About me

My name is Kate and I’m approaching my thirties a little quicker that I’d like. This blog is about all sorts of random stuff, but I guess what moves me most is personal development and improving my lifestyle for a more healthy and sustainable future.

I know a little about a lot, but I also have a BA in French from Bangor University. When I graduated, I had the good fortune to be accepted onto the language assistant programme in Guadeloupe, which was a fascinating growing experience which has shaped who I am today. On my return, I trained to be a teacher, and I taught in Secondary education for three and a half years. Teaching is the steepest learning curve anyone can climb, but I reluctantly left the profession as I felt that I was “burnt out” and had little life outside of school.

It cannot be coincidence that I left my teaching post and started a relationship with the love of my life (my husband to be - HTB as he is known in this blog). The personal sacrifice of taking a 1/3 pay cut and moving back to live with my folks was definitely worth it. After leaving teaching, I worked as a bilingual customer service advisor, working a 4 on 4 off shift pattern until I was made redundant in March of this year.

Fortunately, I found another job straight away and closer to home, and no shifts. I moved in with HTB in April 2007 and now work at the local college as manager of the student job shop and student representation co-ordinator. I am getting very good at marketing and motivating apathetic people!

I love using social networking sites and virtual learning environments, which blends with my interest to set up my online business - very much in the planning stages at the moment, so watch this space! My goal is to acheive financial freedom so that I am free to live where I want, travel, and squeeze every last drop out of my existence as Kate Saltfleet.

My other interests include saving the planet, cooking (turned veggie in October 2007, vegan in May 2008), yoga and knitting. I don’t knit nearly as much as I would like to though, and spend far too much time on the internet living vicariously through Facebook and reading blogs.

Kate Saltfleet online (a few shameless plugs).

http://twitter.com/katesaltfleet - Follow me on twitter for stuff that is so random it doesn’t even get on the blog!

http://del.icio.us/katesaltfleet - My social bookmarks

http://www.squidoo.com/katesaltfleet A squidoo lens all about me! Just what you’ve always wanted

http://katesaltfleet.stumbleupon.com/ My stumbles

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katesaltfleet/ My flickr photostream

http://digg.com/users/katesaltfleet My Digg page