We were excited to be asked to share our story with startups.co.uk in their Just started column. Feels like we’ve been doing this for ages but I suppose in the big scheme of things we have only just started (and are still building) Esc. You can check out the original interview here. What would you [...]
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I have just spent two hours cruising the internet looking for jobs. I’ve been on the Guardian’s job site, I’ve been on Charityjobs, I’ve been on Third Sector jobs, I’ve been on the Times job section. And I’ve come to the conclusion… Most job descriptions are SO boring. Even what could end up being relatively [...]
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Dom always bangs on about how he looks forward to the day when he can stop eating sardines out of a tin. This blog post is dedicated to that aspiration! Oh, and that’s me eating my tuna sandwich lunch today on Dom’s balcony. A Leap of Faith Quitting your job to start a business is [...]
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Less than 12 months ago EsctheCity.com was launched with no more than a rather basic blue blog. A straight-out-of-the-wrapper type blog. The type you look back on and think ‘what were we thinking?!’ We also had a load of PowerPoint slides outlining our vague aim to build a “community of like-minded people who believed there [...]
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Here is an incomplete list of some things that that we have learnt over the past 10 months of getting Esc off the ground. There’s a lot more to it than this list and lots of these points deserve further explanation. What do you reckon? 1. Evolve the idea – sit on it, think about [...]
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Don’t pick a job that likes cogs. Don’t pick a job that insists on advanced degrees. Don’t look for safety. Fail often. Fail in public. Try to find things people will criticize. Learn from your mistakes, with eagerness. Do difficult emotional labor that others fear. Be generous. Connect. Have fun! Read more: http://personalmba.com/seth-godin-linchpin-indispensable/#ixzz0ra23UEDk
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Work nightmare. Your boss is crazy person. We can’t say it any other way. Some of the most successful careers I’ve witnessed have been born of women who are able to overcome one of the scariest situations – the very bad boss. It’s not an easy process – it requires focusing more time and attention [...]
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We all know what the perfect job is. It’s highly-paid, well-respected, high-profile, intellectually stimulating and emotionally rewarding. We also know that isn’t our job. We read the career biographies of famous musicians, actors, sportsstars, charity crusaders, politicians, celebrities and all-conqueringentrepreneur CEOs. We watch people fight for a dream job on TheApprentice. We see people energetically and passionately [...]
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With the downturn in the market, not only are job seekers aiming to escape the city they are seeking alternative careers. Any career change has a risk element, but it also presents you with an opportunity to reinvent yourself and focus on skill sets you may not have used, or don’t realise you actually have. How [...]
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Escape the City provides exciting options for young professionals who want to do something different. Escape the City is not about leaving your job and cruising off around the world on a permanent holiday. It is about taking the skills you have learnt in the corporate sector and using them to do worthwhile things elsewhere.
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“We are defined by the jobs we choose. Escape the City have successfully diagnosed that, for a host of reasons (parental pressure, status anxiety, the feeling of time at one’s back), many people choose jobs that leave them dramatically under-fulfilled and under-stimulated. “The City” is thus defined not in geographical or occupational terms – but [...]
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Ultimately, your escape plan is doomed unless you have a proper ‘money plan’ in place. Dom and I have experienced this through our own escapes. We both have plans in place to help us survive the period between quitting our jobs and Esc paying for itself. I save on rent by living at home and [...]
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“So where next?” It was September 1st 2006. We’d just welcomed the ‘first footers’ onto Vorovoro’s golden sands and Tui Mali had accepted our offer of the tabua (whales tooth) as our social contract with his community. We had begun. I’m not sure who had asked the question but it stuck in the back of [...]
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Esc is proud to strongly recommend that you join a couple of British Adventurers “on the Water for a 150 Mile Charity Challenge Between Bath and London.” If ever there was a photo that encapsulates Esc in an image this would be it… love the look on the kayaker’s face! Between June 2nd and June [...]
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“I saw you on the telly” screeched the voice from two checkouts over. Everyone looked up. “yeah, you were towing tyres or something training to walk to the North Pole”. My cheeks flushed deep scarlet; unless Ben Saunders was standing at the next checkout, she’d picked the wrong end of the globe, but her comments [...]
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GUEST POST: There are so many exciting opportunities on Escape the City; how do you begin to work out what’s right for you and reflect on who you are, the experiences you have gained to date and where you want to be in the future? Here are ten really important questions for you to consider [...]
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One of the first things we learnt when we decided to build Escape the City was that whatever idea, plan or project you are working on, the only way to work out whether it is actually going to work in practice is to start. That doesn’t mean that you have to risk your shirt on a [...]
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I have just finished reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. “Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty that ended the Revolutionary War”. I share [...]
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From a friend in Nepal: “My project here really is genuinely interesting to a lot of people. I talk about it more confidently now, knowing that it catches people’s attention, and that it was my idea, and I’m making it happen (albeit with a lot of help) – what a confidence boost! And if I can turn [...]
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A big thank you to BusinessBird for sharing some really useful hints and tips for how to get through some mind-numbingly boring exams whilst also juggling your day-job… What is BusinessBird? [The majority of the site was built and the content written at various Starbucks restaurants scattered throughout Hong Kong- The result of a ‘Big [...]
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