About me

Having never really felt comfortable with my ‘working identity’ as an accountant, I spent my early midlife years harbouring the dream of moving away from my corporate career in Finance, into work that ‘felt more like me’. Work that enabled me to be more creative and to express myself more fully and more authentically. At that stage however, I had no real idea what that might look like, and with a demanding job, family responsibilities and significant financial commitments, the prospect of translating this into reality felt remote!

So instead, I continued to seek out non-routine Finance roles, where I could use my core skills in different contexts, to satisfy my desire for learning, exploration and growth, and try and achieve a better organisational fit. And for a time, this approach seemed to be working just fine…

As time went on however, I began to have an increasing sense that I’d reached the end of the road with role reinvention. Against the backdrop of a number of other mid-life events, the challenges of working in a performance-driven corporate environment from which I felt increasingly distanced, started to take their toll on my health and wellbeing. Eventually, it became clear to me that the way I was working just wasn’t sustainable any longer and that things needed to change.