Similar here, had been divorced for a year and hooked up with Mrs D mk11 for a few months, work was drying up cos of the recession, started doing a bit of p/t pub work where she was working, "could you do this for a living?" She asked, "yeah, I reckon" I replied, 6 months later with most of my cash spent on training courses etc I'm packing up the Transit and we're moving 350 miles to Cornwall to a live in all found job on half the money I'd been used to making ?
Just over two years later we we making good money, fancy cars, holidays clothes etc.
25 years later that's all gone lol, we