I had reached a point in my career were I was tired of teaching the same courses, being forced to use technology that didn’t facilitate learning and being asked to publish when I’m not lecturing 15-20 hours a week. On top of that, I was waking up at 4am to work on my PhD, which is a part-time job in itself. What really bothered me was that my doctorate was in educational technology, but the usual academic bureaucracy was not interested in any initiatives from the bottom. Instead of being bitter, I let the cliché’s run constantly through my head, “everything happens for a reason”, “what doesn’t kill you makes your stronger”, “when one door closes, another door opens”.