What shall we do today Brain? What we do every day Pinky- we shall try to change the world!
January 2016 marks the start of my awfully big adventure. For the past decade I have worked passionately as a public servant trying to make the world better through the tools of bureaucracy, but I have just finished my first week as a full-time self employed social entrepeneur.
I am not someone that ever thought that I would be trying to run a business- let alone a business that seeks to challenge the status quo and demonstrate new ways of making our cities better for people. I am a socialist, activist, idealist, feminist and equal-opportunist and believe strongly in the role of Government to assist in overcoming disadvantage in all its forms. How then, did I end up using the tools of capitalism to try and make the world a better place to live?
There isn't a single defining moment when I thought that I should give up my stable 6-figure-salary-plus-car-and-great-benefits public service job and co-found a social enterprise. My decision to leave my job to start a start-up felt more like an ever inceasing hunch that there might be another way to achieve social change and a feeling that I would deeply regret it if I didn't give this a go. Armed only with an idea, a great co-founder and a high appetite for risk I now find myself sitting at my kitchen table writing this post and thinking about the challenge that lays ahead.
I am not so arrogant to think that the work that we will do this year will fix all of the worlds problems, but I do hope that we can make even a little dent that will help people to live better lives. We only have one chance to live our lives- I plan to live the best life that I possibly can:
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. For I shall not pass this way again"
Quaker saying
Let's get this adventure started!
