{"id":80222,"date":"2018-02-17T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-spend-10000-a-year-and-most-weekends-on-car-racing\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T07:02:50","slug":"i-spend-10000-a-year-and-most-weekends-on-car-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-spend-10000-a-year-and-most-weekends-on-car-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I spend \u00a310,000 a year and most weekends on car racing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIT consultant Steve Norton on how he lives a simple life in order to focus on his hobbyI\u2019d always had a fantasy about racing cars, but it\u2019s 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\u2019d been working for Lancashire police in IT development on \u00a332,000 a year when budget cuts meant that I was moved to maintenance programming and went from playing\u00a0with shiny new gadgets to fixing people\u2019s viruses all\u00a0day.That didn\u2019t do it for me, so I resigned and set up as a freelance IT consultant. It\u2019s a hard schedule \u2013 12- to 13-hour days five days a week \u2013 but it\u2019s doubled my earnings to \u00a360,000 to \u00a370,000 a year. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/feb\/17\/car-racing-cost-motors\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018I spend \u00a310,000 a year and most weekends on car racing\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; IT consultant Steve Norton on how he lives a simple life in order to focus&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-kRU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24891,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/nakheel-appoints-ae7-as-consultant-on-deira-islands-boulevard\/","url_meta":{"origin":80222,"position":0},"title":"Nakheel appoints AE7 as consultant on Deira Islands Boulevard","date":"September 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Nakheel has appointed consultant AE7 to spearhead construction of a Dh5 billion, 20-tower development at Deira Islands in Dubai.The developer said that the consultant would oversee the design, engineering and construction supervision of its Deira Islands Boulevard project.It includes 16 blocks of flats, two hotels and two serviced apartment\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11998,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-do-i-become-a-racing-car-driver\/","url_meta":{"origin":80222,"position":1},"title":"How do I become \u2026 a racing car driver","date":"June 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It's a long and expensive road to becoming a professional \u2013 and dangerous too. 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