Property News · February 17, 2018

‘I spend £10,000 a year and most weekends on car racing’


IT consultant Steve Norton on how he lives a simple life in order to focus on his hobbyI’d always had a fantasy about racing cars, but it’s a hobby that needs time and money, neither of which I had enough of until five years ago. Then two random things happened that pitched me onto the track. I’d been working for Lancashire police in IT development on £32,000 a year when budget cuts meant that I was moved to maintenance programming and went from playing with shiny new gadgets to fixing people’s viruses all day.That didn’t do it for me, so I resigned and set up as a freelance IT consultant. It’s a hard schedule – 12- to 13-hour days five days a week – but it’s doubled my earnings to £60,000 to £70,000 a year. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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