Time out….

As I sit here in Hobart airport, watching people lining up at the one coffee shop that is currently open, I think to myself where the last 7 years have gone. Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining, I just can’t believe how fast the time has gone since I left uni and entered the workforce as a geophysicist.

What prompts these thoughts is turning 30. The good thing about it is that it is just a number. Don’t worry, I am still as cheeky as ever. One thing it does highlight is “what am I going to do when I grow up?”.

Anyone that knows me will know that I travel a lot for work. It isn’t the glamorous sort either where I am jetsetting between 5 star hotels and drinking cocktails by the pool. The part of the travel that makes it difficult is the unpredictability and the effect that has on planning things outside work. I have noticed that as I get older, I don’t tolerate this as well.

The hard thing is that as a whole I enjoy my job. I like the aspect that I am in different places so the job is never the same. I don’t get up at the same time every day, drive the same road, to go the same office.

The question is balance. How do you achieve it? New job? New career?