The start of something new

I shouldn't be scared.

I should be this confident creature.

After all, i've moved over to the other side of the world by myself.

I think it's best if I explain this from the start.

7 or so years ago I applied for a job at a theme park.  It started off as a joke from my sister who sent me the application as a joke. "You can be a carnie!" So I applied.  I was never one of those people who always knew what they wanted to do.  I loved music, I loved movies.  Not really a career when I can't sing/play an instrument or act to save my life.  I was always in a black hole.  Everyone around me went off to uni and I was lost.

So I went to my interview as a joke.  A joke that as it turns out, lasted 6 and a bit years.

"Don't make this your career Sam" I can still hear my Mum saying to me.  But I was comfortable.  I had met some of my best friends and it was a place I could be silly and come out of my shell.  People always used to tell me that I sounded great over the microphone but I never really thought anything about it.  I was more concerned in making people laugh (which is still high up on my to do list every day)

Fast forward a few years, I was on a tour of Europe and struggling to get along with people in my tour group, when one guy said something to me.

"You have a great speaking voice."

I've been hearing this for years but that was from my friends and co-workers.  Here was this guy that I had known for 4 days at this point to say something like to me.  So I had to do something about it.

Radio.  How could I have been so stupid.  I have wasted so much of my life in a job that was so much fun but couldn't be my career for my mothers state of mind.  So I did a short course and fell in love with it.  It was the one thing I was actually excited about doing.  Thinking up stories and being creative about interviews.  Everything about it.  So to completely change my life I quit my job and moved to the other side of the world.  Who would love a token Aussie in London?  It would be easy to get a job in radio right?  Wrong!

So I slipped straight back into a customer service job that I would of loved before I found my passion for radio, but now I just dread because every time I am there means less time I could be learning about radio.

So now here I am.  A year anniversary for being in London and thanks to a friend an idea has been implanted in my mind.  PODCASTS!!  I am currently working on my first few podcasts that will be made available to download on itunes eventually.  I will blog a lot more (without being forced by my housemate to do so) and just get myself out there in social media all together ( YouTube eventually when I get over the fact that I hate looking at myself)

So stay tuned because my voice will be coming to a speaker near you

Aussie Out!
xo