Positive Monday: Daring Career Moves.

The media obsesses over those who have taken the plunge and made a risky move with their career. It's exciting, inspiring, and makes us a little green. It can sometimes feel as though you are stuck in a rut with your current work life, but these stories show that a leap of faith can be the golden ticket.

Thomas Backlund

Thomas is the guy who gave everything up to live with the trees and write code in a tent. He received the publicity as a by-product of using thelistserve.com (an email lottery service, allowing the winner to send out an email to everybody subscribed) to tell people about his story. Rather than directly selling his site Blockie.io, to the recipients, he told the story of how he left his home, his job and everything he had to live in a tent. His story had viral potential, as people find it hard to grasp that someone may be able to risk everything to live a dream.  Is he worried about failure? 'If you want to do this kind of thing, it’s not the end of the world if it fails.' Success.

Elizabeth Lowman

At age 30, Elizabeth decided to relieve herself of unemployment and application rejections, and take on an unpaid internship writing for a magazine. These types of placements are usually filled by student-types in their 20s, and so Elizabeth found herself in strange territory. Although she decided it ultimately wasn't right for her, she appreciated the experience, saying ' It’s a chance to dip your toes into a field you've always wondered about, it can keep your skills fresh or expose you to new ones, and it could even open doors you never expected and start you on a whole new, exciting path.'.


 Don't forget, with Essential you can broaden your horizons and gain experience with new companies - it's not too late. If you're willing to work odd shifts here and there during your jobsearch, you can visit new industries, learn new skills and even land yourself a full time position. Visit our site at www.essentialrecruitment.co.uk and see what you can do for yourself.

Have you ever done anything out of your safety zone, or know anyone that has? Comment below. 


Sources: Metro: Thomas Backlund, Dailymuse: Elizabeth Lowman