Gina Broadhurst left school at 17 with no A-levels and started working her way up the career ladder. At the height of her corporate career, around the age of 44, she was earning £120,000 a year.
She is just one of many who now opt to avoid getting into thousands of pounds of student debt and work their way up the career ladder.
Now 50, Gina lives in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, with her husband Simon, 54, and two children, daughter Gen, 14, and son Sterling, 12.
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“I went to a very posh private school and I didn’t enjoy academic studies”, she says. “I didn’t have a lack of ability but I did have a lack of application. I didn’t enjoy school and, despite scraping through my GCSEs with little revision, quit before my A-levels.”
