Insight (1995)

Reinvention (2009x9)

: 21, 2009

How do youreinvent yourself in a time of recession? If you've been laid off or made redundant do you take this as an opportunity to do the job you’ve always wanted to do? And does what we do, chiefly define us as individuals? More and more people are being forced into questioning how they spend their working lives as the global recession bites. There are fundamentals like bills, mortgages and school fees to be paid, but even with these pressing issues, some people seize the opportunity to make dramatic changes in their working lives, no matter what the cost to their families. Tune in as we bring together writer and philosopher Alain de Botton author of new book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work'; people who've reinvented themselves with all the consequences and those who dream of doing it.