“After the contract for the job I was doing ended I suddenly found myself retired at 59. A quick look at my bank balance convinced me I couldn’t stop working completely – and anyway I just didn’t feel old enough.”
Liz Friedrich, now 63, whose garden design business is profiled in Women & Home magazine.
Having already done a design course and been a keen gardener, Liz started in a small way working for friends of friends. But AFTER she had already completed several projects for paying customers she decided she needed more business expertise.
So she enrolled on PRIME partner London Metropolitan University’s Forward at 50 course. (There’s a new London Met course aimed at women setting up health and care businesses just starting up).
Liz’s new business acumen is paying off with a business venture based on feedback she was getting from her customers.
Many of her garden design clients were asking for gorgeous gardens that wouldn’t require them to do any work. Liz’s initial reaction was to patiently explain that that was just not possible. But they still kept asking.
So she’s now launching a Plant Box service with a fellow garden designer. They will sell fully-planted up containers for balconies and patios – and then come round and replant them in the spring and autumn.
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