Is it possible to earn a living from juggling? It’s not your standard, nine-to-five career choice. But in the past two years, Corey Tomlins has proved that it can be done.

When aged in his early 40s, Tomlins left his secure job in the army and turned his hobby of tossing objects into the air, and catching them, into a career.

And he’s having a ball. He’s performed at the Australian Open tennis, and on King Island and the Gold Coast.

In August, he deftly took the floor at a charity ball at Crown in front of 1400 people.

But Tomlins says his most nerve-wracking gig could be performing in front of Australia’s top jugglers, as well as a few from overseas, at the four-day 2025 Melbourne Juggling Convention, which starts on Thursday.

When Tomlins was a teenager in the late 1990s, juggling w

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