Andrew Rees: Diving into advice fintech - in the middle of a pandemic

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Head of development at The Verve Group Andrew Rees shares his insight on a career move during lockdown

At the end of 2019 after spending 27 years in the tech industry and having never had any real time off I decided to take some time away from work for myself. I couldn't have picked a worse time, could I? The start of a global pandemic. Working as a programmer for most of my career I always enjoyed coding and learning new tech, so spent some of that time off upskilling. Then in March, as I was starting to look for a new job, the pandemic struck in the UK and we were plunged into Lockdown 1.0. Who knew back then, 10 months later we would be in the middle of the third installment of this...

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