New Tricks

Career-wise, being 51 is a difficult age. As a contractor, life experience means something for clients, but hiring a 51-year-old into a company tribe is not something many fresh-faced, entrepreneurial companies make a recruitment priority. People associate energy and commitment with younger ages – which is nuts when you see me hit the dancefloor. The […]

Smiling through rain

You can feel it in the air, the nervousness of finances. Everyone can sense it, that creeping cost to exist; to eat, to be warm, to get around. After Brexit, Covid-19, war in Europe and political chaos, the everyday certainties of price and process we took for granted are eroding like a crumbling sea wall […]