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Jun 27, 20176 min read

Career 13: Tour Guide

On my trip through Venezuela, I had the chance to see if my dream of being paid to travel was as good as it sounds. I led the tour group...

Jun 3, 20174 min read

8 Reasons Why You Should Go Overlanding

Huddled around a fire in a yurt next to a nomadic tribe on the Kyrgyz steppe at 3,500m above sea level, I know I would never been able to...

Jun 2, 20173 min read

Career 12: Forest School Teacher

Back in January I was contacted by Becky Le Bas, a Forest School teacher at Beechwood Park School, Hertfordshire. I had seen the...

Apr 20, 20173 min read

Career 11: International Security

It takes a special kind of person to voluntarily spend a week in the rainy woods of England. Fortunately, that’s exactly the sort of...

Apr 11, 20174 min read

Career 10: Movie Extra

There aren’t many of us that don't secretly wonder what it might be like to be on the silver screen. Perhaps as the leading lady or the...

Apr 10, 20174 min read

Career 9: Crisis Management

When the first thing someone asks you on starting a new job is ‘we want to know what you think’, it’s a pretty good indication of the...

Mar 15, 20173 min read

Career 8: Charity

A4ID is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals, following on from the Millennium Development Goals Last week I was with the...

Feb 27, 20174 min read

Career 7: Journalism Take 2 - Reporter

I have been back at The Telegraph, following my stint with the Investigations team. This time I was working as a news reporter, spending...

Feb 11, 20172 min read

Career 6: Investigative Journalist

Starting a new job on the day of an all-out tube strike across central London is not the most auspicious of beginnings. I was joining the...

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...