I've been working since I was 13 years old, started with the paper rounds and graduated to stacking shelves at woollies, the chocolate biscuit isle was always a favourite shift, then got into the hospitality industry from waiter to bartender while studying at uni, then got into my profession and have been there ever since.

I tellya what if I win tatts I wouldn't NEVER work another day in my life.

At my age I would be very happy to shed that 9 to 5 ball and chain, getting rather sick of it to tell you the truth.

What about you...!!!???

red baron wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 2:22pm:


Engineer

Yeah..Engineers are good, we need more Engineers, they actually do something with their lives.

Valkie wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 3:12pm:


I agree you would have to do something otherwise you'll be in the Earth within 6 months...I've seen it.

I have some pet projects based on engineering that I would like to accomplish and try and make some money out of, travel definitely to Europe especially Greece, I've never been.

When I say never work again it doesn't mean becoming a couch potato, plus there's plenty to do around the house.

It would be lovely.....a person can dream can't he....!!

Ajax wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 3:48pm:



a friend of mine has been laid off from the mining company she worked for...shes very good yet is finding it difficult to find anew position...single and can go anywhere....its tough out there....if you have a job I would do my best to enjoy it while you have it...not much chance of winning any lottery  you could say you have won it anyway with a good job....

if I won the lottery I would give most of it away....we cant buy good health and wellbeing.... and we cant take all our money or toys with us..

so may as well share and make as many others as happy as possible..whilst you have the time.

Ajax wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 3:41pm:



F'n old front bottom***************************************  ... they love a laugh but 

You are quite lucky to have a job in your chosen field Ajax. Not to say you didn't work for it of course.

My advice isn't to dream about escape, but instead try to furnish your prison cell 
Not with material possessions, but with personal achievements.

9 to 5 can feel like a grind because along the way you aren't living your life. You're a slave to your routine.
It probably reads something like this: Wake up, go to work,
come home and unwind, dinner, sleep, repeat.

It's very hard to do this but somewhere between work and rest you need to do something that you feel is constructive.

Yes it takes effort, which is sapped by your work during the day. Yes it might mean waking up earlier before work.
Yes there are only 24 hours in the day and you'll have to squeeze every last drop out of them.

If you work on something that you can progress toward over time, for just an hour a day, eventually
you will be building something greater than yourself

This is essential. Some have a hobby for restoring cars, others workout at the gym.
You need something to devote yourself to that isn't your job.

We can dream, but most of us won't have a job that satisfies us completely, that is we do it just for the money.
But as humans we still search for that sense of satisfaction.

Ajax wrote on Apr 24^th, 2016 at 4:08pm:

Engineers are the most varied pay group ever conceived: they aren't all einstein broseph!

Overseas they train harder because they are schooled harder from a younger age andthose trained here are only just, at the higher levels, deemed competent to even have a conversation!

Your batman suit must be fun when hallucinating on crack... although we all know how boring that is