20 21 Last year I feel like I was someone made me think about what I want from desperately trying to survive so I didn’t my own life, and my friendships across have to leave Edinburgh. Edinburgh and my hometown have done wonders to reassure me that I am worthy of After two months of unemployment, I the love I’d like to receive. more or less took the first job offered to me, which fortunately turned out to be I’m never going to be the kind of person to incredibly easy-going and stress-free. Once formulate a detailed ten-year plan for my I knew that I could sustain myself, I feel like life, but I feel confident in my ability to steer I have just slowly been getting to grips with myself in the right direction, even if I might the fact that I am in full control of my life live with no hands on the wheel sometimes. now, and discovering what I’d like to fill it with. Listen to Michael’s episode Looking back at my episode, I seemed to of the podcast from 2021. have some anxiety about the world being shut off to me. While it may sound naive, visiting London with my friends for the first time definitely helped ease that a bit. The size of it is just immense, even compared to Edinburgh, let alone the tiny fishing town I come from in the North East of Scotland, so just spending a few days there and chatting with radio industry professionals helped ease some anxiety I had about my place in the world, even if I don’t really intend to live there or work in that industry anymore. I think I discovered that my interest in radio was driven by a rather narrow desire to have everyone fall in love with the same music I love, and the more shows I presented the more frustrated I became that the shows did not match the energy I desired at all. While last year I was still scrambling to become an adult with no vision of the future, now I feel more self-assured and the fog is a bit clearer. Assisting my best friend with her wedding preparations has really Michael