Darryl R Dymock

Dr Darryl Dymock has had eleven jobs and counting, including HR assistant, taxi-driver, high school teacher, soldier, university lecturer and researcher, associate professor, deputy director in a government department, and writer. He didn’t like school and had mediocre results there, and it took him a while to find a career direction. Darryl says he’s fortunate in never having been unemployed for very long over his working life, but he knows how tough it is for those looking for work, at whatever age. He’s the father of four adult children whose lives have taken quite different paths, and he has seven grandchildren, and therefore has a long-developed interest in stories for children. In his experience, Darryl thinks you get to where you want to be through motivation, persistence, being realistic and having the right support. He likes helping people with all of those. After working in Queensland, Papua New Guinea, New South Wales and South Australia, he now lives in Brisbane, Queensland with his wife and laptop.