Nice, sometimes I wish I'd been born 100yrs ago and had an honest living in the fields or in a skilled trade and not the rat race we currently live in.I was an apprentice motor cycle mechanic. Times change and 73 years ago that was not as unusual as you seem to think. Being shortly after WW2 with a desperate shortage of all motor vehicles we supplemented with selling, fitting and servicing assist motors for bicycles, starting my long term interest in that subject.
Did you have to walk 6miles every day to school and back in the rain and snow in shorts too? ;-)And as for working at an early age, at 11 years old I had three part time jobs and was working and schooling a 13 hour day Mondays to Friday and 11 hours Saturday, paying half of my earnings to my parents to help with my keep in those impoverished times.
You bought 6 cars in 33 yrs, that's nothing, I wrote off 3 cars in 16months, a beamer, S series and E series (nicest merc I ever owned, a E350i with paddles on wheel for shifts).Of course I didn't have the time to be either a vandal or a hooligan, but I did know the value of working hard and successfully. So much so that I retired just into my fifties and have enjoyed 33 years of affluent retirement so far, buying and owning six new cars during that time and currently with a £30K electric car.
Lol, you're getting a bit 'loadsamoney' and my my wallet is bigger than yours. I run a consultancy that's turned 5 figures for 15+yrs as well as owning a small but successful Property Management Company.Have you been or will you be as successful?
There's been a no smacking ban in Scotland for yrs now, can't believe it's not UK wide.No it doesn't. It teaches emotional detachment, withdrawal, disconnection and a whole load of other emotional issues. I'm not totally anti smacking, but beating (especially for the sake of it) is harmful and counter productive. You risk passing your issues on to the next generation.
No, between 1.2 and 1.9 miles at three different school levels, but the 1.9 miles I had to run twice each lunch hour to somehow fit in the two way journey and midday dinner. In those very different 1940s days mothers like mine felt inferior if their kids had a school lunch, a sort of social failure, so insisted on cooking a main midday meal.Did you have to walk 6miles every day to school and back in the rain and snow in shorts too? ;-)
I'm pleased to learn you have been successful and hope it continues, despite seemingly every effort by our governments to make us fail. But there's no winners. I've been an environmentalist for almost all my life, from many decades before it became fashionable, wishing we weren't forced to live the lives we do, progressively destroying all around us. Eventually we will all lose.I run a consultancy that's turned 5 figures for 15+yrs as well as owning a small but successful Property Management Company.
Do I win ;-)
Interesting and well done you. I turn 50 in August, but sadly I don't think I'll be able to retire just yet. However, as a major life plus, I did recently redeem my mortgage, so now 100% own the house I live in.I was an apprentice motor cycle mechanic. Times change and 73 years ago that was not as unusual as you seem to think. Being shortly after WW2 with a desperate shortage of all motor vehicles we supplemented with selling, fitting and servicing assist motors for bicycles, starting my long term interest in that subject.
And as for working at an early age, at 11 years old I had three part time jobs and was working and schooling a 13 hour day Mondays to Friday and 11 hours Saturday, paying half of my earnings to my parents to help with my keep in those impoverished times.
Of course I didn't have the time to be either a vandal or a hooligan, but I did know the value of working hard and successfully. So much so that I retired just into my fifties and have enjoyed 33 years of affluent retirement so far, buying and owning six new cars during that time and currently with a £30K electric car.
Have you been or will you be as successful?
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good job the hole fiat money system and the stock market are going to crash big timeInteresting and well done you. I turn 50 in August, but sadly I don't think I'll be able to retire just yet. However, as a major life plus, I did recently redeem my mortgage, so now 100% own the house I live in.
Just the one car and the one e bike.
All due respect mate, but reading some of your posts on here I reckon you are full of **** and actually don't have the remotest clue about Economics.good job the hole fiat money system and the stock market are going to crash big time
Nobody sneeze! Sneezers get stitches!all the kids and 20 year olds i speak to are mostly brain dead brain washed tax slaves the new guy at the local shop cant even count coins like wtf
when i was 14 i was selling crack had blocks of it the size of house bricks it went that fast and i got paid way more than a just eat rider today
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i know where the shops are they dont pay no tax on that