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I am Liddi
I am a creator of things
ideas, processes, services, artifacts, sometimes physical, sometimes not...
I do this as it is a compulsion
I do because i know no other way
I solve problems with creativity
from what to wear to what to do...
i need to live a creative empathatic life

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- Monte Rosa as it incoporates issues of old age and integrated design
- Dress making - just do it
- Indigo dying - i have the dye, juest do it
- history...get your act together and make a picutre book

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Issues:
- parents getting older and worried about systemic issues on old age care
- design was always fund, my outlet to say that I was more than an automaton
- keeps me grounded, where i come from, where i am going to

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Issues:
- Getting older/old people
- integrated Design
People:
- Family

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- Monte Rosa
- BA
- mine

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- Family
- pictures
- old age
-design
- something new every day

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income vs flexibility
recognition vs security

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income vs flexibility

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- DT thing = MR
- designing? (but why am i not doing it?

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- cooking
- home administration
- home tax specialist
- airBnB person
- investments
- planner

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- organising photos
- learning (professional learner/Mooc)
- yoga
- drawing
- reading
-design?
- play games
- eat
- wix

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to create, maybe it is to create anything, it was just that i had specific training as a fashion designer...all my little hobbies are my compulsion

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because i dont love my job i do not have a career...

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actuarial, project manager...it creates income but it did not fulfil me...maybe it was because it wa toxic and not because of the job...it made me feel less than...

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so many, may latest project from picture books to collecting recipes, colouring material, craft...

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Who am I?
I am liddi rau, confused creative within financial sector on Cape Town, South Africa...the creative hub of the continent.

Why am I doing this?
It feels like a case of FOMO as it feels as if everyone else has a highly exciting and creative life but me...so to find a way to integrate my creative urgess with my way of earning a living...

No really why am i doing this?
To find a balance between what makes me happy and what provides me with an income...without selling my soul or loosing it in the process

What next?
I found Design Thinking as a midway balance between being creative and being in the financial sector. How do I pursue this. Where to from here...what about all the other stuff that I want to do? How do I make sure that i do not loose myself in my work? How do I remain creative in a very structured space?