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No indeed. But by all means carry on writing as a sideline and if you can fill a niche that no-one else can, you may be lucky. But it's a real tough slog out there

Good luck with that but the reason I looked for a job change twenty years ago was that I could see which way the wind was blowing. I limp along as a freelance journalist now but it's tough. Yesterday, I got my first commission for about a month and there's not a lot of work about. Last week, a...

He didn't like me much so it was definitely a curse. My current FIL is certainly no millionaire but he's a diamond geezer

I also think that if I'd asked a couple of years later, it may have been easier. They were so short of maths teachers by then that the criteria were relaxed. I was also enquiring before the days of student loans and it would have been harder to fund it. I was living with the former Mrs Gwylan...

I tried to a few years back. I'd been a journalist for about 15 years and looked for a change. As I'd done maths as a subsidiary part of my degree and had worked as statistician after leaving uni, I thought about retraining as maths teacher. I was told that I'd have to do a full maths degree and...