Where Are They Now? Michaela T

Sep 22, 2017

Hi Everyone!

Me loving the fact that I’m about to drive for 3 hours and dodge kangaroos so I can start my weekeeeend!! Also, notice the hot pink boots.

I’m writing this from the airport in Townsville, just waiting to board a flight up to Cairns for the weekend. Such is the consulting life…Over the past 9 months I’ve been all around the east coast and have probably spent an equal amount of nights sleeping in my own bed as I have in hotel beds.

Today is the end of my 4th week at a goldmine 140kms out of Townsville. We have been engaged to do some β€˜rapid sourcing’, which essentially means saving money really fast. More specifically, $3.2 million in 10 weeks…Happy to report we are ahead of schedule and actually hoping to hit $4m.

What does all this have to do with CoWorks?

Well I’m very proud to say that I’ve been wearing my new staff CoWorks shirt every day (albeit, underneath my 100% necessary and 100% un-sexy high vis shirt). And as the shirt and COWORKS moto so aptly say β€˜PUSH YOUR COMFORT ZONE’!

Now, I’d say that generally I’m always pushing my comfort zone in some way. However, this is a whole new challenge all together…

  • I’m on a gold mine…
    1. I’m a WOMAN on a gold mine…
  • I live on a mine camp
  • I eat (very poor vegan food) at the β€˜mess’ with all the other miners
  • I have to wear steel capped boots. Although as you can see in the photo I managed to get some hot pink boots and have become quite famous on site for them πŸ˜‰
  • I travel 10 hours each way, each week to get to and from site…This means I have to leave on Sundays at 4pm and forego half a day of my weekend :’(
  • For the first 2 weeks I worked 6am-6pm. EVERY.SINGLE.DAY.
  • I get breathalysed and randomly drug tested every morning (I hate black marbles from now on!!)
  • I hate haggling and here I am calling companies and demanding that they give us a 19% price discount all day long 😲
  • Amongst all this I’m launching my own company (more on that later 😊 )

So…yeah…life is a bit tough right now. BUT, everytime it feels overwhelming I think back to that shirt and just think β€˜you can do this Michaela’ and I know that everyday I’m learning things that will ultimately make my life and entrepreneurial career a lot easier! And despite all this I’d still say this is my favourite engagement so far (that tells you a lot about consulting doesn’t it?)!

So for all of you reading this and feeling challenged or overwhelmed, whether you are running a business, finishing uni or preparing to sit those last HSC exams, believe me when I say I know what it feels like and how hard it can be! But just keep pushing through. One day it will be worth it!

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