Ok, I'm really interested in hearing about how you did it. What you do for a living?
No rocket science. There's two part of me, one is entrepreneurial and one is hard grafting and methodical. The first one I failed at miserably, but I am still trying and never give up, the second one exceeded my expectations.
I was at Uni, everyone was dreaming about what they wanted to do...I knew no matter what job I do I will get bored of it and might even hate it, but I like earning a decent packet, did my research and based on my skills I knew a career in the City is the way to go, the pay there was at time ridiculous...and seriously it is, some people from the outside just don't realise how much some people are getting paid to do a day job. Anyway, I'm not good at maths but I have a kick ass memory and logical view to problems...so I went into Law, then creeped into financials services Compliance/Legal and pretty much stuck to one line of work and subject from day one.
One thing I am good at is selling myself and closing gaps in m CV/ability to move up to the next job at the next bigger company....but like anything else a bit of luck helps. 2008 crisis fucked me over in some ways (my buy to lets got fucked) BUT it didn't take long for me to realise it was a mixed blessing, the financial scandals meant demand for my job sky rocketed, we were needed to fix things when the regulators were all over everyone....I joined a big consultancy company and contracted for them on all their projects, which meant within 4/5 years I worked at pretty much just about every big Bank in the city charging a hefty daily rate and paying a lot less tax as I invoiced from a LTD company and claimed expenses...etc. 6mths here 6moths there...all on specific projects, this beefed up my CV then consolidated this into one role when the right opportunity (salary and bonus) came along.