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KarrieBee

TREVORCOLMAN wrote: »

And others did not loaf at Uni but got a job at 16.

I'm not suggesting that it is better to go to University, my point is that it is an issue when it comes to finance and disposable income for savings for many of my generation.

Although if my husband and I had not attended university we would not be able to work in the professions we do and thus not able to save as much money for a deposit, a degree is certainly not a magic formula for a better job or higher income. I agree that many people would be better going to work at 16 or 18 but if you wish to have a professional career in many cases a degree is essential.

Please don't imply however you are harder working or a better individual simply because you chose not to go on to higher education, it is not pertinent to the thread really is it?

Peelerfart

KarrieBee wrote: »

Please don't imply however you are harder working or a better individual simply because you chose not to go on to higher education, it is not pertinent to the thread really is it?

Don't forget too thick Karrie !. Some of us are too thick to go to university

KarrieBee

Peelerfart wrote: »

Don't forget too thick Karrie !. Some of us are too thick to go to university

ha ha i've gone totally off topic too haven't I!

TREVORCOLMAN

Peelerfart wrote: »

Don't forget too thick Karrie !. Some of us are too thick to go to university

Talking of thick I wrote to a CEO of a large company regarding a problem I was having with his Company.

His reply included:

I am sorry to "here" that I will .......

!!!!!

Charlton_King

The OP has a point.

There is a phenomenon which started way back in the days of Mme Thatcher and which has precious little to do with the Labour Party and which I might name 'spendeverylastredcentitis'.

This is a condition which has grown to affect, seemingly, millions of people. It manifests itself through the apparent inability on the part of individuals to have any money in the bank at the end of a year when they have been on a salary of, say, £15K and are living at home with free board and lodging from Mum and Dad.

When people remind these types of the three foreign holidays they took, the incessant new clothes and gadgetry buying and the out-every-night-at-the-pub lifestyle they seem to be pursuing, no answer comes back.

And why no answer? Well of course, they're too busy whingeing on to Martin Lewis about how they just can't understand why their bank wants to penalise them for going overdrawn yet again...

opinions4u

Charlton_King wrote: »

There is a phenomenon which started way back in the days of Mme Thatcher and which has precious little to do with the Labour Party and which I might name 'spendeverylastredcentitis'.

I liked Thatcher's comparison of running the nation's finances to the managing a family budget.

Unfortunately the reality didn't quite balance out, especially after Mrs T was moved on.

But New Labour have taxed, spent and wasted significantly more than any other government in history. And local taxpayers are still paying the interest on the 60 year loans taken out under a previous Labour administration to build the residential towerblocks of the 1960s that have, in most cases, long since been demolished.

This is a condition which has grown to affect, seemingly, millions of people. It manifests itself through the apparent inability on the part of individuals to have any money in the bank at the end of a year when they have been on a salary of, say, £15K and are living at home with free board and lodging from Mum and Dad.

You are, of course, absolutely right. But not all individuals are the same.

When people remind these types of the three foreign holidays they took, the incessant new clothes and gadgetry buying and the out-every-night-at-the-pub lifestyle they seem to be pursuing, no answer comes back.

Do you know my stepson?

And why no answer? Well of course, they're too busy whingeing on to Martin Lewis about how they just can't understand why their bank wants to penalise them for going overdrawn yet again...

Oh yes :rotfl: