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Career stories

The best advice you’re going to get about any job is from someone that is actually doing it. So we asked real people to tell us their stories and experiences, what they like and what they don’t like about their jobs to help you with your career search.

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Sandra Reynolds
Sandra Reynolds – Author and Blogger, The $120 Food Challenge
12 April 2010

‘I am passionate about teaching people not so much how to cook but how to eat, how to plan a menu for the week, how t...

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Jane McKenzie – Performing Arts Tour Coordinator
Jane McKenzie – Performing Arts Tour Coordinator, Arts on Tour New South Wales
18 August 2008
'Performing arts is such wonderful way to pass on messages because many developing countries have a strong oral traditio...

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Rachael Bermingham
Rachael Bermingham – Author, 4 Ingredients, Motivational Speaker
‘Ladies, don’t compromise – if you want to have a career and also be a hands-on parent, then you can do it too. You have...

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Flying Officer Gangireddy Rajashekar
Flying Officer Gangireddy Rajashekar – Electrical Engineer Officer, Royal Australian Air Force
‘The air force had everything that I was looking for, the variety and the lifestyle.’
Flight Lieutenant David Palmer
Flight Lieutenant David Palmer – Armament Engineer Officer, Royal Australian Air Force
’What we say is without armament the Air Force is pretty much just an expensive airline.’
Bill Birtles
Bill Birtles – Journalist and News Presenter, Triple J
‘First of all, you need to be really persistent just to get a solid job in the journalism industry.’
Flying Officer Lee Carruthers and Flying Officer Bryce Harris
Flying Officer Lee Carruthers and Flying Officer Bryce Harris – Airfield Engineer Officers, Royal Australian Air Force
‘Having gone from start to end of a project in constructing an airfield, at the end it did feel quite surreal in the fac...