When Lyn found herself working from 9am to 3am for two weeks straight in her job in marketing, she knew she needed help and realised something needed to change. What she didn’t know was that this realisation would lead her to discover her passion in woodworking.
“I talked to my manager, who simply said, ‘If you have the passion for something, you will make sacrifices for it.’ It dawned on me then that I didn’t want a desk-bound job,” recalls the 29-year-old.
She made a list of what she wanted to do for her next career decision and two points jumped out at Lyn – take a gap year and live overseas, and pick up a new hobby from scratch.
“It was around then that I wanted to make a wooden headboard for my bed, but realised I didn’t know how to, so I began to explore woodworking.”