What is your Background / Career?

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Back during the Thatcher administration, I graduated with a Science degree in 1984. I’d been told that would lead to work, but there were no jobs, so I moved into Computers. (It was either that or Accounting).
A couple of years later, I moved to London to work in a Software house writing trading systems for brokers. My first day in London was Big Bang day.
This was the time when all the foreign banks were buying up the English stockbrokers, and I joined one of those banks to help with the integration, still on the technology side.
I wanted to move over to the Front Office, so I did an MBA in Finance hoping it would help.
It didn’t, so I joined a management consultancy.
I quickly discovered that consultancy is a racket (you can’t tell the client what they need to know, you have to tell them what will lead to more sales of consultancy services) so I went freelance.
I spent the next 15 years mostly working in a variety of banks (although I also spent four years at the BBC) on technology and reengineering projects, eventually ending up managing a property portfolio for a big investment bank.
I got fed up with work and quit, but I didn’t like being at home, so I took one last job working for a charity.
I didn’t like that either, and I finally retired in 2011, around five years ago.