Are you a woman dreaming of a career change? Here's my advice | Emma Beddington

Two-thirds of women apparently think about doing something different with their careers. Personally, I think I’d make a fantastic archaeologist or opera singerHaving run out of cooking shows to look at with my post-work crisps, I have taken to just watching what’s on TV, which is mostly A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? and Château DIY. Both feature British people who have made radical changes, living out their dreams with wildly varying degrees of competence and success, mostly running restaurants, wedding venues, gites or creative retreats in idyllic locations.There is a reason these shows air in the early evening, as we close our laptops with a defeated clunk or get home after another awful commute: they are selling the notion that another life is possible. Only the very fortunate, or pathologically positive, wash up on the sofa at 6.30pm daily with the clear-eyed, full-hearted certainty that they have spent the day doing precisely what they were put on earth to do with their wild, precious lives. Continue reading...

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