At 45 years old I decided to quit retail management, a job that had sustained me during my whole adult life. I went back to school to pursue a graduate degree.

The reason being, I could not free myself from a job that I had learned to hate, but had no other skills to break away.

Everyone told me that I was making a mistake, I should grin and bear it. They were not in the room when I was being told that I had great work ethics but no experience.

In hindsight I should have left earlier.