Getting stuck in as a Chippendale Furniture School student
A blog by Rupert Phelps, a former telecoms consultant
This is my blog about the 15 weeks that I have been at the Chippendale International School of Furniture.
I was a Senior Technical Telecoms Consultant working for a rather large blue chip organisation in the town of Staines in south-east England; back in May 2010 I decided to pack in my exceedingly dull, sedentary, paid, existence in leafy Middlesex suburbia for a new more physical, creative, self-motivated, countryside lifestyle. Most of my friends thought I might have been going through a midlife crisis; they might have been right, but it was a proactive midlife crisis at that!
The ultimate goal is to become a self-employed furniture maker and designer. With little or no woodworking skills, the quest was set.
