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Changing Careers A ‘career for life’ is increasingly a thing of the past, with research from the Association of Accounting Technicians showing that 46% of Britons will change careers during their working life. In this article, Tim Moule (1981) shares his personal experiences of a career change after redundancy.
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aving been taught maths at The Perse by Mr Whittaker, Mr Pinhey, Mrs McFarlane and Mr Bradford, I went on to study maths at
Oxford University. I had planned to train as a maths teacher afterwards, and got as far as applying, but after some rejections questioned whether I had the maturity to handle a class. After a high score in a computer aptitude test (and having relevant experience in a job between school and university), I reconsidered and decided to pursue a career in IT. I duly spent 23 years working in computing. Most of the first ten years was with a major pharmaceutical
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