Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > A fresh start?

[Mr_S]

I made a lot of changes in '98

That year I

Quit drinking
Left the Navy (resigned after 10 years, easy job as a CPO, reasonable money, but I was BORED!!!)
Ditched the first wife
Started out in IT - Citrix engineer for Ferrari sponsoring telco

6 months later sold the house I had and bought one out of town for a while.

For me, best decisions of my life, I'm now in control of my time, in a job I love, re-married with an 8 month old son ( Ruben ). Big house (garage is bigger than parents ground floor ), new cars every 2 years, can afford to run a Ducati. 2 foreign holidays a year plus other travel. I got lucky, or I'm damned good at what I do depending on who you talk to :P

I've worked overseas a lot, Hong Kong, Florida, Washington DC, Southern France but always enjoy coming home.

It doesn't work out for some people though. 3 friends of mine left the Services at the same time I did, 2 went back in during the Gulf war as they couldn't find decent work outside (not used to working for a living either). The other guy has only just started to make headway ina new career, and although lives in Cheshire (nr Warrington) can't maintain the lifestyle he had 7 years ago.

If your thinking of doing it, try to negotiate a Sabbatical, so that if you aren't happy you can return. Rent out property instead of selling up and arrange work before you go.

One final thing you could ask yourself....

If NZ, Oz, SA etc are such great places to live, why are they all over here???