Having studied and worked in the business of IT and Communications for a good 6 years, I made a drastic decision to change my life by finding something that would enable me to learn a skill. Something manual and scientific. Over the years I have improved my soft skills tenfold, but I have never actually got my teeth stuck into something that I actually wanted to master. Surfing of course has been a long and slow process of learning a skill, but I can say for sure that I will never be able to make a living out of it.
I was looking for years for something that I thought would fulfil me, and give me the opportunity to spend time outside, rather than in an office, getting my hands dirty and working with nature. I found a degree at a local college to where I was living in Brighton, which gives students two years of understanding how wine is made and produced. I was sold on the idea as soon as I read the course description. Being slightly wary of the way that higher education is 'sold' to prospective students via websites and booklets (a previous MA in Digital Culture and Technology soured the taste of that), I decided to head up to the college and meet with the teachers and take a short course in vineyard management. I was enthralled by the details and the science that went into something so alien to me... and I was hooked!
I quit my job and managed to find a placement for vintage in a winery in the Marlborough region of New Zealand.
After a short stopover with some old friends in Australia, I headed over to NZ to start work...
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You left us high and dry mate!
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