As new research suggests many of us don’t peak creatively until our 50s, Clare Thorp talks to five entrepreneurs who reached their career nirvana when they were least expecting it Six years ago, at the age of 53, Liz Wilson was feeling adrift.
Recently separated from the father of her three children, she was on her own for the first time in 25 years, living in a new house and working as a primary school teacher. ‘The kids were getting older and I was thinking, there’s got to be more than this,’ she says. ‘I liked my job but I knew there was something more in me.
I didn’t want to be doing the same thing in five years’ time.’ To take her mind off things, the keen home cook signed up for a three-day bread-making course. ‘I had a lot of
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