A MUM pulled her son out of school when he was just 14 so he could pursue his business dream – and now the business has made £3.6million., effectively meaning, as Tara, 50, says, he was “bright, at the top end of learning ability, but not in the way that school teaches it. So he struggled with exams and with comprehension, which is mainly what school is about.”
Tara said: “I went for the weekend, met Simon, and we moved in together two weeks later. We’ve been together ever since.”, the credit-checking firm, where she spent three years learning about business “through osmosis” as she sat in on meetings with the top team. That job though meant long hours and frequent travel, with Tara often being away three night a week, which she and Simon juggled alongside his shifts as an IT worker.
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