She loved the travel, meeting new people and having all sorts of off-the-beaten-track experiences and she is hoping her new venture will offer her the same.
Mrs Cox launched Kara Jane Visuals, a videography business, last year.
Her summer schedule has quickly filled with weddings, as well as an ''exciting'' project to promote North Otago, collaborating with a range of local businesses.
Mrs Cox (28) grew up on a farm at Enfield and was educated at St Kevin's College.
She left in her seventh form year to work before studying photography at the Christchurch Design and Arts College.
After graduating with a diploma in contemporary photography, she decided to move back to North Otago and got a job as a rousie for Owen Rowland, to ease the pressure of her student loan.
Then she met Craig Cox, now her husband. He travelled the world shearing and she decided to join him.
Between 2008 and 2012 she travelled from farm to farm, country to country, as a wool-handler.
''We'd be here for November, December, January. Then in the middle of February we'd go to America until May. Then we'd go to England, Scotland, then to Western Australia and then back here for the summer,'' she said.
She stopped travelling in 2012, after getting married and buying her grandparents' old house on the former family farm.
In 2013, as she photographed a wedding, she chatted with the Christchurch videographer who was also covering the event.
''I pretty much spent the whole day talking to him [the videographer] about what he does,'' she said.
''I was like `Wow, that's amazing. I want to learn how to do that'.''
She enrolled with the Southern Institute of Technology and after a year's study by distance, graduated with a diploma in digital film.
''I felt so old studying, but I've put everything into this and got so much out of it,'' she said.
She said she was still passionate about photography and enjoyed doing her own artistic personal projects, but video created a more raw, emotional product.
''You watch it all unfold,'' she said.
''With photography, I loved it, but I never had that drive, but this, I want to make this happen. This is what I want to do.''
As a film-maker, she said her goal was simple: to create beautiful visuals that people loved and that she was proud of.
A standard wedding package would involve eight hours of filming, which would be cut to five to seven minutes.
''It's like a music video - flashing everything together - with music and audio,'' she said.
Ultimately, she would like to do destination weddings.
''I love to travel and if my job can help me do that, that would be amazing . That would be my dream,'' she said.
Her husband had been an ''awesome'' support for her. He continues to travel as a shearer and spends seven weeks each year on the Italian island of Sardinia.
