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An inspiring story from the Independent.
I envy this bloke. Long hours, but has acquired a quality of life doing what he loves. Started as a homebrewer too.
Here he is, fronting his bar (and look at that rack of beer engines); Master of all he surveys.
The Salutation Inn: Pub of the year owner admits he escaped London rat race
A former London business analyst yesterday proved that packing in the rat race, fleeing to the countryside and running a pub doesn’t always end in tears after his establishment in a tiny Gloucestershire village won the pub of the year award.
Peter Tiley, 31, quit a sensible “five-figure salary job” and spent nearly all his and his then girlfriend’s life savings on the lease of the The Salutation Inn in Ham near Berkeley.
He spent his first nine months as landlord “sleepwalking and having nightmares every night without fail,” because he was so worried he might ruin the pub.
Today, his gamble paid off as The Salutation was crowned pub of the year by the Campaign for Real Ale.
Mr Tiley, who took over the pub in April 2013, said: “You have to be passionate, but if you are really, really passionate about something, the chances are you will be good at it. I am doing 90-hour weeks, but it doesn’t feel like work.”
Mr Tiley said he was working as a business analyst at a Soho telecoms consultancy in 2011 when he started thinking that although he liked his work, “spending time in a wonderful old boozer talking rubbish with friends was the most fun thing ever”.
He said: “I started thinking about how I would look back on my life as an old man.”
Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/the-salutation-inn-pub-of-the-year-owner-admits-he-escaped-london-rat-race-10050158.html?origin=internalSearch
I envy this bloke. Long hours, but has acquired a quality of life doing what he loves. Started as a homebrewer too.
Here he is, fronting his bar (and look at that rack of beer engines); Master of all he surveys.
The Salutation Inn: Pub of the year owner admits he escaped London rat race
A former London business analyst yesterday proved that packing in the rat race, fleeing to the countryside and running a pub doesn’t always end in tears after his establishment in a tiny Gloucestershire village won the pub of the year award.
Peter Tiley, 31, quit a sensible “five-figure salary job” and spent nearly all his and his then girlfriend’s life savings on the lease of the The Salutation Inn in Ham near Berkeley.
He spent his first nine months as landlord “sleepwalking and having nightmares every night without fail,” because he was so worried he might ruin the pub.
Today, his gamble paid off as The Salutation was crowned pub of the year by the Campaign for Real Ale.
Mr Tiley, who took over the pub in April 2013, said: “You have to be passionate, but if you are really, really passionate about something, the chances are you will be good at it. I am doing 90-hour weeks, but it doesn’t feel like work.”
Mr Tiley said he was working as a business analyst at a Soho telecoms consultancy in 2011 when he started thinking that although he liked his work, “spending time in a wonderful old boozer talking rubbish with friends was the most fun thing ever”.
He said: “I started thinking about how I would look back on my life as an old man.”
Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/the-salutation-inn-pub-of-the-year-owner-admits-he-escaped-london-rat-race-10050158.html?origin=internalSearch