Common regrets of the mid-career professional

It wasn’t until I was in my 40s that I realised that I could go into business. I feel like I wasted more than 10 years prevaricating over whether this was the right decision – I now realise I should have just started small and learnt as I went along,” says Gina, the founder of a successful branding business.

She was speaking on her journey as an entrepreneur at a recent forum, and says she was thrown into self-employment when the bank she worked for restructured and let go of a quarter of the workforce.