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I attended my father’s retirement party last week. It was a well attended event, with lots of former work colleagues. It’s not clear that he’s actually retiring as he appears to have a selection of side projects to work on but the nature of his daily work and employment commitments has certainly changed. He made the de-rigeur speech looking back at his past jobs and illustrated a career that was interesting, varied and not altogether planned. It was financial circumstance that forced him into business rather than his intended career of biochemistry but he chose to work in industries such as textiles, aeronautical engineering, food ingredients and, later, banking.