Paula Castellane

Priya is in her late forties and spent twenty years in office jobs of steadily increasing seniority before retraining and moving into writing at 44, so she has done the thing she now writes about, budget spreadsheet included. At Simply Forties she covers midlife career change: testing a new field before you leap, retraining costs, part-time and freelance work, and the conversations at home that go with all of it. She is frank about the trade-offs and suspicious of anyone selling a five-step reinvention.