"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

boredofbeingathome

I am hoping to have a nice evening i am determined to chill tonight- i have new books and a series finale to look forward to

gilligansyle

Enjoy your evening.

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

ETA - slightly worrying on the trading charts right now - everything's very erratic, up and down like a yoyo.

It's probably just people getting twitchy over the Greeks.

Karmacat wrote: »

Might just be the charts I use, but the last time there was stuff like this, was the financial crisis - it was worse then, but I'm kind of wary right now...

Financial crisis? We haven't had that yet.

Karmacat

Thanks all! Bob, hope you enjoyed your finale and your books, lovely when you've got those to look forward to.

ZTD wrote: »

It's probably just people getting twitchy over the Greeks. Financial crisis? We haven't had that yet.

Z, um, thanks for this! Omigod, we're all going to die, don't panic :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Bizarrely, reading the page that Z has linked to has cheered me up ... I usually sit in front of the tv in the morning to drink my coffee, then come on here - I couldn't face it this morning, because of all the news about pensions for women.

In 1998, when I bought my last house, I was due to retire at the age of 60, in 2014. Now, in 2011, I'm due to retire in 2020. I feel sick looking at that.

Now I have some caffeine inside me, my inclination is to say "f*** 'em" and make a million pounds and tell them to stuff their legislation ... but of course life doesn't work like that. I've certainly lost all respect for those in public life; mind you, that happened a long time ago - as Dan Gardner says, my attitude is not one of scepticism, but of cynicism, which isn't particularly healthy - but then, when its proved over and over again how people in legislative power will act, to me it seems the only logical attitude.

gilligansyle

Karmacat wrote: »

In 1998, when I bought my last house, I was due to retire at the age of 60, in 2014. Now, in 2011, I'm due to retire in 2020. I feel sick looking at that.


Now I have some caffeine inside me, my inclination is to say "f*** 'em" and make a million pounds and tell them to stuff their legislation ... but of course life doesn't work like that.

Millionaire is definitely the way forward

Karmacat

gilligansyle wrote: »

Millionaire is definitely the way forward

I love this. I really love this :j:j:j:j

Thank you :kisses3:

Double_Trouble

The pension thing I have tried to turn into a positive in that it gives me extra years to work which hopefully makes me more employable?

DTxx

But the millionaire option is a nice thought

redsquirrel80

Well done on your bargains - 50p for 1kg of spinach is great. Of course when you're a millionaire you will be able to buy all the spinach you want

MrsMoo2U

Karmacat wrote: »

Bizarrely, reading the page that Z has linked to has cheered me up ... I usually sit in front of the tv in the morning to drink my coffee, then come on here - I couldn't face it this morning, because of all the news about pensions for women.

In 1998, when I bought my last house, I was due to retire at the age of 60, in 2014. Now, in 2011, I'm due to retire in 2020. I feel sick looking at that.

Now I have some caffeine inside me, my inclination is to say "f*** 'em" and make a million pounds and tell them to stuff their legislation ... but of course life doesn't work like that. I've certainly lost all respect for those in public life; mind you, that happened a long time ago - as Dan Gardner says, my attitude is not one of scepticism, but of cynicism, which isn't particularly healthy - but then, when its proved over and over again how people in legislative power will act, to me it seems the only logical attitude.

I couldnt agree more. Hence my attempts at escaping the country. Ok, I know it is the same the world over mostly but it will take me a few years to work that out in another country.

For me I need to add into the mix that as a "civil servant" now "public" servant I have spent years working in a very low paid job in relation to the private sector. What kept me there and many other people was the thought that we had a good pension and would be ok in retirement. Already I have had my pensions investments change twice over the last 10 years, drastically reducing it. I have adjusted my savings to allow for the changes but there is no way that I can keep up with what is happening now.So as my friend says, no more, I am following my passion not my pension. I dont want to be seen as a "burden" on society which is what it seems to me that the Government of the day is aiming to make people feel like.

Karmacat

Apart from a couple of years at the beginning of my working life, I've always been in the charity sector or worked for myself as a counsellor - neither of which are particularly well paid.

However, I came on here to say: I love my business partner (oh! we aren't business partners in the usual senses of those words - we're both self employed therapists, who share advertising and are each others peer supervisors). He "gets" me And he took me seriously about me stopping the work when I wasn't taking myself seriously I love him for that

So lots of thinking going on right now - it'll take a few days to come to fruition.