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Article: Designs for a better life; Quitting the rat race to do what you love for a living is everyone's dream. Here Sarah Stewart-Smith finds out how four designers left their successful - but unfulfilling - jobs and got creative with their careers.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Byline: SARAH STEWART-SMITH
THE TV PRODUCER WHO WENT TO POT
Emma Johnstone, left, discovered pottery at the age of nine, when asthma stopped her taking part in PE lessons: 'My teacher shuffled me into a classroom with a lump of clay.' After school she worked for an insurance firm and a television production company. Then, in her 20s, Emma decided to join an evening class to build on her work with clay. 'I threw my first pot at the age of 24,' she says. 'A friend saw one of my pieces and thought that I could sell it.
1 didn't believe I could make a living doing something 1 loved; 1 saw throwing pots as a hobby. But now there was this new idea ...
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