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Have you seen the blog posts doing the rounds where you are supposed to list 25 random things about you?

25 seemed like an awful lot to share, so I avoided it …  but when one of my writing gurus John Carlton bit the bullet and listed his 25 things and then asked for his blog readers to add their two random points into the argument, it seemed right up my alley. Here’s what I wrote …

It’s funny how growing up the only non-Catholic in a Catholic girls high school will affect you. After mastering the mysteries of when to kneel, do a circle with holy water and understanding rosary beads were not something you wore around your neck to school … I decided my calling was to become a nun.

After the final bell in year 12, the nuns very sensibly sent me out into the world, telling me to come back in a few years.

… Of course within six months I was living in sin with a drummer in a very bad heavy metal rock band that played in biker bars, which wasn’t the sort of career path that nuns normally take. Later on I tried being a born again virgin … but it didn’t last.

Like John I was a bit slow on the uptake in terms of writing. After studying Psychology, Industrial Relations and the History & Philosophy of Science at Uni (doesn’t everyone do triple majors?), I fell into a Human Resource Management/Industrial Relations career … But I couldn’t work out why each role I took on suddenly morphed into writing corporate communications in large government and private sector agencies.

I knew my time as resident HR expert was drawing to a close when I found myself doing a grievance resolution process with a team who hated another team member eating smelly tuna at their desk for lunch (when all I wanted to do was hit their heads together and tell them to “get the f**** over it”).

When a copywriting guru friend explained to me in very simple language with lots of ellipses that I could actually get paid to write what I had been giving away for free, the choirs of angels all joined together and sang Hallelujah (the High School imprint lives on!) .

.. so I hit the resignation button, hot-wired my keyboard into my veins and took up the mantle of pen for hire.

One last thing – I was never great at maths and counting to two!

What about you? What are your two random facts about yourself?

Until next time

Ingrid Cliff

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