Brisbane man Joel Hunter is forging a career as an armourer. When Brisbane man Joel Hunter finished school a few years back, he had plenty of pathways to choose from.
"I could go down the university pathway, that was all set up for me," the 20-year-old told ABC Radio Brisbane. "But I said, 'You know what? I'm going to see if I can take this passion and turn it into something.'" That passion was medieval history, and Joel has been hard at work forging a career as an armourer, sculping reproductions of historic pieces that knights wore hundreds of years ago. "When I was a kid, you'd see knights and you'd see armour and you're like, 'That's so cool, I wish I could swing a sword,'" Joel said.
"But as I got older, I guess it's that journey of discovering how people lived back then, and the techniques and challenges that they faced back then. " But unlike university or a trade, there is no apprenticeship if you want to learn this ancient craft. "Watching what they do and emulating that skill. Here's why you're checking work emails on holidays (and how to stop) Finally, the holidays are here — the break you've been waiting for.
You want to leave work behind, kick back and enjoy time with family and friends. But you're still checking work emails and taking work calls. Even if you are at a remote location that screams holiday, you're still thinking about work, or even doing work, although you promised yourself this time would be different. If this sounds familiar, you're not the only one struggling to switch off on holidays. One reason is you, like many others, might derive a strong sense of self from your work. How 100 lunches with 100 strangers changed Kaley Chu's life. Updated about 2 hours agoThu 5 Mar 2020, 10:28pm Kaley Chu has a confession: before embarking on an ambitious mission to banish her shyness, she felt like a boring person with "absolutely no stories to share".
"It's pretty hard to impress people when you're just so not interesting," she tells ABC RN's This Working Life. The business development manager had surrounded herself with similar people — who could speak her native Cantonese — since moving from Hong Kong to Australia for university. "I thought my English was OK because I started to learn English when I was three, but when I got here I couldn't understand what [people were] talking about," she says. The catalyst for change was a client meeting where she failed to utter a single word, despite being prepared.
She and her boss brainstormed ways she could improve her conversation and networking skills — and in turn overcome her shyness. Lunch with 100 complete strangers, they decided, was the remedy. So why lunch with 100 people? Entrepreneurs push for schools to provide better job-skills preparation. Posted about 5 hours agoMon 8 Jul 2019, 10:22pm Investors are calling on educators to include entrepreneurial skills in all schooling to prepare children for the future 'gig-based' economy.
Key points: Steve Baxter says a cultural change is needed to accept entrepreneurshipMoves are underway to incorporate entrepreneurial skills in the school curriculumThe search is on for a successful model for entrepreneurial education Proponents of entrepreneurialism say it teaches soft skills such as collaboration and public speaking and should be a mandatory component of the secondary school curriculum.
Investor and entrepreneur Steve Baxter said starting a business was a way to set a person's life agenda, and would become more important as society moved away from salaried roles. "Entrepreneurship does, I think, need more of a cultural emphasis that this is an OK way to go," Mr Baxter said. Returning to work after the holidays — how a growth mindset can ease the pain. Updated Mon at 12:47amMon 21 Jan 2019, 12:47am Spare a thought for those returning to work to face a pile of to-do tasks after a long summer break.
Although it seems like summertime blues are to blame, feeling frustrated or stuck in a job you don't like is hardly limited to this time of the year. Career coach Jarrod Siegertsz says he spends much of his time helping those who feel listless and dissatisfied with their job — even those who seem as though they have it made. "Even the people that you would say have a dream job talk about feeling frustrated or feeling stuck, and even sometimes anxious and stressed about what's going on," he says. Siegertsz and others have spent their careers trying to answer the question: is there any way to make work something we love doing?
Professor Jill Klein, a social psychologist from the University of Melbourne, believes this is a possibility for everyone. Knifemaker turns to mammoth ivory, banksia, stone to create unique handles. Updated about 3 hours agoMon 12 Nov 2018, 11:07pm Award-winning knifemaker David Brodziak works outside the realm of the ordinary, sourcing unusual materials such as woolly mammoth tusks and tiger iron stone to decorate his timber hilts.
His eye-catching knives come in every shape and size imaginable and he spends weeks forging designs from high quality steel. Business is booming for the 70-year-old who first took up knifemaking as a hobby three decades ago in his humble Albany workshop in Western Australia. Slice of success Mr Brodziak learnt the art of knife making from a friend and never expected it to turn into full-time occupation.
Millennials of Melbourne: Danielle Weber on making it as a painter while living with parents. Updated Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek.
Video: A glimpse inside the world of painter Danielle Weber. (ABC News) At 24, Danielle Weber still pinches herself when she says she paints for a living. Danielle Weber Age: 24Job: ArtistNeighbourhood: Mount Waverley, living with parents While studying health sciences as well as art, she built up to the point where she now derives her sole income from painting commissioned work. Welcome to Forbes. Bullseye Career Information. Indirect Paths to Success graphic. Charles Darwin University. Personal Improvement Plan.