{"id":1453,"date":"2014-09-02T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T17:13:19","slug":"but-what-will-you-do-when-you-get-back-sepha-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"But what will you do when you get back? Sepha Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"Bagan<\/a>

Bagan rainbow\/Sepha Brook<\/p><\/div>\n

This question once seemed very remote…<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just landed back in London life after nine months of travelling the world. I\u2019d dumped my corporate job, put my suits into storage and flown to Brazil. New experiences and friendships\u00a0came thick and fast. Rats ate my sandals in India, a monkey bit me\u00a0in Nicaragua and I \u2018technically\u2019 crossed the border into North Korea.\u00a0 My furiously militant world tour took me to twenty different countries across all continents (okay, not Antarctica).\u00a0 And now I find myself sat on my sofa back in Clapham\u2026applying for jobs.<\/p>\n

Daily freedom and excitement has been replaced by excessive napping and an unhealthy obsession with checking my dwindling travel blog visits (www.sepha.co.uk<\/a> anyone?). I wait outside the gleaming offices of friends for stolen lunch breaks whilst former colleagues off work with newly birthed spawn beg for adult company.<\/p>\n

Between outward bound expeditions I have become a productive chef, cooking and freezing in excess of 70 individual meals in preparation for efficient evenings when my daytimes are once again consumed with \u2018actions\u2019, \u2018deliverables\u2019 and toilet tourism (when nature dictates, covert visits to a different floor to cover one\u2019s scent).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also become a labourer of sorts \u2014 cutting tiles, painting wood and brewing vats of tea. This is me \u2018helping\u2019 my boyfriend on various building, architecture and carpentry projects. In reality, I\u2019m worried I might start browsing the Daily Mail<\/em> website if left home alone for too long.<\/p>\n

As I\u00a0currently possess a post-travel food baby, possibly twins, running also gets me out the house. The world is my gym (I can’t afford my former yoga membership) and looking slinky in a trouser suit is my motivation (and cake).<\/p>\n

For an unemployed person, I\u2019m confusingly busy. But alas, the need to gorge on avocados and the desire to ski at least once a year has led me to drop the flip flops, wedge my trotters back into heels and to talk endlessly about my professional achievements to strangers in small rooms devoid of personality. In truth, a renewed sense of daily purpose will be revitalising and this crept up on me around month six whilst I was pottering around Tokyo.<\/p>\n

It’s well documented that a daily occupation helps keep the mind healthy, and I’m moving closer to the edge. But when\u00a0it comes to jobs,\u00a0global adventuring\u00a0has given me the confidence to know my worth, know my abilities and value what I enjoy. Consequently, I’m a more discerning customer. Admittedly, I don’t have the balls to train in taxidermy and stuff deceased family pets ‘in character’ (my plan of action whilst travelling…)\u00a0but I did turn\u00a0down a job offer which would fund\u00a0multiple avocados but ultimately rot my under-stimulated brain.<\/p>\n

So until my just right-porridge comes good, I’ll be stirring vats\u00a0of chilli con carne and touring the perimeter of Clapham Common.<\/p>\n

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