Redundancy saved me from a tedious corporate career focused on making money so I could avoid thinking about what matters. I would have, no doubt, carried around an additional 30 kgs which corporate largesse guarantees. Being unceremoniously dumped on to the street gave me time to think about life - for about a week. Having to ensure my children and I ate, I’ve spent the past two decades in the gig economy, a sexy, bullshit term for odd-jobbing. I’ve had a range of varied roles, some of them interesting, most of them a means to an end. On the plus side I have worked with many wonderful people (and the odd git).It was a brief, precarious stint inside a university of wonderful colleagues and toxic managerialism that reignited my desire to make a difference (and try to escape the odd-jobbing world). Bringing together my love of writing with a passion for addressing societal ills, I started researching and writing what I plan (hope is not a strategy) to become popular fiction series. The books are set in a projected future New Zealand - imagine New Zealand in two to five years and you’re in my world.If you want to know what I’m thinking, check out my substack where I’m publishing the first novel in the series as well as storing material for the future. To keep myself grounded, a particular George Orwell quote is never far from my thoughts.“The mistake you make, don’t you see, is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You’re trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can’t. One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing.” — George OrwellRead more about this authorRead less about this author