“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” The sign in the living room of Matilda Heveldt’s home pretty much sums up all she’s learnt from the past decade. The adage informs the laid-back lifestyle Matilda, her husband, Michal, and their children, Lani and Evie enjoy in the central Queensland city of Rockhampton.
Matilda, an HR consultant who’s previously studied international business, grew up in Rockhampton, where the population of 110,000 primarily services the surrounding agricultural and mining industries. As with many of her school friends, she moved to Brisbane for university, and then work took her to Perth and back to Brisbane. Along the way she met and married Kiwi-born Michal, whose career as a machine operator means he lives the FIFO (fly-in,…
