Changing track

Q‘I feel like I’m permanently switched on and running at full tilt. Work is relentless – I run a department in a multinational and, after losing two team members who were never replaced, I’ve ended up

There comes a point, usually somewhere between the last kid leaving home and the first pension leaflet appearing in the post, when many women pause and quietly ask themselves, ‘Is this it? What’s next

Successive generations of savers have built retirement plans that come to fruition when they stop work – often the time when they can start claiming their state pension, currently at age 66. But many

British workers are among Europe’s most miserable and ‘quiet cracking’ their way to burnout. But what’s really going on? And can approaching career motivation like desire help us feel a bit more alive?

If you’d told my younger self that my 50s would be the decade I’d run three independent bookshops, put on huge author events with the likes of Michael Palin and Matt Haig, and win a FutureBook Award,

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