Laurie Simpson is in the second year of a part-time MPhil/PhD at Canterbury Christ Church University having previously undertaken both a Masters and a Qualification in Career Guidance at this institution.  Her enthusiasm for her field has been developed through guidance practice in a secondary school and a college of further and higher education, and she has facilitated the steering of exemplary careers education in schools and colleges across Kent. She is currently working as a Career Consultant at Canterbury Christ Church University. With an interest in biographical and narrative inquiry, her research focuses on and considers career turning points. The intention is to explore the feelings, thoughts and emotions individuals experience at moments in time when they make what they feel are significant career decisions. These moments are then captured and thereby acknowledged by the individual using a creative practice, such as written or art-based, of their choice. The study is autoethnographical including moments from the researcher’s life as well as moments from the lives of others who are part of her cultural and social community. Layers of consciousness are explored reflectively and reflexively and the work demands an openness of mind in the research process. She has lived in Kent for more than twenty five years with her husband and children, who have now flown the familial nest.  A grandmother of one, she finds that her life is full of wondrous moments.