My creative outlet has been satisfied by producing content for Channel Nine’s digital marketing platforms. I have been traveling the east coast of Australia to chase NRL games. I’ve been pointing social media users following the Wide World Of Sports accounts to tune into Channel Nine’s broadcast. My life has been filled with puns, gags and laughs. I’ve been working somebody’s dream job. And whilst I’ve been living a dream calling commentators, reporters and ex-professional state and national rugby league representatives – the Greats of the game – my colleagues, it’s time to hang up the boots. I’m changing codes and pursing my hunger for finance.

Who cares, right? Why am I writing this?

As I flew for the last time from Brisbane to Sydney with Channel Nine, I stared down the east coast. My eyes were lost in the clouds, something that has always left me in awe. I’ve been reflecting on how I got to be sitting in seat 10A on a Qantas 737-800. Much like the path of that flight, my journey has been short but it has taken me a great distance.

 

If there’s any message to take from this, it’s that you need to be a yes person. Say yes to any opportunity presented to you because you don’t know where it will lead. I’ve been the guy who writes terms and conditions that nobody reads, I’ve been on national television in nothing more than a blue morph suit (nobody should have to witness that), I’ve sat in the commentary box at the SCG watching test matches, I’ve conversed with past and present politicians, I’ve been a promo girl for the old Today Show Jeep’s, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve been afforded these memorable experiences because I knocked on every door in search of opportunities, and said yes to anything that was offered. I’m not the most successful person in the world, but if I died tomorrow, I wouldn’t have left wondering.

The travel stories may have been put on hold momentarily, but the perks of life are still very much alive!