It is possible to escape the rat race. I trained as an architect and spent my waking hours glued to the computer screen, while my husband, Dan, was a manager in an outdoor centre and was spending more and more of his days doing paperwork rather than the outdoor activities that got him hooked in the first place. After we had our first daughter, Molly, our perspective shifted and we had an itching desire to connect with nature as more of our daily norm. Then my aunt called one day, on Dan’s 30th birthday in fact, and told us about a little hut on Studland Beach that had come up for lease. We haven’t looked back since.
Changing careers is hard. But it’s worth it. That little hut was the basis…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, 01-Jul-2015