MINI: Career 180s

While the team is away on their break we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits! Like when a text about career changes led to this! Career 180s.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
I want to talk to you on the next half
an out about Korea one eighties. I've got lovely text
on one of you yesterday in Patsy's News yesterday was this.
I think you had some stats packs about people who
later on their life really regret that they feel trapped

(00:23):
in the jobs that they kind of didn't think they'd
be doing for the rest of their lives and they
wish they could have gone back.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
About fifty people or something when they were surveyed, about
a fifth thought, nah, I wish I hadn't have done this,
and it's too late to change now once they're in
their fifties.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And then Trisha said that she's in her sixties and
that's not true. She did a career one eighty where
she was a cleaner, and she went back and retrained
and she's now a teacher's aide and has never been
happy and she's in her sixties. So I'd love to
hear from people during the next half an hour. It
might motivate someone today about actually, it's never too late,
and there are so many people who've got these really
amazing stories about carea one eighties. There's a friend of

(01:01):
mine who was my first mentor in radio and one
of the best radio presenters there's ever been, called Tony
and he used to be He used to have a
massive radio show in the UK in a city called Newcastle.
Newcastle was a big, very very well known and loved
city in the north of England. Tony's breakfast show was
so big there. You know how the ratings were. It's

(01:21):
a percentage of how many out of a universe of
one hundred percent, how many are listening to your radio show.
Tony Horn for about eight years had fifty seven percent
of that city listening to him every single morning. Huge, right,
you know where we are. Imagine if you're at fifty
seven percent. And he literally was the city anyway. He
did breakfast radio for years and years and years and

(01:42):
years and then just got burnt out. He is now
a different person, far happier. He's a postman, right, and
he still listens to my show sometimes and give me
notes and feedback, which I love. My mentor is still
out there listening to.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Me, sweet together, whistling up and down even street listening
to the show.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
And no one would know and he's a post in
the city that he used to be the main guy.
It's an incredible story. So PARSI, do you know anyone
who's in a career.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
My girlfriend Lennie, who I met in radio. Lenny was
an absolute news reading legend, so big at Triple M
in the eighties and had a long radio career, then
went into PR and has suddenly had a complete change,
is now studying to be a funeral director with a
major group here in Melbourne. So that change of you know,

(02:33):
I think she just got herned out after COVID. She
work for the Health Department and that was hard. It
was tough doing PR during those years, and she's thought,
you know what, I need to do something completely different
and she's taking all those amazing people skills she's got
and she's going to marry it with the funeral industry
and she'll be brilliant with families. She'll be so good.
But yeah, hardcore course apparently like it's as you can imagine,

(02:56):
I'm pretty involved, but complete change.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Directors. You met the one Alex that we have for
my mother in law. Last year she made what is
just like the worst time for my wife and her
sister going through all. It's just like this overwhelming admin
you have to get into immediately when you're also trying
to process grief. She was incredible, just like they make
such a difference in people's lives going through that.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
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