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Briton who swapped call centre job for astronomy now chasing the aurora
pic.twitter.com/9mF1ASIgKi— Matt Robinson (@Astromackem) September 27, 2020“It’s wild when I think about it because I’m just a lad from the north, but the risks have paid off up to now,” said the 34-year-old, who spoke to the PA news agency from a fjord in the far north of Norway.“Just before I left the observatory, my best friend died, he was 31… so for around six months I was in a daze.“I decided I had to live because he no longer was and I’ve never looked back.”After seeing the northern lights for the first time in Whitley Bay five years ago, Mr Robinson moved to Finland to work for holiday company the Aurora Zone.From there the 34-year-old took astronomy jobs in Chile and the Maldives.Working in an open-air restaurant in the Maldives,
