For many, the route towards teaching within education, and in particular, higher education (HE), does not always follow a straightforward, linear fashion. Indeed, some take unconventional routes, and this is particularly apparent within the context of UK HE given that the requirements of this sector oftentimes specifically ask for significant industry experience. How else to develop this, other than through experience itself? Accruing it, admittedly, is particularly helpful in underpinning and developing the vocational/professional expertise of lecturers (that benefits students), yet to have gained this oftentimes means shifting from one career to another, in this case to HE.