Careers 4/4

Jan 31, 20175 min read

Career 5: Farming

‘If you like farming in January, you are meant to be a farmer.’ This was the advice I was given way back in September when arranging to...

Dec 8, 20164 min read

Career 4: Property

Not an awful balcony view London Lofts is tucked away in a gated mews just off Angel’s Upper Street. I spent two weeks with the start-up,...

Oct 29, 20164 min read

Career 3: Travel Editing/Publishing

Underlining the Pros and Cons Deep down I was hoping that working for a travel guidebook company was the one. The elusive career I had...

Oct 7, 20164 min read

Career 2: Photography

The smell of pine trees was the first thing I noticed about Ibiza, after I had gotten rid of the significantly less well-scented Lads On...

Sep 23, 20164 min read

Digging Deeper: Are Archaeologists Legitimate Treasure Hunters?

It rains a lot in the Carpathian Mountains. You can see the storm clouds roll over the top of the hills, threatening any fair-weather...

Sep 15, 20164 min read

A farmer's life for me?

Debbie Kingsley sounds like a woman you wouldn’t want to mess with. She is an art consultant, a trainer, freelance writer, blogger,...

Sep 2, 20165 min read

Career 1: Archaeology

The Dig Where better to launch 25before25 than in somewhere like Transylvania, Romania. I turned up sleepy-eyed at Cluj-Napoca airport,...

Aug 25, 20163 min read

More Methodical (Career) Matchmaking

Who wouldn’t want a dream job? However, when choosing the careers for 25before25, I realised that the project could not just be about...

Aug 13, 20163 min read

Resignation and Explanation

I am about to quit my civil service ‘job for life’ for the uncertainty of unemployment and the even greater uncertainty of having...