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It is the little things, but they can be the most important.”She acknowledges that it is “hugely risky” to give up a guaranteed salary and the perks of working in the economic sector, but said that the freedom she now experiences far outweighs that risk.Claire believes lots of women are grabbing the opportunity to do their own thing after having children, and pointed out that “men do not have that natural break” like women do when they have children.One man from Cambridge who has switched career quite drastically in search of greater fulfilment is Steve Mallinson, the former chief executive of the Cambridge-based ??????, IP Access. The 55-year-old had longer to work in the film industry, and on the eve of his 25th wedding anniversary, he decided to go for it.He is currently working on a mini TV series, provisionally-titled Amphitrite, which is an adaptation of the tragic book Beautiful Bodies by Gerald Stone. He also has time to volunteer now, mentoring at The Prince’s Trust and Cambridge Judge Business School. The father-of-one admits that there are pros and cons to his new lifestyle. He is a better cook, but says that the stop-start nature of filming and volunteering is a whole different world to what he was used to. He said: “It is a sort of trade-off. You get to do the things you have always wanted to do, but there is a downside to that as there’s not the security of when you are working in a company.”Mr Mallinson highlighted the influence of the Internet in the surge of entrepreneurs, and said “ubiquitous communication via the Internet allows people to do things they never would have been able to a few years ago.”There are also examples of people whose career path takes a drastic swerve,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler outlet[/url], only for them to end up back on a similar road to the one they left. 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