Wok In A Box.

This is another story of a man following his dream like in my blog, “Doctor Or Carpenter?” And in fact it was in the Herald Sun Newspaper on the same day (7^th of Feb). Only this time it was a young Accountant on a foreign holiday when he came across his dream. And whilst a sharp change from his previous career, it was also in many ways an extension of it. He was sick of working as an accountant and wanted to do something new and so whilst on a Thailand holiday in 2002 this chap was inspired to go into the fast food industry via the Noodle industry.

So he brought the idea to Australia and set up his first “Wok In A Box”, shop in 2002. But rather than just stick to the one store, he used his accounting knowledge to take the business into franchising and now there are 34 stores across the nation turning over $ 15, Million in 206-07, with plans to have 100 stores in Australia and New Zealand by the end of 2010.

Now as my family will tell you, I am not really into Noodles in any way, shape or form, at all, (although they are,) so I have not seen, let alone tried the food at “Wok In A Box”, so will take his word that they ”do good, healthy take-away food at a reasonable price.”

What attracted me to this story was the example of a person finding something outside of his “normal Box” and pursuering it. This time using lots of his previous skills and trade, to make his dream more successful.

Again, is there something else that you would prefer to be doing, that you could perhaps use your present skills and abilities, but perhaps in a different way. I am not advocating, “chucking everything in” and chasing fanciful dreams, but perhaps there is something that you may actually be more productive and useful doing? I will leave it to you to ponder that long and hard before you decide. Walter