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'This is my time now': Meet the travel agent revelling in her 'dream job' after quitting 20-year prison service career

Interview
Dea Jusufi
19 August 2026

A travel agent who put her dream of working in the industry on hold after becoming a mother at the age of 17 has said she is finally getting the chance to "do things for me" after more than 20 years in the prison service.

Carly and Seaside Travel team
Seaside Travel

Carly Taylor-Davis (left) joined Seaside Travel in January last year after 20 years working in the prison service

Carly Taylor-Davis, who joined Seaside Travel in January last year, had wanted to travel and see the world since she was a teenager. But becoming a mother at 17 changed things.

"I always wanted to go travelling," she told TTG. "That was my dream. I wanted to go and see different parts of the world. But then I had my eldest Mia and that, obviously, couldn't happen."

Instead, Carly joined the prison service at 18 where she would spend more than 20 years building a career while raising Mia and her other daughter Fern.