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From Corporate Jobs to Building Treehouses Our Unexpected Journey #shorts

19 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video (Mark Simpson) recounting a personal career shift: the speakers left traditional corporate jobs, traveled in 2004, and planned to emigrate to New Zealand to establish backpacker-style accommodation. The speaker mentions long experience in marketing (~30 years) and frames building a tree house as part of an unconventional, adventurous transition away from corporate life.

Questions this video answers

2004.

About 30 years.

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Why build a tree house? Yes. Not the easiest of things to build. I think a lot of our friends thought we'd slightly lost the plot. We actually went traveling in 2004. We left our corporate jobs. We both had sort of traditional corporate jobs. I've worked in marketing since, well, 30 years now. So we'd been doing the very traditional sort of careers. And we decided when we came back from traveling that we were probably going to emigrate to New Zealand and set up a backpack, because we really loved the sort of quirky accommodation.