As you move through life, especially times of struggle and hardship, certain things stick in your mind. One of those things for me is when I was working as a telephone based mortgage broker for MoneySupermarket.com.

The UK was in the grip of a financial crisis and housing market crash and just before it happened (and it happened fast), I’d bought a house at peak value and borrowed more than the value of the house to raise money to buy 2 investment properties.

Then I split up with the girl who I did this with, followed by the mortgage industry being crushed resulting in my income dropping to a third of what it was in conjunction with the housing market crashing and my house losing about £30k.

I was trapped and I was laid off from about 3 jobs and about to fall behind on my mortgage payments and there were NO mortgage jobs anywhere… but then MoneySupermarket advertised for mortgage broker position.… ... Continue Reading