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  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    As I see it, you spend the first half of your career learning, and the second half teaching.....

    The first half is more work, but the second half is more challenging.

    I've always held the view that you never stop learning. Dangerous to be complacent. I've worked under a non-exec chairman who was 74 at the time. Switched on would be understatement to describe him as being.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    As I see it, you spend the first half of your career learning, and the second half teaching.....

    The first half is more work, but the second half is more challenging.

    Or both teaching and working. My dad has had retirement cancelled a few times now, hopefully he's got a replacement now, but he's still working six day weeks ATM. Never not worked Christmas eve/NYE as he won't ask people to work something he's not prepared to himself. Frankly though, for this sort of work aholic I worry he has so devoted himself to his work he will suffer from lack of direction in retirement.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    A work ethic is fine, but you have to learn when to kick back... unfortunately for me, I appear to have done that 20 years too early :)
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    I've always held the view that you never stop learning. Dangerous to be complacent. I've worked under a non-exec chairman who was 74 at the time. Switched on would be understatement to describe him as being.

    His name Yoda might be, hmmm?;)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • tommy75
    tommy75 Posts: 583 Forumite
    Yet more good news for the housing market. The average house up around £10K in just 6 months. (more according to Nationwide)

    You seem happy by this? So by the time anybody looking to try and buy a home scrapes together a bigger deposit over the next few years by not having any sort of life, house prices will have risen again, stopping me from purchasing again. :rolleyes:
  • nembot
    nembot Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    tommy75 wrote: »
    You seem happy by this? So by the time anybody looking to try and buy a home scrapes together a bigger deposit over the next few years by not having any sort of life, house prices will have risen again, stopping me from purchasing again. :rolleyes:

    I'd be pretty suprised if prices were higher than today in 12 months time, 10% lower would be my rough guess.

    There's only so many people with enough money sustaining these alleged rises, it'll run out soon and reality will follow.

    Can't have the biggest boom ever, with the shortest recovery - unless wages suddenly increased by 60% in the last 5 years and nobody told me.
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