MapisM
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did life turn out the way you wanted????
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Jools_of_Top_Cat
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well if you have any hints on understanding men I would greatly appreciate them
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erm, to start with don't use hints, we don't get them. If you want something done ask, if you want to go out say "I want to go out". If you ask a straight question, expect a straight answer, don't get all sulky because your man did not respond with "well what would you like" etc.
Women have a real problem with this concept.
Tomorrows lesson will be on how women require support and men need to survive alone in the big world! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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well if you have any hints on understanding men I would greatly appreciate them
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erm, to start with don't use hints, we don't get them. If you want something done ask, if you want to go out say "I want to go out". If you ask a straight question, expect a straight answer, don't get all sulky because your man did not respond with "well what would you like" etc.
Women have a real problem with this concept.
Tomorrows lesson will be on how women require support and men need to survive alone in the big world! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
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stefan
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Never try to understand a woman, just love her!
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Dave_Snelson
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I wasn't sure what I wanted when I left school - and at nearly 48, I'm still not sure (except for the boat & family that is). Here is a cut down version of my career to date from 1st job to current. Does it get any more diverse than this??....
Atomic fuels (inc Hydrogen Bombs)
Oil refining
North Sea oil
Fixing photocopiers
Selling Life Insurance
Telecomms
Beat that...
Has it worked out? Yes, actually it has worked out better than I anticipated with a few very quirky twists of fate along the way. I'm reasonably comfortable financially, I have no debts or mortgages at all and evrything I own is mine.
Don't ask me how I got here, 'cos I haven't got a clue!!
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Atomic fuels (inc Hydrogen Bombs)
Oil refining
North Sea oil
Fixing photocopiers
Selling Life Insurance
Telecomms
Beat that...
Has it worked out? Yes, actually it has worked out better than I anticipated with a few very quirky twists of fate along the way. I'm reasonably comfortable financially, I have no debts or mortgages at all and evrything I own is mine.
Don't ask me how I got here, 'cos I haven't got a clue!!
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studgies
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Well.....
Planned to be an airline pilot and got on the BA Training scheme...well till I failed a medical due to a problem with my left eye so was left at 18 with no clue what I wanted to do so I went to uni to study Geology and astronomy. The career/life goes so far:
Inland Revenue for 3 month (pleawe don't hold it against me)
Foreign Office for 4 years working in IT then they moved me to finince YUCK!!
Brief career working in a garage to escape the Foreign Office
Last 7 years working for the NHS starting of in IT suport now working as a systems manager.
I still want to fly, have always been boat nuts and for some mad reason would love to buy a boat I can live on full time, for now got a place to live a silly enough car a half decent boat and someone to share it all with so life is not all bad.
For the future.......get the boat to live on and move it to the west coast of Scotland once I have installed a whacking great heater!
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Planned to be an airline pilot and got on the BA Training scheme...well till I failed a medical due to a problem with my left eye so was left at 18 with no clue what I wanted to do so I went to uni to study Geology and astronomy. The career/life goes so far:
Inland Revenue for 3 month (pleawe don't hold it against me)
Foreign Office for 4 years working in IT then they moved me to finince YUCK!!
Brief career working in a garage to escape the Foreign Office
Last 7 years working for the NHS starting of in IT suport now working as a systems manager.
I still want to fly, have always been boat nuts and for some mad reason would love to buy a boat I can live on full time, for now got a place to live a silly enough car a half decent boat and someone to share it all with so life is not all bad.
For the future.......get the boat to live on and move it to the west coast of Scotland once I have installed a whacking great heater!
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Cymraeg
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All this reminds me of a quote on a picture which hangs, of all places, in the bathroom : "All animals, except man, know that the ultimate objective of life is to enjoy it". I think I'm starting to now, got an established business and a bit of cash spare, got out of where I didn't want to live and into the place I did, and have learnt about boating, although have yet to get a boat of my own. A slightly different slant on Julie's question : have you enjoyed getting where you are now?
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PhilF
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okay then I'll play
Grocery store
Music Business
Dress Factory (was desparate)
Music Business
Video Shops
Life Assurance
Always wanted to be a rock star, still do
Got every thing else I want and need
This is becoming an agony Aunt forum, quite cool really
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Grocery store
Music Business
Dress Factory (was desparate)
Music Business
Video Shops
Life Assurance
Always wanted to be a rock star, still do
Got every thing else I want and need
This is becoming an agony Aunt forum, quite cool really
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Sunnyseeker
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I didn't want and still dont want life to turn out any particular way, just take each day as it comes. To plan might limit what you can do or achieve.
One material thing I always wanted from teenage school days was a Laverda Jota, which I now have so thats it.
Or as someone once said "Oh ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired feast them upon the wideness of the sea"
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One material thing I always wanted from teenage school days was a Laverda Jota, which I now have so thats it.
Or as someone once said "Oh ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired feast them upon the wideness of the sea"
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BarryH
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"did life turn out the way you wanted???? "..................No
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boatone
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Dunno yet....still got a few years to go (hopefully!)
Spent a few days boiling beetroots...that certainly wasnt in the passage plan ! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
I had planned to be a millionaire by the time I was 50...seem to be running a biit behind schedule but who knows..........
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Spent a few days boiling beetroots...that certainly wasnt in the passage plan ! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
I had planned to be a millionaire by the time I was 50...seem to be running a biit behind schedule but who knows..........
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DogStar
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In short, no. But then I'm glad, as who would have known at sixteen how much fun it would be..selling newspapers, fixing cars, pruning raspberry bushes (with the S.A.S. - Southgate Agricultural Services, before you wonder.. est. at 1845.. or quarter to seven), concrete finishing, shopfitting, being a back street mechanic, starting a picture framing business, working as a photographer for some of the Lads mags back in the 90's, starting a graphic design agency, being in interactive TV during the dotcom boom (a lesson in how to spend as much as possible, whilst having nothing left to show for it - a bit like Brewsters Millions), or growing frowned upon herbiage.
The only jobs that I have had that I hated were selling rendering to pensioners and being a shop assistant in a health food shop in Warren St. I only did these for a total of two days though.
I could never have predicted the way my life would go, and I'm eternally grateful for that. I'm still doing the graphic design, but it bores me rigid now. I certainly had never even heard of anyone living on a boat, so in that respect life has turned out far better than I hoped!
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The only jobs that I have had that I hated were selling rendering to pensioners and being a shop assistant in a health food shop in Warren St. I only did these for a total of two days though.
I could never have predicted the way my life would go, and I'm eternally grateful for that. I'm still doing the graphic design, but it bores me rigid now. I certainly had never even heard of anyone living on a boat, so in that respect life has turned out far better than I hoped!
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Andrew_Fanner
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I've always wanted to be a rich layabout. I'm now halfway along that planned course...
Otherwise
Rolls Royce fiddling with jet engines. Harriers and Concorde, fantastic time
Inland Revenue
Tax Consultancy
IT for Benefits Agency
IT for the NHS
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Otherwise
Rolls Royce fiddling with jet engines. Harriers and Concorde, fantastic time
Inland Revenue
Tax Consultancy
IT for Benefits Agency
IT for the NHS
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Nat
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1 Worked on dads farm
2 Served engineering apprenticeship
3 Plant fitter
4 went into plastic recycling
5 Got into Scaffolding recycling
4 Entered Motor trade
5 Mot tester
6 Car sales
7 Recovery operator
8 Now still in Mot garage & recovery business but starting to spend more leisure time with view to retiring to Spain as perminant live aboard in next year or so.
Never been happier playing with boats. There's something about the lifestyle that I cant put into words. Regrets. If I had the money I spent living like a playboy when I was younger I could have done this 10 years ago
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2 Served engineering apprenticeship
3 Plant fitter
4 went into plastic recycling
5 Got into Scaffolding recycling
4 Entered Motor trade
5 Mot tester
6 Car sales
7 Recovery operator
8 Now still in Mot garage & recovery business but starting to spend more leisure time with view to retiring to Spain as perminant live aboard in next year or so.
Never been happier playing with boats. There's something about the lifestyle that I cant put into words. Regrets. If I had the money I spent living like a playboy when I was younger I could have done this 10 years ago
............Nat
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duncan
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taking the key from 'life' and 'wanted' I am still married, have wonderfull kids and can just about afford to to indulge my whim's from time to time (ie I have a lot of credit cards).
I can't do or buy all and everything I could want - few can - but as long as I can go out on the water in something I own the 'want' is satisfied.
As many I have had a diverse range of employments from pilot to labouring in a brickworks, insurance sales to casinos...........and they were all fun in their own way!
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I can't do or buy all and everything I could want - few can - but as long as I can go out on the water in something I own the 'want' is satisfied.
As many I have had a diverse range of employments from pilot to labouring in a brickworks, insurance sales to casinos...........and they were all fun in their own way!
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ccscott49
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Pretty much done all the things I wanted to, by this age, still got lots to do and may not achieve it, but what the hell! I dont owe anybody anything, healthy and have my own boat, sailing where I want, who could ask for more, (well a couple of things, but they are private) not me anyway.
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ccscott49
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Easy, just keep us fed watered and laid, no problems! That would do for me anyway! You'd have to come sailing aswell.
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mainshiptom
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yes, You just have to be selfish ! and do it every day ,
Israeli navy, marine unit 4 years
colleage it 3 years
travling 1 year
work for a bakery 1 week
manage a rock band 3-6 month , no clear memory of this stage,
work for NOP 18 months
work for IPC .. well I am still here !
Always wanted to be close to water and have a boat , Tick
boat size larger then age in feet Tick
earn annually more then age Tick
Have a good pension Tick
Good health Tick so far !
Good sex life ick
well I am still smiling
Tom
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Israeli navy, marine unit 4 years
colleage it 3 years
travling 1 year
work for a bakery 1 week
manage a rock band 3-6 month , no clear memory of this stage,
work for NOP 18 months
work for IPC .. well I am still here !
Always wanted to be close to water and have a boat , Tick
boat size larger then age in feet Tick
earn annually more then age Tick
Have a good pension Tick
Good health Tick so far !
Good sex life ick
well I am still smiling
Tom
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Crewgirl
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Kids by proxy eh? Ah... without wishing to sound soppy, he's a "Nice Guy" (that should wind him up a bi!).
Life? Well - two children, one soon-to-be ex husband, mucked up my school life (wanted to be a ballerina - but hey, that's no job for a lady - oh, am I a lady then?). Did sec/PA work, had the two delightful children, then wondered if I should study and catch up.
So now I'm part time psychologist (half-trained!) to boaty person on here <g>, general dogsbody around the house and haven't even got the time to clear up the family mess due to Open Uni pressures with report writing and exam looming! I love life <g>
OK, can I go out on the water now?
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Life? Well - two children, one soon-to-be ex husband, mucked up my school life (wanted to be a ballerina - but hey, that's no job for a lady - oh, am I a lady then?). Did sec/PA work, had the two delightful children, then wondered if I should study and catch up.
So now I'm part time psychologist (half-trained!) to boaty person on here <g>, general dogsbody around the house and haven't even got the time to clear up the family mess due to Open Uni pressures with report writing and exam looming! I love life <g>
OK, can I go out on the water now?
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jon_bailey
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From this I am surprised that Brendan gets a look in, unless he is part of your practical exam.
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Is it what I expected? Not exactly, Plan A was to be a pilot, but was rejected by RAF for having past history of hayfever. Rejected the idea of civil aviation, and Plan B was to take over the world one burger at a time, which led to the following:
Assistant manager in failed burger shop,
Camera sales (note, I was REALLY bad at this. I apologise to all my customers...),
Drove a 7.5 tonner (slightly better at this, apart from the cement mixer),
Joined a large blue IT company,
Management Buyout to another company,
Sold off to yet another...
...And aquired by company No 4.
Being "onsite" has included Switzerland, Beijing, Jersey, and Slough.
Met SWMBO somewhere along the way, and now have mini-SWMBO (3mths).
None of this was planned, it has been a "career by default", and knowing the IT industry, I would be be very surprised if the last entry is ever "retired happily from nice cuddly IT company at age 60".
dv.
Assistant manager in failed burger shop,
Camera sales (note, I was REALLY bad at this. I apologise to all my customers...),
Drove a 7.5 tonner (slightly better at this, apart from the cement mixer),
Joined a large blue IT company,
Management Buyout to another company,
Sold off to yet another...
...And aquired by company No 4.
Being "onsite" has included Switzerland, Beijing, Jersey, and Slough.
Met SWMBO somewhere along the way, and now have mini-SWMBO (3mths).
None of this was planned, it has been a "career by default", and knowing the IT industry, I would be be very surprised if the last entry is ever "retired happily from nice cuddly IT company at age 60".
dv.