Charlotte1
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The job she had in the publishing world was a secretarial job but the skills needed by a secretary now are very different to those needed in 1986. Then she needed typing, filing and shorthand rather than full ability with a word processor, etc. She simply doesn't have the training or experience to get a job like that now.
No publishing house would employ someone who hasn't been in the field for over 25 years when they can get a young 18 years old and train them to do it their way.
The last job Sarah had before she married was as a book editor for a publishing house that specialised in art books. She was far more than a secretary, although that's what she started her working life as. She worked her way up to quite a responsible position, the last book she edited before her marriage was one on the Palace at Westminister, infact she continued to work on it after she was engaged (until the book was finished) I do agree however that, having a responsible job in publishing, after 25 years of not working in that field isn't exactly realistic. Nowadays a university English literature graduate would probably be employed instead.
There's quite a lot of publicity from people aged over 50 as to the difficulty of getting a new job once they become unemployed. The world of employment is not screaming out for over 50s, employers want younger people who they believe will give them 30 years of a working life, rather than an over 50 sliding down to retirement.
but she isn't the first or the last person to declare bankruptcy and then continued in her lifestyle.
Sarah has never declared bankruptcy, not now nor in the past. While she has been heavily in debt, on both occasions she has worked to repay her creditors, the easy option would have been to declare bankruptcy and her creditors would have received nothing or very little. She worked (yes, horror of horrors in the media where she was able to earn large sums of money) and repay her creditors. The lifestyle that she's managing to live now, isn't necessarily due to her spending as she has wealthy friends. Last year she holidayed on Richard Branson's private island in the Carribean as he invited her. She flew there in a private jet, another wealthy friend gave her the jet to fly to Nekker. The chalet she stays in Verbier to go skiing is given to her by her exboyfriend Paddy McNally, she doesn't pay for it. While it's easy to criticise, Sarah's reality is that she lives and moves around wealthy people, some of them help her.