I started my adult career life in social care, where I worked in a respite home for disabled children. Giving the parents a break while providing the kids with a fun and educational day, night or weekend. This soon included crisis intervention care and occupational therapy.“Say what you do and do what you say” became my motto and it has worked for me ever since. After 10 yrs of running this beautiful respitehome I knew that I could do this for another 10 yrs, but it wouldn’t develop me the way it use to do... I needed change. And so I packed my bags, sold my car, gave up my house, gave away most of my belongings and went traveling. In Australia ,and later New Zealand, they do not acknowledge my diploma’s, certificates nor experience so gave up the search in the social care industry.Now what? Hospitality? I do love coffee, a lot... so I did a baristacourse, and started work at Zanders, where they gave me a shot with no experience whatsoever. Worked out great and I have discovered that my social work skills go hand in hand with my hospitality skills. I’ve been working as a manager in high end restaurants in New Zealand ever since and am always eager to learn new skills. It’s been a refreshing and interesting career change.