A job can fill your bank account. But what is it costing the rest of your life?

Mental Health. Isolation. Neglect. Exposure.

These are the four themes at the heart of M.I.N.E. — Mine Your Own Business, a personal account of the search for purpose, identity and belonging within mining and fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) life.

Drawing on his experiences in emergency response, training and mining camps, Pharrell Shaymar reflects on what it means to pursue a career while trying to protect the person behind the uniform.

From long shifts and changing crews to the difference between qualifications and practical experience, the book explores communication, workplace relationships and the human side of safety. It asks what support means beyond a policy, what belonging looks like beyond a uniform, and whether financial security is enough when personal wellbeing begins to suffer.

Raw, reflective and deeply personal, M.I.N.E. follows the distance between the future we imagine and the reality we find ourselves living. It is about ambition, disappointment, self-education and the struggle to hold on to an identity beyond a job title.

For anyone who has questioned whether their work is helping them build a life—or taking them further away from it.

A job is replaceable. You are not.

M.I.N.E Mine Your Own Business

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