Although I enjoy reading and writing, being forced to write essays about books that often didn't interest me meant that my results in humanities perhaps did not properly reflect my abilities. During this time I became a bit of a music fanatic.
Higher education is a strange system.
It seemed even stranger when I started my first job at Macquarie Bank , Sydney. I was able to apply none of my calculus studies and instead, was introduced to the world of relational databases in my new position as a Database Administrator. In this role, I specialised in infrastructure development and maintenance, with my most significant project being the design and development of an extensive set of intranet pages for our team and the developers we supported. In the end, I stayed in this position for only a year. Having seen many friends and colleagues heading to London to live, work and of course travel, it was inevitable that I would get the bug myself.