Why I decided not to get a ‘proper job’

As many of you are aware I graduated a few years ago and still haven't got a ‘proper job’. For many students, that means the end of student life and off into the big wide world of 9–5 ‘proper jobs’. But that life wasn’t for me. There’s nothing wrong with it, of course, it just wasn’t the life that I wanted.

Let’s go back in time to May 2019, the month before I graduated. I had a meeting with one of the lecturers about my assignment, and in this meeting, we discussed what I was planning to do after graduation. (At the time I was still planning on doing my…