About Kieran Torbuck
Thanks, I really appreciate you wanting to get to know me as a person, not just a content writer. To show my gratitude, you'll find links here for hidden pages where I share cool stuff that I like. Here's a little about me:
Background
I come from a loving home in Hertfordshire, England.
Timeline
2016: I graduate and get a job taking lecture notes for disabled students. I get paid to go be a student again. It's the best job ever.
2018: The government cuts pay for disability services. Obsessed with investing, I get a Master's in Business Management and pursue a career in finance.
2019: I land a job in a large bank, with the unusual role of handing their ill-gotten gains back to the public.
2020: My girlfriend of six years gets her PhD, and her scholarship terms say she must return to Thailand to work. I go with her. We get married and I teach English to pay the bills.
2022: My wife changes jobs and we move. I quit teaching and send two articles to Listverse. Both get published. I'm paid $200 and have a new career.
2024: I meet an English expat through Twitter who runs an SEO writing agency. He teaches me the tricks of the trade and adds me to his freelance writing team.
2025: While I continue writing for Listverse and the expat SEO agency, I start freelancing for a US-based SEO agency. Things don't work out. I use what I have learned to start building my own blogs.
Goals
To turn my curiosity into a career.
Influences
See my favourite books on my "Books I've Read Twice" page.
Find other writers and bloggers I follow on my "Blogs I Like" page.
Random Stuff
My love of weird facts is no coincidence. My parents are keen quizzers, and we've met on Zoom most weeks since COVID to do Jay's Virtual Pub Quiz together.
I'm a keen runner and once won a 10km race wearing what were, essentially, crocs.
My wife and I are animal lovers. We've rescued and rehomed two abandoned puppy litters and many street cats and dogs in Thailand. Five of them (three cats, two dogs) live with us.