Success by design

Who knows what the future holds? For one traveller it held a change of country and a whole new career.

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After completing an apprenticeship with British Telecom - today known as BT Group - Oliver 'Oli' Reeve was bitten by the travel bug and set out to see the world. Although he didn't plan to set down roots in Australia, after a while he decided he wanted to stay.

Well...who wouldn't?

Like many travellers, Oli found hospitality and bar work readily available, and for the next decade or so, that was how he spent his working days and nights. He must've been fairly good at it, because he ended up managing a Sydney establishment.

The decision

"There'd been a few moments where I'd started to think I'd never really intended hospitality to be a career," remembered a thoughtful Oli when asked about that period, "and that time was getting away. I knew I needed to start thinking about what I wanted to do."