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So in 2017, I left Malaysia to follow my husband back to Australia, and to be with my children in Australia. I left my full-time work as a Senior Lecturer at a public university in Malaysia, property, family, and friends. It wasn’t an easy decision to make but it was a worthy one. I left without much thought on what will I do in my career path. But I do have a dream, that I want to go back on my design practice and less academic work. I have been too long as an academic and while I was in that position, I feel that I needed to go back to a technical-driven part of my career one day.
Life in Australia seems easy to many, but not to us. We are back in Melbourne with 2 little kids, no family, and no job for me. We started from scratch again but with a big dream that we will find the balance and quality of life here in the city of Melbourne that we used to know. Work-life-balance as they all said here. What we cannot find in Malaysia, and the reason why we decided to move back here.
I am going to stop here and will continue again this post for Part 2 when we arrived in Australia. What happened, how do we start, the challenges and the fun living in Melbourne with little children.
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