As redundancies rise and AI takes work, it can feel like a turbulent period to be in the jobs market. Instead, it might be the time to turn a long-held passion job into money-spinner.

Like many who worked in the travel industry during the COVID years, Anna Shannon found her job became redundant. Rather than wait for the industry to pick up again, she started working on a passion project.

Executive coach Mark Hodgson says he was grateful for the redundancy as it allowed him to re-think his career.

“I saw a way to combine my travel agent and marketing experience as a way to help an industry that was completely decimated at the time,” Shannon says.

She felt confident that when travel returned, millions of Aussies would be looking for new travel agents as many had gone out of business. She started her website Travel Agent Finder to help travellers find the right specialist and help agents revive their........

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