OLLY Hiscocks told his parents they should sit down, for he had Something To Tell Them. He was in his twenties and working at a GP surgery at the time, having graduated in neuroscience from Manchester and secured a place to study postgraduate medicine at Bart’s to become a doctor — he’d been mulling neurosurgery or general practice as a specialism.
“But I’d changed my mind, so had a memorable conversation with my parents: ‘Mum, Dad — I don’t want to be a doctor, I want to sell olives!’ My parents kept asking if I was sure..”
