Covid career changers: ‘Do something you love’

History shows when there's an economic shock, it's young people whose incomes and career prospects are the hardest hit and take the longest to recover.

When covid restrictions in Greater Manchester were tightened to the highest-level last year, freelance photographer Drew Forsyth didn't know if his business would survive.

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"I cut down on my expenses, I used my savings, I hadn't left the house in months, I stopped paying for my office, and it still wasn't enough," said Mr Forsyth who specialises in portraits for the arts and theatre sector.

"I went 11 weeks without any work, I don't know how I got through it."

As a freelancer, he was eligible for the government's Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grant, which helped him through the 'darkest months' of the pandemic.

As venues have re-opened this summer, his bookings are coming back but he knows the recovery will take time.

'It's been feast or famine. I'm still around 50% down year on year in terms of assignments,' he told the BBC.

Mr Forsyth believes it could take up to three years for his business to get back to pre-pandemic levels and while things are improving, he describes it as a 'painfully slow recovery.'

As a result he's diversified by setting up an online shop, expanding into video and changing his business model altogether.

"It was quite a dark time back in 2020, there wasn't that light at the end of the tunnel. But I am hopeful now, when I just wasn't before."

For others, successive lockdowns have led to reinvention. Cece Philips, a 24-year-old history graduate from London, quit her job at one of the world's biggest advertising companies to follow her artistic dreams.