A fresh start?
 

Has anyone ever done this or thought about it seriously?

To what extreme did you or would you do it?

Sell everything, new career, new home....new country even??

Is it about being a failure and giving up or being brave to do this sort of thing?

As in quit your job, go for a holiday and move to another country you mean?

No..... but I'm thinking about it now, as you've said it!!!! :lol:

Well, considering a purchase of a house in Italy, learning the lingo....

You don't count Tony, you're on probation from Her Maj's Prison Aussie.

Lol! Lily either appears to be the master of subtle persuasion or she's been dropping some seriously big hints lately!

Seriously though, yes I've thought about it often and have to admit that maybe later on it's something that we, as a family, may well do. It's only the family ties that keep us where we are at the moment, and I'd have no problem in moving somewhere (anywhere) I didn't know as I've done it plenty of times before, but only in this country.

Was within a phone call of doing that 2 years back. Meaning: all possessions in storage, pack a suitcase and move to the u.s.

Don't really know what stopped me. Actually I do, but that's a different story!

Lily, you've been getting awfully philosophical lately.

Anything up ?

antonye... i don't think he would be taking me with him.... :):P

I gave up on hints with Fred a long time ago :lol:

Philosophical.... :lol:

hmmm, well Fred always says i 'think too much' so maybe :)

Just wondering about people's experiences really.

So... would you consider a career change or just a job change?

Would you tell people what you were doing ot where you were going or just surprise them?

Well, here's what I did:

Ange and I hadn't been outside Aus before (unless you count Tasmania?) but decided to move to London. So I quite my job, Ange's parents came to look after the kids and Ange and I went on a holiday. Thailand, Italy, France and then to London.

I got myself some cheap accomodation and started job hunting. Ange went back to sort out the rest of the house stuff, sell the car etc. Got my first contract within 3 weeks so 2.5 mths later Ange and the kids came over and we settled in London. Been here since April 2002.

Now I want a career change and have started looking into equities markets, specifically technical analysis of markets at the moment. Ordered some more books on techniques etc .... would love to work from home and trade for myself for a while.

I would love to do something outside though, SCUBA instructor, offshore fishing charter etc ...

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It'd be fun to just go, then send all yourfamily and friends a change of address card... spehly if it's another country!

So lily, you're not considering leaving us are you?

kind of did a couple of years ago...left a 30k plus retail managers job for a 18k sales rep, took me a couple of years to get the ££ back but I now have weekends, bank holidays and flexible time!! Well worth it.

Also, been trying to persuade my better half that we should move to NZ (so tempted just to apply and see what happens). Doing a degree course at the mo so, when I qualify, I can make a final decision to up and go or stay and change career completely - next 3 or 4 yrs should be fun!

wow, thats pretty off the cuff i guess.

I contemplate the career change, but not certain if any of the things i fancy would pay me enough money...

I came pretty close to moving to Aus a few years back, but some of the teechnicalities of the contract put me off. Glad i didn't go now, but still wonder where it wouldn have taken me if i had.

Probably to Australia :D

We'll go back there one day ... when that is I don't know.

Tony, you oughta come down sarf and do some scuba instructing - plenty of good diving areas around here. Or buy a Sunseeker and charter it out?

JUST DO IT!!!!! you know you Wanna""mav

Well, I've got some courses and a lot more dives to log if I was to become a DiveMaster.

But it's not practical. It's not going to pay me what I get now, it would be time consuming doing whilst still contracting. And it's cold :D

I nearly went in on a yacht in the Whitsunday's, 60 footer that was kitted out with a bunch of rods, a dive compressor etc ... but we came over here.

doesnt always work out tho - member of my family wanted his own business for 30 years, finally did it 2 years ago with another guy, went well until 6m ago, now on verge of losing both their fully paid for homes:( and this is a industry he has been in all his working life!

Yeah money is always a factor. I could head south, stay in the same career and get paid more, but i doubt it would make me happy.

Or I could move to California and do something totally different.... :eureka:

possibly...not anything like always the case. And the cost of housing, living etc is far higher than (most) places in the north. I know of many who work for my company who located north and cannot afford to come south again - and if they have the same role as me they get paid the same wherever they live/work!

I'm on my 3rd re-incarnation.
Depends upon the person, how "flexible" you and what your skills are.
Go now and enjoy, as long as you're young free and single get on with it.
Some trades are in demand, others less so.
I'm 40 and finding everso less likely that it'll happen again in the same way.
If you're hankering after a change you owe it to yourself to go-do. Else you'll for ever wonder what your lot would really have been like.

Tim

I agree - I was an electronics technician in the Oz Army. Then I was in IT in the Oz Army. Then I was in IT in the public sector in Oz, then I moved over her to do it ...

A few changes there ... and I'm 29.

its not reality for me, just came up in conversation in work after having a moan about the job etc and what else we would do.

People always come out with bold sayings about their great plans, but very few people actually follow them through.

I moved to a new area, changed jobs and bought a bike and that was scary enough for me for now!

29?

PMSL :lol:

Honest, I am! I've been 29 for 6 weeks or so now!

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Exactly!;)

:lol:

You're just jealous!

....Yeah one day when I am old I hope I age as well as you ;)

:puzzled::puzzled::puzzled:

suggesting you are not now then???

How old is he Lily?

Cards on the table, how old are both of you?

22 obviously!

The pair of us!

Freak ! the saying goes (i can feel it in my Water)

in your case it's in ya THUMB:sing::sing::sing::sing:

Uh huh!!

Ho Ho......

wait til your thumb hurts like mine :D

take a guess....

Lily - You wouldn't be a day over 25.

Freak - 32

both 11:puzzled:

:lol::lol::lol:

very good....

having said that you have only seen me once with leathers and pigtails.... this is the real me... try again!

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Flattery won't get you anywhere.... well not with me :D