Comments on: Gingers can inspire too you know. Or 5 lessons from ‘How we built our careers around our passions’. http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/ The Escape blog - Our Story And Some Things We're Learning Fri, 17 May 2013 17:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: J http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-2554 J Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:53:45 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-2554 Dont’ give up..! The decision to be happy is only that.. a decision.. Finding your passion is the hard bit.. particularly if your an ENFP personality type like I am (and maybe you too based on some of your comments..

Hope this email finds you.. Stay positive and good luck!

]]> By: Jessica http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1621 Jessica Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:32:24 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1621 1. Find my passion in life!!
2. Once I have found it go after it with everything I’ve got – make a difference!
3. Find an opportunity within an NGO/business where I can develop my entrepreneurial skills whilst having a positive impact on others
4. Trust and love myself and never give up hope
5. Complete a marathon
6. Choose to be happy and make the most of my life!!
7. Be grateful and appreciate all the wonderful people in my life
8. Be more decisive
9. Don’t stop learning, trying and exploring!!!
10. Keep reading checking this site for opportunities!! :)

]]> By: Anne Dagen http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1540 Anne Dagen Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:17:20 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1540 Thanks you, that’s a great Christmas present. I’m looking forward to using the club and meeting people there.

]]> By: Team Esc http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1539 Team Esc Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:21:42 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1539 OK guys…

Sorry for the delay in getting the results to you… Thank you for some awesome entries here. Hope you’re all well on the way to making them a reality.

The judges have cast their deciding votes and they have agreed on the 5 winners:

Anne Dagen
Estha Bielawski
Will Holmes
Stacey Gledhill
Claudette Dudley

Thanks to everyone for entering. Watch this space for future opportunities to get involved with Adam Street evening memberships. We’ll be in touch separately to let you know how to claim your free memberships.

Thanks!

Rob

]]> By: Lavinia Kortlang http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1522 Lavinia Kortlang Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:50:38 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1522 Hiya

I think i have missed the deadline but thought I would post my list anyway.
1) See the Aurora Bourealis
2) Trek the Annapurna Trail in Nepal.
3) Trek in the Sahara Desert.
4) Do something challenging to raise more money for charity.
5) Go to Sierra Leone to be part of Tribewanted out there.
6) Go back to Belize to check if the school i built many moons ago is still standing and whilst there dive the Blue Hole.
7) Go to the Amazon jungle.
8) Get myself out of debt.
9) Start a sport properly – thinking of fencing or a martial art.
10) Help my friends and family to be happy.
12) Save more money and stop wasting so much of it on things like booze. Tell myself Retail therapy is not always the best therapy!

]]> By: Team Esc http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 Team Esc Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:49:07 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1509 Hi guys – thanks so much for your entries. The judges are just casting their final votes and we’ll be in touch shortly to announce the 5 winners.

No reason why you can’t still draft up your own Escape List still. If you can help anyone on the list with theirs – advice, help, inspiration, introductions – please leave them a comment!

Cheers,

Rob

]]> By: Stacey Gledhill http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1492 Stacey Gledhill Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:32:33 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1492 I know I am a little late on this one but…

1. Get myself onto Twitter
2. Buy a railcard before turning 26 in March
3. Become a member of the Royal Geographical Society and regularly go to talks to keep myself inspired and connected
4. Spend less time working for someone else and more time developing and learning about my own passions – painting, travelling, learning, reading everything I can.
5. Complete some independant solo travel through Spain, France and Italy (I am yet to have done any travel without friends and it still scares me a bit!)
6. Develop a blog for something that I am passionate about. Something small, focussed and managable, just to have something to regularly write about and commit too, and to know what it is like to have a blog.
7. Finish reading three books I have purchased and am yet to read – Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford, Tribes by Seth Godin, Common Wealth by Jeffrey Sachs.
8. Start connecting more regularly with like-minded people who want to create/be part of something bigger than themselves

]]> By: Leon Clowes http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Leon Clowes Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:28:55 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1480 1. learn to play the piano again
2. travel america and meet other people who were brought up by their grandparents
3. raise lots of cash for really good causes
4. start an investigation into why charities are run by the middle class when then should better represent the socially excluded
5. persuade Burt Bacharach to let me study his work
6. get fit and live well
7. be the best i can be

]]> By: Claire Jenkins http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1479 Claire Jenkins Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:25:10 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1479 1. Physiological: . To conquer my impatience with my co workers when working out in India…and to not say…is that an Indian 2 hours or an English 2 hours?
2. Physiological: To be brave enough to eat more street food in India of the meat variety..and experience getting very poorly
3. Physiological: Take Ed Stafford, walking the amazon, and John wood, http://www.roomtoread.org and the machine gun preacher for camp fire stories
4. Financial: save 10k to build my own treehouse in my dads back garden
5. Financial: save 10k to build 5 libraries with http://www.roomtoread.org
6. Physical: complete the 4 remaining summits of the 7 summits
7. Physical financial physiological: give up Xmas dinner to raise money for charity
8. Physiological: promise myself to keep my eyes and my heart opens…never accept second best because I’m tired of looking for the first..
9. Financial: save enough money for a 3 month back packing trip in central America to ensure that my city life doesn’t let my lights go out and risk number 8
10. Physical: take that back flip class that I have always wanted to do at the circus space in London…but can never leave work by 530 to start the class
11. Physiological: have the confidence to not tone down my personality at work as requested by my boss….Claire….the big boss doesn’t want to hear about all of your adventures…it intimidates people…. Learn to be happy with what I have done, achieved and battled through and denounce Corp bobbins!!

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]]> By: Anne Dagen http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1477 Anne Dagen Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:40:58 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1477 1 – Get fit enough to skydive again and jump from a Skyvan
2 – Finish and publish my book
3 – Acquire the e-marketing skills to publicise my book
4 – Visit the Dry Valleys of Antarctica
5 – Finish making albums from my backlog of non-digital photos
6 – Publish the approach I use for mentoring people
7 – Travel in Nunavut
8 – See an active volcano
9 – Learn to scuba dive
10 – Find out whether small boat sailing makes me seasick – and if it doesn’t, learn to do it
11 – Get together a team to develop and market the killer phone app that’s been in my mind for 6 months
12 – Visit the Orkneys, Shetlands and Faroes
13 – See Correyvreckan

]]> By: Barbara http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1476 Barbara Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:40:41 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1476 1 Dance
2 Have created a dance community via meetup, want to grow it and see other people enjoying it, also using other social media
3 Perform dance, ENJOY IT AND getting paid for it
4 Create events with a dance performance and getting paid for it
5 Travel the world and experiment different dance styles from Indian to African..
6 Organize dance and yoga workshops at rural/out of the city locations, collaborations welcome
7 Be more confident, ´behave as you have been doing this for years´,confidence and persistence are the KEYS
8 Learn a new skill which I can enjoy and also use to freelance anywhere, like Thai massage
9 Help and collaborate with other people struggling to escape cages
10 Being happy about what I do
11 Please contact me to exchange ideas and get going ! supportive comments welcome!!

]]> By: Will Holmes http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1475 Will Holmes Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:39:03 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1475 1. Finish my degree
2. Set up my own business, which allows me the freedom to explore and have adventures, but is rewarding at the same time.
3. Run more marathons
4. Complete the three peaks challenge by as many ways as possible already on 2, planning to kayak it next summer, but what after that any ideas??
5. Encourage more people to live life adventurously.
6. Spend more time in Scotland exploring.
7. On that note walk the Culin Ridge on Skye
8. Own the as much of the UK on 1:50,000 OS Maps as possible.
9. Complete some kind of expedition or adventure in New Zealand and Canada.
10. Help on a charity project in Africa.
11. Donate at least 15% of what I earn to Charity
12. Save up to buy some woodland.
13. Set up a twitter account.
14. Learn to ski
15. Save up enough money to be able to set up a trust to support adventure and exploration particularly for young people.
16. Do some public speaking.
17. Enjoy life!

]]> By: Andy http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1474 Andy Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:36:30 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1474 1. Train to be a ski instructor
2. Create website to connect freelance ski instructors
3. Generate enough income to quit the world of accounting
4. Contibute to a social enterprise through pro-bono work
5. Run the London Marathon in 2013 once I’m back from my instructor training to maintain fitness
6. Travel to Southern Hemisphere to suss out the ski industry there
7. Establish brand as the goto location of seasonnaires and instructors
8. Remove Jack Wills from the Ski scene
9. Move into a resort
10. Run a cheap hostel for seasonnaires and student travellers

]]> By: Esther Bielawski http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1473 Esther Bielawski Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:35:57 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1473 1. Hold a clothes swap event to raise money for Women for Women International – just £289 can put a woman from a war-torn country through a programme that will change her life!
2. Start doing volunteer work with Dress for Success – a non-profit organisation that provides suits, confidence boosts and career advice to low-income women in 75 countries worldwide.
3. Set up my own personal styling company that helps individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals understand how to use clothing as a form of expression of who they really are and thus a powerful form of communication.
4. Become a recognised voice in the entrepreneur and professional community on how to dress for who you are and convey the messages you want others to receive.
5. Do a year-long clothing challenge that raises money for Women for Women International, goal is to put a minimum of 100 women through their programme.
6. Write a style book that helps people to dress they way they want to but with a focus on how to do this in a budget and environmentally friendly way!
7. Launch my own clothing range using fabrics printed from the beautiful paintings that my lovely fiance produces.
8. Grow my company so that it becomes my full-time career.
9. Grow my company so that it can employ other people and supports new designers of ethical fashion.
10. Become a recognised spokesperson for how fashion can actually have a very positive impact – it is not going to go away, people will always want to buy, buy, buy – so let’s use it as an educational tool as well.
11. Launch a programme that links food and fashion to help people to be more mindful of what they eat and be healthy – look good, feel good and feel good, look good, right? Obviously the ‘eat less, move more’ mentality of the current age isn’t working – so something new is worth a try!
12. Lie down and have a short rest and then start on another bunch of projects – I’m going to live until I am very, very old!

]]> By: Khiloni Shah http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Khiloni Shah Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:29:05 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1472 1. To live somewhere where I can view a starry sky each night.
2. Pay off the mortgage on my flat.
3. To be a guest star voice on Spongebob Squarepants
4. To visit Azerbeijan for Eurovision 2012. Anyone’s welcome to join me!
5. To be successful AND happy in my next career.
6. To get my pilot’s license
7. To make it to the gym
8. To be fluent in Spanish
9. To NOT buy an ipad
10. To open up a school in Kenya for impoverished kids.
11. To drive from Cairo to Capetown listening to cheesy music.

]]> By: Claudette Dudley http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1469 Claudette Dudley Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:33:50 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1469 1. Become a millionaire doing a job I love
2. To complete a trek through the Amazon
3. To skydive again (This time not holding on to instructors leg whilst jumping out scared, bit dangerous)
4. To convert my 1st Skydiving video to DVD and show all my friends for a laugh, maybe even upload on YouTube (How bad was it mmm lol)
5. To watch a magical sunset from an Hot Air Balloon
6. To get 1000 followers on Twitter CLAUD250 – hint hint!!
7. To be a cowboy and ride a horse on an American ranch
8. Take a Photography Course
9. To complete something scary at least every two weeks
10. Write my own Travel/Adventure Blog
11. Take part in a Flashmob
12. Take a helicopter ride in an amazing country
13. To climb Snowdon
14. To fundraise and publicise Warehouse Project charity in Sri Lanka just visited, more details to follow
15. Travel to Australia and work with crocodiles
16. To take part and break a crazy world record – Suggestions accepted
17. To get in shape and complete a marathon
18. Complete a message in a bottle on an exotic island
19. To be brave enough to get on stage and take part in a amateur comedy night
20. To keep my room tidy – Flatmates requested this one lol
21. To keep adding to this list….

]]> By: Tatiana Martinez http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1468 Tatiana Martinez Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:48:07 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1468 1) Skydiving
2) Learn how to DJ
3) Walk the Great Wall of China
4) Eat junk food all day and not feel guilty
5) Make love in the toilets of an airplane
6) Drive an Amercian Muscle
7) Do Route 66 on a Harley Davison
8) Take a trip to Antarctica
9) Camel ride in the Sahara
10) Camp out in the Desert
11) Experience the carnival in Rio
12) Spend Christmas on the beach sipping cocktails
13) Get drunk in Las Vegas and not remember what happened the day after

]]> By: Tobias Mews http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1415 Tobias Mews Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:03:14 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1415 1. Compete in and write about 50 of the world’s toughest destination endurance races (8 big races so far completed, inc the MDS, Transalpine Run, DW, etc).
2. Inspire young people to take up running in order to achieve motivation, self-belief, confidence, focus and a healthy lifestyle. This will hopefully be achieved through the creation of a charity.
3. Become the UK’s leading multisport ultra-endurance athlete.
4. Successfully create a lifestyle and a career that provides enough money that I don’t have to worry about having enough, but revolves around social entrepreneurship, sport, writing and filmmaking.
5. Save enough to buy a second home in the Alps so I can ski in the winter and then in the summer mountain bike, cycle and trail run.

]]> By: Team Esc http://blog.escapethecity.org/some-things-were-learning/gingers-can-inspire-too-you-know-or-5-lessons-from-%e2%80%98how-we-built-our-careers-around-our-passions%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-1410 Team Esc Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:48:00 +0000 http://blog.escapethecity.org/?p=8232#comment-1410 Come on then? Who is going to be the brave first poster? I’ve got my Escape List brewing (Esc Rob) and Mikey’s is coming too!

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