How many careers have you had, or will you have?

People often say I was brave to jump off the corporate ladder, but I honestly didn't feel like I had a choice.

Wind back to 2006 (ish). I'm working long hours as an account director for a marketing agency. We're successful. I even have a company car. But something is missing and I don't know what.

I take some holiday to visit a friend in Dahab. From Dahab she's heading off to Tignes to do a ski season, she suggests, "why don't you come?". I text a bunch of mates - I think I'm going to ditch my job. One replies, "I'm coming too".

By the time I landed back in the UK we have jobs lined up as chalet hosts in Val D'Isere. By the end of the week we've handed in notice, swapping account director / senior press officer lives and salaries for £300 a month plus bed and board.

It was epic, we came back whippet fit with a totally new outlook on what it takes to make us happy in day to day life. My main discovery, I cannot survive in an office.

Fast forward a couple of years, I've retrained as a chef at Leiths Education, Isabel Milner is deep in study at agricultural college.

I've now spent 16 years in the food industry, with Feast + Fable completing the circle back to marketing, but intrinsically linked to food. 

I love what I do, still hate working in an office, but also think I'm possibly not yet done with the switch up.

I wonder what my third career will be, and I love that I don't know yet.

I'd love to hear if you've made bold career choices and how they felt. Or are you on the cusp of one but haven't made the last step?

PHOTO. Myself and Monica Gil Ruiz (a career changer from banking to food) surviving COVID lockdown with a food delivery business, filming a tacos y tequila cook-along.

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Feast + Fable is the leading designer of brand experiences with an edible twist.

Formerly working as Gingerline 's Flavourology, founder Jenny McNeill has launched this new company to deliver ground breaking immersive dining and edible experiential events for both B2B and B2C audiences.