coozer
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:34 PM |
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POLL: Working, or not?
I notice a lot of peeps in the same boat as me, I am leaving today, redundant, because of Brown & Clowns inability to run a sweet shop.
Just wondering what the mix is on here and what your all doing about it?
Ta,
Steve
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Guinness
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:38 PM |
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You forgot an option in the poll:-
Working and poorer than you!
Cheers
Mike (self employed builder!)
Good luck with the job hunt and hopefully something will turn up soon, for you and all the lads on here in the same boat.
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blakep82
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:39 PM |
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working and poor here too.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:41 PM |
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We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of
things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses
people, not robots.
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Guinness
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of
things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses
people, not robots.
Need any foundations digging? LOL!
Mike
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mookaloid
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:46 PM |
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no self employed option? 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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omega0684
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:51 PM |
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you should have put
unemployed and not driving due to lack of funds to put fuel in the car! 
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 12:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of
things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses
people, not robots.
Need any foundations digging? LOL!
Mike
Well how good are you at holding your breath?
their offshore 
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:11 PM |
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im working but sitting on a big student overdraft and loan makes me almost definitely poorer than you.
But with more disposable income
Craig
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imp paul
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:22 PM |
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now no work its pants car trade is dead 
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:23 PM |
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so far its 80% working, not too bad really
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Charlie_Zetec
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:27 PM |
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I thought I'd put working down, but as for the ritcher than thou statement.... I've just bought a house so am technically poor for the
next 30 years.
Just trying to buy all the bits I need for my build before the mortgage takes over soon!
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!
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alistairolsen
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:29 PM |
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Working, new job straight out of uni. Loan, overdraft and lack of a summer holiday isnt good, but Im thankful to actually have a job!
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Chippy
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:38 PM |
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Another heading might have been........ "Retired on a fixed, (though liveable), income, still driving and still putting in go juice"
Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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wilkingj
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:52 PM |
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I'm Working.
My goal is to stay employed until at least Sept 9th 2009.
Then I will have completed 40 years in the same company and get my Crystal Clock. (Oh GOD.... am I SAD or what!)
However, the intention is to remain employed for at least three more years as I now have two sons at uni.
The Viento is not getting driven enough, and with a pending abdominal operation scheduled for September, it looks like I wont be driving anything much
for a while.
(I have split me guts - ie a Hernia)
OK so its... In Work, but not a lot of spare cash to have fun with.
Just trying to ride out the storm of life!
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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Flamez
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 01:58 PM |
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What about retired.....
my build mac1motorsports
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Flamez
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 02:09 PM |
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What about retired.....
my build mac1motorsports
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Andy W
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 02:35 PM |
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Getting finished on the 30th October, after 20 years.
Andy
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r1_pete
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 02:40 PM |
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Wish they'd let me go, but 30 years service, civil service T's and C's, relatively high salary, I'm just too expensive to make
redundo.
Maybe next year.
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owelly
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 02:42 PM |
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I'm working. Been there since leaving school (almost) 20 years ago and had it not been for the dire economic climate/industry in general,
I'd have left at the end of last year when I realised the gaffer was on my back all the time.
I'm bemused how the unemployed (and never have held a job done) folks who I went to school with, seem to have new cars and 60" plasma
screens where's I'm scraping my pennies together to buy shoes for my kids to share.....
Actually, for the first time in my life I'm not skint. I will be when I finally sell my house and buy another house with a huge mortgage!!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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MautoK
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 03:25 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Flamez
What about retired.....
+1
He's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling that when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen. (OUATITW/Cheyenne)
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GrumpyOne
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 03:40 PM |
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I'm sitting in Amsterdam airport on my way home after three weeks away. Home for two days then away for another month.
We (580 of us) were told today that the project is being cut short and we are all being made redundant in October. It's my birthday tomorrow and
I pick up my Viento chassis on Saturday. I am so tempted to tell them to stick their job and stay home building my car.
Any jobs going Mr Whippy
My wife is very understanding, she understands that if I am in the garage I am not in the house annoying her.
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richardh
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 04:06 PM |
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unempoyed, running out of cash but can just about hold on for a bit longer
Time for a change!
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Mr G
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 04:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
We’ve never been more busy in the windfarm business tbh we can’t keep up with the workload. If I were you I’d look at the renewable energy side of
things, money is just pouring into it, some of it on a truly mind boggling scale, puts ship & car building to shame and most of it actually uses
people, not robots.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/28/vestas-wind-turbine-factory-close
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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maartenromijn
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| posted on 30/7/09 at 04:37 PM |
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Working, but not time left to fix the f@#$#$% car!
BLOG: http://thunderroad-super7.blogspot.com/
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