Making the Leap

When this Blog idea came about I wasn’t sure what to write but it’s given me a good chance to say my farewell to a place I’ve been where I’ve been the Head of Interactive Development…cough…GEEK....cough….. for just over a year and have been able to get much much better in my field, work with really big clients and all without compromising my ‘no to corporate machine’ ideals. Best of all I’ve made some good friends. So it seems that I better explain why I’m Folking Off…sorry.

I’ve decided to make the leap to go and work and live in Vancouver, Canada for the next year. I have a girlfriend in Vancouver you see, sorry that sounds like I have lots of girlfriends in other cities as well, so I guess I should say my one and only girlfriend lives in Vancouver and I’m heading there to live with her.

At 26 I see this as the best point in my life to do this. While the main reason for my trip is to live with my girlfriend, Vancouver is a great city with a great graphics reputation so is perfect for me as a working experience. I’ve always thought if the chance is there to work abroad then everyone should take it, especially when you’re young, Matt, Folk’s MD, will concur with this, he worked and lived in Kuala Lumpur a while back.

Anyway, as I said I’m 26 not 46 I’m not just going there to settle down and work. I’m going to be having enough fun to make all my Facebook friends and Twitter followers jealous with by skiing, swimming, hiking, cycling and sampling all the culinary delights and of course drinking the local lagers – and there are hell of a lot. Although I’ll try to not get totally shitfaced and embarrass myself every night, like when I went to Australia at aged 19, but that’s a whole other story!

I’ve really enjoyed my time at Folk and hope that I’ll be working here again in some way or another.

Different people have told me that I’m either brave or crazy. I like to think I’m a bit of both, I can’t really think of any of my friends who would do this, but then none of them are in this situation so I can’t judge. As this is a Blog I guess I should be promoting a discussion of some sort so my question is, am I brave or crazy? I don’t want to influence your answer anymore but I’m cycling up 3 mountains around Vancouver, Cypress, Seymour and Grouse………..I’ll leave you to be the judge.

Cheers

Greg Conn, Head of Interactive Development, Folk Creative