39 is fine: travel goals turn to work goals
Back from holiday and jet lagged, I had plotted to write about music at 40, since discussions while driving down the west coast of New Zealand had turned to mix tapes and CDs and a giant stereo I adored from Currys (in the sixth form, not now, obvs). But something else has come up and I feel the need to write it instead. So perhaps mix tapes for another time. So, the something else. Work. Are you where you want to be in your career as you turn 40? Or were you, when you turned
39 is fine: And we don’t even feel it!
As part of this blog I had a grand idea that I'd interview women of note - ones I admire, ones who are famoooous, about how it feels to turn 40. But then I realised, one by one, that the women I wanted to talk to were not, on the whole, 40. oops. They were all younger - and yet these were the women I was often identifying with on social media, on TV, in their books. And it made me realise that I just don't 'feel 40'.I've written about being a fake millennial before (in Metro
