It's a decision he made a few months ago, shortly after he had been made redundant at the age of 49 from his job as an audit manager.

She began her career with an international accounting firm where she served as an audit manager.

These included audit managers earning up to 140,000, senior geophysicists and petrophysicists commanding 100,000, through to 46,000 for power station engineers and part-time heating sales advisers earning 6,000.