01 - From Banking to Backbones: Choosing Passion over a “Proper Job”

Send a textAnnie (23, actor, just out of drama school) and Anji (53, osteopath and ex-banker) get honest about one of the messiest adult questions: do you pick the secure, sensible path… or the thing that actually lights you up?They swap origin stories - Annie ditching the uni conveyor belt to audition for drama school while all her friends headed to Exeter and Durham, and Anji leaving a well-paid, high-status banking career to retrain in her late 30s - and compare what it really feels like to work in an uncertain industry (acting) vs to walk away from a very certain one (banking).In this episode:what it was like to graduate straight into touring Jane Eyre in Chinawhy Anji’s 1994 Barclays grad scheme felt like “a job for life”side hustles that actually feed your creative workparents, privilege and permission to take a riskpassion vs security (and why you might be able to have both)“do your best, forget the rest” - their shared mottoPerfect listen if you’re 23 and panicking you don’t have it all sorted, or 53 and wondering if you’re “too old” to start again. (Spoiler: you’re not.)Thanks for listening! Follow us - we'd love to hear from you. www.2young2old.com Insta: https://www.instagram.com/2young.2old