Gerry Reynolds on looking for something to do
After a year spent backpacking in Asia, Gerry Reynolds found himself in Australia with no job, no cash and no plan.
“I came on a whim, I didn’t come looking for a job,” Reynolds says sitting in Medium Rare’s head office on Jones Bay Wharf in Sydney’s Pyrmont. “I was in my 20s and loved my life in Dublin. I loved my job, my car, and my apartment. But my friends were all about to marry each other and I was becoming scared that would be my life, so I just went travelling.”
Arriving in Sydney in 1986, Reynolds’ first gig in Australian media was freelancing, writing a piece for magazine on young Australian
