A Zero Waste Life. Anita Vandyke

job. I climbed the corporate ladder, foregoing my passions, hobbies and creativity to chase the Great Australian (and American) Dream.

      By age twenty-six I was a manager in a large engineering firm, earning more money than my parents ever had. The day of the “broken dam fiasco” was just another day at the office. I remember sitting in that Board Meeting on Level 6, looking at my boss, my boss’s boss and the big boss, thinking, Is this it? Is this who I will become in five, ten, fifteen years’ time? I realised then that if I kept going down this path, all my hopes of living a life that was truly mine, one that wasn’t bound by golden handcuffs, would be lost forever.