Here is a copy of an article I did with Stuff a while a go. This was a follow on from an advert I did for the tax agent I use called Hnry.

It was super cool to do and gives a you a little insight into who I was and why I became a personal trainer in my 30s.

Leaving behind a career as a teacher in the UK is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’d gotten to the point of teaching where I was aware of the fact that I was starting to burn out.

It was something that I enjoyed, but it was getting to the point where if I didn’t take the opportunity to move back to New Zealand to explore a new career, then I’d find myself in a situation where I would be forced to leave because I just couldn’t do it any more.

Personal training and being self-employed gives me the freedom to spend more time with my family.

I’ve got an eight-year-old and a five-year-old. With a young family, if a kid is sick and can’t go to school it is relatively easy for me to contact whoever I’m working with that day and reschedule to look after my family, and put them first, versus with my experience teaching in the UK, unless hell was freezing over I had to be there.

To read the full article, head to www.coachcarl.co.nz/blog/getting-into-stuff-why-this-teacher-isnt-regretting-quitting-his-day-job

Author: Carl Rein

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