I picked the hardest degree on the list, on purpose
I chose actuarial science because everyone kept telling me it was the hard one. That was genuinely the reason. I wanted to find out how hard.
Don't expect I will be an actuary. I just need a degree to get a job.Me, at eighteen, to my family
I finished it, then did a master's at Monash while working — led my final-year project team, interned, joined a bank. I got the whole thing everyone had pointed me toward.
It took less than a year in banking to work out it wasn't mine. Not because the work was hard; I'd already picked hard once on purpose. It was that the only part of the day I looked forward to was the part I was making on my phone.
Then I decided not to pick
The obvious move was to choose: keep the safe job, or go all in on content. Around the same time my dad asked me to come and help with the family business, so the choice went from two ways to three.
I took all three. A job, the family business, and the content — none of them dropped, none of them treated as a hobby. It's a heavier week than most people would sign up for. I knew that going in.
Never try, never know.Why I took all three
That's the part worth understanding about how I work. The content isn't a fallback from a career that didn't happen — I had the degree, the master's and the offer. It's the thing I kept when I had every reason to let it go.
