I first started my own company in 1990 after leaving a secure job and this was in a "recession" I gave it up in 2002 when the jobs became few and far between, but I had 12 good years in what I liked doing, I then took a job that I do not like but it pays the bills and keeps the wife reasonably happy, I will pick and choose the shows I go to but more than that I will SAVE to go to the ones I want to, SPTA, Bunker Bash, War and Peace, Military MAyhem (got to go there) Lingfield, and anymore that I can afford at the time, I know it is easy to say but why let circumstances spoil what you enjoy, it does not have to be that expensive providing you plan for what you want to do and in time.