Voicebox: Want my job?

Carmel works in the social research team at Walnut Unlimited, helping organisations find out what people think, feel, and experience.

"One day I bought a guitar, dropped out of college, and gave myself a year to make something happen with my music before enrolling back in my classes."

Talking Therapist and Integrative & Preventative Medicine Practitioner Melissa Day talks about the importance of connecting with yourself, and how her Performing Arts degree led her to where she is today. 

"Creativity really is king. It now comes under many different guises and titles, but you see that there is a big appetite for creative minds. When the landscape is ever changing, we can’t rely on the status quo, so creative solutions are needed to continually evolve."

"The most challenging aspect of music the business is holding onto the love for music and the creative spark that drives artists while being forced to earn an income from it. So having a way of making money that isn’t music-based and being able to invest in your work can help."

"Despite not being directly related to what I’m doing, my architecture degree has definitely helped me get to this point. I’d like to think it’s given me strong design fundamentals, like conceptual thinking and collaborative practice."

"Seeing myself on the page made me realise I could write and tell stories too – children like me could even be the main character – and it empowered me to start writing and telling stories of my own!"

Dawn Maria France is an award-winning Yorkshire Women’s Life Magazine Editor, Children’s Author and Broadcaster.

"You might not feel this way right now but you matter. You might not believe this right now but your opinion counts. You might not get this right now but you being here in this world makes it a better place."

"I feel very lucky to take pictures for a living since it’s so many people’s hobby. It’s a privilege to do something you enjoy as your job."

Combining her love for organising with interior design, Nicola Rodriguez started her own company Essex House Dolly. 

"As an artist myself, freedom is one of the ultimate core values I hold to. This involves freedom to express myself within the art that I create, or in the project that I get to be involved in, but with freedom comes responsibility!"