One month into working for myself and I feel like I’ve gotten to grips with a routine for the most part. At the moment that routine looks like me getting up around 8-8:30am and trying to make it to a local coffee shop for 9am. I find it much easier to get out of the …
A new chapter
Today is the first day of working for myself since I quit my job with Dell yesterday, after being with Dell for the last two and a bit years. The goal while working with Dell was to save up as much as possible and get one of my projects off the ground to a point …
Turkey to Ireland – Solo in 2013
The first time I decided to dip my toe into solo travel I was working in a software company as an intern software engineer and after a year of watching the days fly by, reading blogs of other people out exploring the world I decided that I’d had enough and I wanted a bit of …
Evaluating 2015 – 2018
In the two and a bit years since I last posted(2015-2018) much has happened. I’ve been in and out of two different jobs. Bought my own apartment in Dublin. Gotten a new girlfriend and moved in with her into a rental apartment in cork. Started RowingAdverts.co.uk a buy and sell noticeboard site for the rowing …
Self interview after solo kayak trip
While it’s nice to give a day by day, blow by blow account of all that happened to me on my kayaking trip I feel that I can often get repetitive and I might also miss out on some of the contrasting and highlighting events that transpired so I thought that the format of posing myself …
Freelance Working While Travelling – My Experience
What I expected “Working and traveling is the way to go” I was told. “You are so lucky to be able to do freelance work!” “I wish I could work and travel!” were some of the responses I got to telling people I was working while travelling. I don’t really know what I expected originally, …
Skydiving: The full experience
Since I first wrote an account of skydiving a third of the way through my training where I was still terrified of the concept of jumping from a moving place 15,000 feet up in the air I thought I’d recount a fonder experience near the end of my training with 20 jumps under my belt. …
Suger coated shit
People are trying to be to happy all the dam time. Everywhere you look, people are only showing you the best things that are happening to them. Everyone looks like they are breezing through life and having a blast. We see this, think our life sucks and then get depressed at how shit and miserable …
Fear vs experience
Walking out to the plane in the baking heat, sweat dripping down my face, the smell of burning fuel and the roar of the engines all serve to heighten my sense of dread and fear. On the way up to 15,000 feet the small, ex-military transport aircraft, crammed full of other skydivers lurches around, I …
Life Goals
Here are a few goals to keep me learning and having fun. More items will be added as time goes on…. Start a blog – 2012 Start a company (FuelBox) – 2014 Learn the basics of a Martial Art (BJJ 3 months) – 2015 Kayak accros Ireland – 2015 Learn to scuba dive (PADI Advanced …