall in to a career, and then make a real success at it before we realise that it’s not working for us.
Of course, that creates a whole new problem. What are you going to do next?
Well, that’s the story for my guest today. Dav Piper is now a gardener. But until recently her life was much like many people - the commute, the salary that’s hard to walk away from, a job that didn’t really work for her. She was successful by conventional standards but had fallen in to her career and slowly, like many of us, realised that she didn’t want to carry on.
Of course, the next big problem was - what to do next?
Dav describes a very real dilemma. We don’t all know what we want to do with our lives! It’s all very well to say we want to get out of the corporate rat race and do something we love for a living... but what??
In this interview we talk about how she found out what she wanted to do, and the gentle steps she took to make it happen... steps that anyone could take to make that transition a little less risky.
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You can find out more about Dav on her website, her Facebook page and her blog.
Dav mentioned Fiverr as a place to buy services like logos and websites. Check it out at https://www.fiverr.com/
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