`I spend £10,000 a year and most weekends on car racing´
(The Guardian Money News)

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...