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Here's my (long) story. Jump to the bottom for the wrap up.

When I left school, I wanted to be a writer. I enrolled in a journalism degree with a psychology elective and within the first semester I knew I had to change majors because I loved my psychology course and hated journalism.

(I really liked to write but learning to write newspaper headlines made my eyeballs bleed.)

Despite enjoying most of the subjects, I did really badly at uni. I wasn't ready to be there (I was 16 when I finished school) and I now know I had undiagnosed ADHD, so my undergrad degree was three years of swinging between doing nothing and pulling all-nighters with a lot of binge drinking in between. Needless to say, I was keen to get out of there as soon as possible.

I got jobs in child protection, youth unemployment and eventually international student support. I've always been bright and capable, and so at 27 I found myself managing the international student program for one of the largest educational institutions in Queensland.

It was a lovely, shiny job and I wore nice suits and jet-setted off overseas regularly. I'd bought a house because they were affordable in those days, so I was the envy of a lot of my friends. 

But deep down, that job never made me happy. I knew in my heart that I wanted to go back to my first love, which was psychology, but to do that I'd need to go back to postgraduate study and I’d created a lifestyle that didn’t allow me to study full time. 

I know lots of people find themselves feeling stuck, just like I did.

Unfinished business...

After I had a baby, I again had the opportunity to pause and reflect on where all this was going.

I couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that my psychology journey was unfinished. (Maybe you've felt that way about unfulfilled dreams in your own life.)

I knew in my heart what I needed to do, so I took a very deep breath, and threw myself back into another three years of postgraduate study (with a baby on my hip) to get my Masters in Clinical Psychology.

(The complete story includes another two interstate moves, a spiritual journey leading me through various types of meditation and ultimately Buddhist philosophy / psychology, and a couple of years spent creating, running and selling an online retail store in my abundant spare time).

I still loved to write