I just bought my first house last week. If you’re self-employed in Ireland, you need three years’ accounts before you can get a mortgage, so I’ve been obsessing about this for years. I knew I was gambling my chances of being able to buy a house when I left a relatively safe in-house job to set up Re:Work. 2020 is not the ideal year to specialise in building people teams, so I feel really relieved to scrape this house through finally.