For this career move, getting older is actually an advantage

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There are a bunch of myths about work that we tend to believe. One of the most persistent is that that older you get, the harder it is to switch careers. Once you have picked your lane, we’re told, you just have to just stick to it.

But the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. Changing careers at any age, from 20s through to your 60s, is a lot more common than you realise, with McKinsey research finding that about a third of all career changes occur after 40. And those who pivot later in life are rewarded with 28 per cent higher job satisfaction than those who moved around earlier.

Our history books are filled with long lists of people who switched their careers to better suited ones. Colonel Sanders famously worked many odd jobs, like an insurance salesman and gas station operator, before franchising his first KFC restaurant when he was in his 60s.

Martha........

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