I think being a qualified teacher helps with the kudos too, that also explains why JP makes me cringe.

Nice analogy with the car.

I quit full time teaching in August on the back of my resource sales/ ad revenue, took about 4 years to get there. Then the ad revenue collapse, thankfully my revision webinar back up plan (and a second job doing teacher training I hadn't anticipated) have more than made up the short fall).

What I really want to do however is just find a field somewhere, put up a yurt and do Permaculture, however, there's an example of where EVERYBODY who does that is trying to make money out of teaching everyone else how to do it, so there's no real money it. And I'm sure you know just how difficult it is to do that sort of thing in England.