‘I quit my teaching career to become an artist’

Safiyyah Choycha, 31, on how her spending has changed since she set up her own businessA few years ago I quit my teaching career to become an artist. I felt under a lot of pressure as a teacher. I joined the profession after my degree in textile design, partly because my dad was a teacher and I felt it was the most obvious career for me, but I also felt it would give me security. At the beginning I loved being a teacher: there was an element of creativity and flexibility to do what you wanted in