MAKING A CAREER OUT OF A PASSION

Work. There’s pretty much no escaping it. It dominates our adult lives, with the average worker spending around 3,500 days of their life doing their job.

Covid shifted the world of work dramatically, with sudden and severe consequences. It’s not surprising, with all this turmoil in the workplace, that a recent poll found 87 per cent of people had been reevaluating their careers.

So if you’re one of the many people who have been wondering how you could switch your career to involve working with, or riding, bikes, we’ve caught up with six amazing women – all who’ve combined their passion for riding with their professional careers – to find out what they do and how they got there.

LAURA ROBSON

■ Physiotherapist: Santa Cruz Syndicate Team

Combining a career in healthcare with mountain bikes might not seem like the easiest or most obvious fit, but Laura Robson is doing just that. As the Santa Cruz Syndicate team physio, she provides physio/medical support to the riders, helping to keep them in peak racing condition.

“I always knew that, going into physiotherapy, that I wanted to work