Mindset
I knew, when embarking on this career change, that I would have a hurdle to get over in terms of mindset. When I worked as an Office Manager previously it was always with the goal of starting my own creative business as a gleaming beacon ahead in the future. I really loved my office job. I had wonderful colleagues, a great boss and the work was varied and interesting. I was also good at it and consistently went home with the contentment of a job well done. But ultimately it wasn't what I had ever seen myself doing. It didn't fit in with my sense of myself as a creative. I stayed in the role for seven years and may have stayed longer had I not had children but I could always tell myself it was temporary. I have changed career before now. I spent all my early years and 6 years of further education working towards a professional acting career. In the end it only took me 5 years of working in theatre to realise that it wasn't for me. That I needed more structure and stability ...