I’m finding the rat-race fairly depressing at the moment, the constant travelling two and from work (two hours each way) is starting to get me down a little. Winter is coming and that means getting up in the dark and arriving back at home in the dark…  I guess we’d all like to escape from the humdrum and do something a little less mundane. However, once you get to a certain age you gather ‘anchors’ that stop you from just giving it all up, quitting the day job and escaping. Currently the big anchor that is weighing me down is the £200,000 mortgage outstanding on my house. Lately I’ve been thinking that one of the most important things that I can do right now is work towards paying that outstanding debt off as quickly as possible. I’m fairly sure that there aren’t any ‘real’ get rich quick schemes out there, so I’ll have to resort to wise financial investments and extra work on top of my day job to get myself into a positive financial position. There will be some risks involved, but in reality for the majority of us, there aren’t any quick fixes.