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Originally posted by covbob View PostSledges selling well at this time of year?Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI chucked it in in October and became a full time Amazon seller, making around £10k a month, which is fine by me.Comment
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Originally posted by rootsnall View PostIf you can put up with the tedium there are not many cushier numbers than IT
It is *hard* graft. The thought of waking up every Monday morning and doing that tulip all day AND putting up with all the joys of public facing customers (If you think agents are bad, speak to a self employed tradesman!). No thanks, to say the least. I renovated the entire house a few years ago and the electrical was easily the least fun bit - chasing out 1930s brick everywhere, just absolutely grim!
I do agree with the thrust of the thread, though - I'm always keeping an eye on an out, and I certainly don't intend to be doing this at 67 - but my hope is to be doing something vocational as a paying hobby, not grafting it out on building sites!Last edited by vwdan; 7 July 2020, 11:18.Comment
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostI think there's a few on here with a rose tinted glasses view of "trades". I'm massively into my DIY and I'm just coming up to plastering and second fix on a 90% DIY extension. I knocked down the old, dug foundations, poured the concrete, built the footings and some of the block work (That's the point I got in some pro help to get up to the roof), built the roof and have just finished up all the first fix.
It is *hard* graft. The thought of waking up every Monday morning and doing that tulip all day AND putting up with all the joys of public facing customers (If you think agents are bad, speak to a self employed tradesman!). No thanks, to say the least. I renovated the entire house a few years ago and the electrical was easily the least fun bit - chasing out 1930s brick everywhere, just absolutely grim!
I do agree with the thrust of the thread, though - I'm always keeping an eye on an out, and I certainly don't intend to be doing this at 67 - but my hope is to be doing something vocational as a paying hobby, not grafting it out on building sites!Comment
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Originally posted by mjcp View PostAlways wanted to be a pilot. got someway down the route in 2006 with a cadet program for a major. That imploded with the 07/08 fiscal crash so reverted back to IT and later contracting.
By the time things had recovered, cadet programs were long gone and I couldn't justify the switch; £100K training, loss of income while training and dire pay rates for low hours crew...
With hindsight, ducked a bullet!
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Feel sorry for those who spent north of 100k on training to now be on the dole.Comment
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Politician?
There's a lot on here who produce hot air while saying nothing. Could be a simple move from MF to MP.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by mallisarealperson View PostAirline industry in terrible shape. However I reckon there will be a growth in business jets. Where more people seek to move around without the mass transit. But wages for those pilots will be rubbish. And maybe more individuals will look to fly themselves.
Feel sorry for those who spent north of 100k on training to now be on the dole.
He's cap in hand on Linked in these days...Comment
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