PHOTO: Ian Pattison turned his life around after almost being made redundant (Image: mirror.co.uk)
A man now owns a property empire worth £2.8m – and it is all thanks to his commute to work.
Ian Pattison, 46 used to get up at 5.15am every morning to get the train down to London for his job as a senior safety advisor.
However the dad-of-three’s work life was putting a strain on his marriage, and he never saw his young sons during the week.
According to Leicester Live he would end up spending five hours a day on the train and some days would not return home until 9pm.
And making matters even worse, Ian was also hit with the threat of redundancy and he developed diabetes.
He said: “No-one else has diabetes in my family, or any history of it, so it was a bit left-side. I think it was sitting down all day and not exercising that probably caused that.
“I didn’t have any time and I was fed up with the long hours. I’d spend the weekends just trying to recover and sleeping.
“When I was put at risk of redundancy, I realised my job was no safer than anyone else’s. No matter how much you’re earning, as soon as that stops you’ve got nothing to rely on. I needed to do something different that I could rely on.”
He then decided to make the most of his commute down to London by trying his hand at property investing.
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