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Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last. -
Originally posted by Zigenare View PostRunning away to Ireland, now there's failure for you.
get a room you two!Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Good question! My time since joining here has absolutely flown - I joined because I'd run out of promotion at the tiny consultancy I was working at and didn't fancy a corporate career again. Part of the reason I'm so utterly bitter about the current state and attack on contracting is because I've had more fun (job wise) in 6 years of contracting than I did in the preceding 10 years as a permie. I love contracting, I love consulting, I love the lifestyle, I love the people and I'll be very very sad if I have to go permie again.
Since joining:
- Went contracting (obviously)
- Got a house
- Went back perm for a year (mistake, and I knew it from Day 1!)
- Renovated the house
- Had a child!
- Two sets of open heart surgery with said child - the second saw me take 6 weeks off from a very understanding client
- Got a client to pay me to go to Australia business class
- Got my pilots licence
- Did a few motorbike trips to France
- Loads and loads of clients and projects. Some better than others, but overall just a cracking experience and a cracking few years
- Did a 12 month stint in London, on a decent rate, with a cracking customer. Hard being away from home as we'd just had the little one - but as work goes it's probably my best ever year. Had so much fun, rinsed my expenses, drank way way too much and met some great people
- Wrote a little bit of Plan B software. Somehow sold licenses to a Biiiiig organisation you've definitely heard of for a cool £20-odd k
- I've gotten through 6 cars in that time!
- No super exciting holidays due to houses and kids, but did manage one sun holiday and a cruise in 2015 just before we got the house - that was a good year!
- Met loads of you lot- think I've only missed 1x Christmas meet since joining, plus a few down in London at the Counting House
- Got drunker than I've been in at least 10 years with NorthernLad, culminating in an all-nighter. There are lots of bits of that night I wish I didn't remember, and many that I don't.
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Originally posted by vetran View Postget a room you two!Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.Comment
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Where did those 14 years go?
Ditched the German Porn Star
Saved my marriage
Wrote and tested software for loads of military and commercial aircraft
Fell in love with Italy
Completed an OU degree
Completed an OU Masters
Won two OU essay competitions
Had a paper on Latin poetry published
Found Keanu Reeves' wallet in Rome
Developed Prostate Cancer
Had radical prostatectomy - now in long term remission, but devastating side effects
Renal failure
Dialysis
Transplant - now pissing like an horse
Moved house twice
Became a grandad, best thing ever, can be a little boy again.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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Apaprently I'm coming up on 13 years here, good grief. IIRC I joined CUK just as I was setting up my Ltd, having made the jump (or been pushed) into full-time working for myself. In fact I assume I came across CUK looking for advice and was told to ask my accountant.
So I suppose I've lived through the financial crisis, QE and subsequent runaway inflation.
4 house moves from rough ex-council estate through modern town-houses to a country house.
Still married, still no kids.
Nearly moved to USA.
Had LASIK.
Nearly bought a property in Scandinavia.
Lost grand-dad and both parents in a 3-year period (hence most recent house change situation).
Tried to start my own company, never got the traction despite government assistance.
Bought a holiday let which turned out to have a murderer underneath with a cellar of horrors.
Nearly got in at ground floor on a new startup (twice).
Bought a house for some freinds to live in.
Bounced between the same couple of clients for 90% of my work.Last edited by d000hg; 23 September 2020, 12:50.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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14 years here. Same old, same old. Unusually for me, still married to the same woman....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post14 years here. Same old, same old. Unusually for me, still married to the same woman."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by Zigenare View PostRunning away to Ireland, now there's failure for you.
Whereas antisemitism is a sign of a failed individual lashing out at others.Comment
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