Hello, I'm Edwin Lane. This is Business Daily. Have you ever had the feeling your career is on the wrong track?

What have I done with my life? I've wasted all of my 20s, just gone, wiped out for what? I've done nothing.

I've achieved nothing at all.

We find out why some people are changing their careers in the middle of their working lives.

My mum always used to say, leave a party when you're still having a good time,

and the same applies to careers, surely.

And why a midlife career change might not be as easy as you think.

We still suffer quite a lot from age discrimination.

So if a person tries to switch jobs or perhaps if they lose their job

and are looking for something else, it's actually quite difficult to get back into employment.

Switching your career can be one of the biggest changes you'll ever make in your life.

But it's something that many workers are facing or even choosing as our working lives get

longer and job security decreases. The job for life is becoming a thing of the past.

And anyway, who wants to keep

doing the same thing for 40 or 50 years? In a moment, we'll be asking how easy is it really

to change career, and how hard a decision that can be? But first, an inspirational story.

I always wanted to achieve something with my life. Like even being a kid, like, I always

had an ambition when I was little owning British Telecom. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I was

very money-orientated. It was all about acquiring wealth. And I used to think, I want to be a

millionaire by the time I'm 21 years old. John McAvoy has always been ambitious. Now he's a world record-breaking rower and a long-distance triathlete, but he started out on a very

different career path. We had a relatively normal childhood. I grew up in South East London Crystal

Palace, went to a Catholic primary school, just normal, really. When I got to about eight years old,

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