Retail mate.
Background in business and management liabilities.
Having a bit of a mid-life crisis at the mo though and thinking about a fresh start.
Do something for the soul before it’s too late.......probably won’t but definitely thinking about it
Is that part of the risk assessment process for loans etc?
I don't know anything about it really, but I remember years ago when I borrowed some money for the company, I had to have my accounts "risk assessed". They used another term for it, but the fella that I spoke to said that's what it basically was.
A friend of my wifes went to work for a charity for autistic children, as a fundraiser.
It's non profit, and they have to compete like crazy for grants, but she finds it rewarding.
The context is that she'd been some sort of banker (not retail), and while she wasn't rich, she wasn't skint either and it was a bit of a gamble for her.
The point being, I think most drastic career changes before pension are a gamble.
On the flip side, the fella I did the Camino with was 22 years a Marine, and gets around 12k a year pension, owns his house.
He works when he wants to, doing whatever he fancies, he's off on a motorbike trek to the Arctic Circle in a month or 2 riding up through the Nordic countries.
He's living his dream in other words, but he has a solid pension and his house that he owes nothing on to fall back on should he ever need to, and he's not 50 yet, so as he says himself, "plenty of time to do something I like if I find it."
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