Life Happens - Moving to London

Around the start of May, I resigned from the stability of my progressing SOC role at an esteemed Sydney cybersecurity firm.

I worked with a great team, was attributed a LOT of freedom for how fresh I was to the industry and was exponentially upskilling through certs and opportunities. So it may appear wreckless for me to have walked away from it all by the start of June, where I had a one-way ticket to Budapest and two months of backpacking/surfing prior to relocating to London in August - with a handful of contacts and the uncertainty of no planned job prospects. That's because it was wreckless.

But in my mind, “wreckless" is the term given to a decision which sacrifices known good for the mystery of a future which could be good, but vastly different. Having missed out on my ability to live abroad through university exchange due to COVID-19, I felt a stong urge to work abroad. This desire surpassed any temptation of stability and certainty.

Dont die wondering

The aim of this short exposé isn't to convince anyone that their current situation is mundane or that high-risk decisions are unconditionally courageous. All I want to convey, is that sometimes it takes a pinch of measured wrecklessness to shakeup the landscape through which your life traverses in order to flesh out your underlying desires. If there is something you yearn for, and it won't break you, find a way to try chase it. Please :)