Millionaire Challenge

gothrockchic1

The course is £3200 discounted if paid in full.

I'm doing Sales Admin at the minute and after several years I think it's time for a change, it's not going help me make a million! Neither will HR but its a start!

diadeb

gothrockchic1 wrote: »

The course is £3200 discounted if paid in full.

I'm doing Sales Admin at the minute and after several years I think it's time for a change, it's not going help me make a million! Neither will HR but its a start!

So within two years you will have recouped the cost of the course and will have another string to your bow? Sounds good to me. Do shop around though and see if there's anyway of getting the qualifications any cheaper.

Just dropping in briefly - I'm an eavesdropper on the challenge, but do love reading your updates. Lessonlearned I have huge admiration for you, you have had to cope with so much in life but you're determined to rise up again. Good for you!

MKeynesMoneySaver

Another question, what is the qualification?

Is it recognised and valued within HR?

lessonlearned

Just a quickie - I'm supposed to be getting on with my to do list but I'm being very naughty and am procrastinating. A cup of coffee and a quick catch up on here and then it's back to the grindstone.

Gothic-chick think the idea of investing in a course sounds like a good one. I agree, take your time to find the right one that meets your needs.

You say you are in sales admin - what type of business do your company do. The reason I ask is this.

I have a friend whose son refused to stay on at school, left at 16 having just scraped a couple of GSCE's and managed to get a job in sales admin for a plant hire firm. After a couple of years he had a lightbulb moment.

He thought what am I doing, I should set up my own plant hire firm. I know enough. His parents nearly had a heart attack when he just chucked up his job and set up on his own.

He was only about 20 - ah the confidence of youth:rotfl::rotfl:
Anyway he did it, and the rest is history. He is now a wealthy man.....

Do you think your job in sales admin has given you a grounding for you to find a way of striking out on your own in a similar business to that which you already know.

If not then a course in HR should definitely open a few doors.

Well I've had a busy couple of weeks - running around after my parents so have done very little for myself. (Hence the long to do list). It is looking very doubtful about me being able to help them move house. They are just too ill and frail. I'm afraid it looks very much like the next move will be into a nursing home.

I've also been very pre-occupied with OH's problems and his hospital appts etc. After his last chest infection his overall health has dipped again and he is now paralysed down his left hand side. He is also starting to have difficulties with swallowing and it looks like his vocal chords are going. Everyone is doing all they can to help ease his symptoms - which is why we have all the toing and froing to hospital at the moment.

However, I really need to get a grip and sort out some stuff before April 6, the end of the tax year so that is my mission for the next few days.

I'm also trying to address a couple of health issues of my own. Nothing serious and all stress related. However, my physio gave me a bit of a lecture about not taking proper care of myself.

So my other mission is get fit and healthy. Sleep, rest, exercise, and healthy eating.

The bank balance is good - now it's time to make a few deposits in the health bank.:rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

A lurker here:D

Just to give peeps the heads up if you sell on the bay.

Postage charges are changing, and they are re-structuring the parcel rates, to now take into consideration the size of the parcel.

something that would have cost approx £2.70ish to post will be £5.20:eek:

It will def worth you going over to the ebay board and reading the threads on there.

It will be cheaper to use a courier or the likes of collect plus or my hermes

gallygirl

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

A lurker here:D

Just to give peeps the heads up if you sell on the bay.

Postage charges are changing, and they are re-structuring the parcel rates, to now take into consideration the size of the parcel.

something that would have cost approx £2.70ish to post will be £5.20:eek:

It will def worth you going over to the ebay board and reading the threads on there.

It will be cheaper to use a courier or the likes of collect plus or my hermes

16cm x 16cm x 16cm will be £2.60. Just thought I'd chuck that in so I'm not the only person walking around looking at packaging boxes in supermarkets and offices :rotfl:. Thinking shoe boxes would yield a couple about the right size.

gothrockchic1

MKeynesMoneySaver wrote: »

Another question, what is the qualification?

Is it recognised and valued within HR?

It's a CIPD qualification, most employers ask for it.

gothrockchic1

lessonlearned wrote: »

Just a quickie - I'm supposed to be getting on with my to do list but I'm being very naughty and am procrastinating. A cup of coffee and a quick catch up on here and then it's back to the grindstone.

Gothic-chick think the idea of investing in a course sounds like a good one. I agree, take your time to find the right one that meets your needs.

You say you are in sales admin - what type of business do your company do. The reason I ask is this.

I have a friend whose son refused to stay on at school, left at 16 having just scraped a couple of GSCE's and managed to get a job in sales admin for a plant hire firm. After a couple of years he had a lightbulb moment.

He thought what am I doing, I should set up my own plant hire firm. I know enough. His parents nearly had a heart attack when he just chucked up his job and set up on his own.

He was only about 20 - ah the confidence of youth:rotfl::rotfl:
Anyway he did it, and the rest is history. He is now a wealthy man.....

Do you think your job in sales admin has given you a grounding for you to find a way of striking out on your own in a similar business to that which you already know.

If not then a course in HR should definitely open a few doors.

Well I've had a busy couple of weeks - running around after my parents so have done very little for myself. (Hence the long to do list). It is looking very doubtful about me being able to help them move house. They are just too ill and frail. I'm afraid it looks very much like the next move will be into a nursing home.

I've also been very pre-occupied with OH's problems and his hospital appts etc. After his last chest infection his overall health has dipped again and he is now paralysed down his left hand side. He is also starting to have difficulties with swallowing and it looks like his vocal chords are going. Everyone is doing all they can to help ease his symptoms - which is why we have all the toing and froing to hospital at the moment.

However, I really need to get a grip and sort out some stuff before April 6, the end of the tax year so that is my mission for the next few days.

I'm also trying to address a couple of health issues of my own. Nothing serious and all stress related. However, my physio gave me a bit of a lecture about not taking proper care of myself.

So my other mission is get fit and healthy. Sleep, rest, exercise, and healthy eating.

The bank balance is good - now it's time to make a few deposits in the health bank.:rotfl:

Thanks Lesson Learned. I'm in the Motor Trade which is not what I'd like to do in business.

The thing that puts me off is getting into meaning I won't be able to save as much.

But if it increases my salary then it will be worth it.

MKeynesMoneySaver

If it's CIPD then it will be worth having, as that is the industry body.

Some qualifications aren't worth the paper the certificate is printed on.

If HR is what you are interested in and can see yourself doing long-term then I say go for it

Deep_Ocean

I am engrossed in this thread and will follow with interest. As said by Oscar Hammerstein II “You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?” Perhaps more famously quoted by Del Boy himself, “This time next year we will be millionaires”.


It was when I was a postman between 2003/07 delivering to halls, farms, stately homes and mansions that I began dreaming of living the high life. Since then I have studied A-Levels and risked it all going to uni full time to study an accountancy degree. It was hard going but I got 1st Class Honours in my degree in August 2011 but could not get a job until Feb 2012. I continue to work in this position as a Finance Manager on a measly £16k per year (less than the salary I was on as a postman). As the REM lyrics state it often feels like “I am pushing an elephant up the stairs”

This does not faze me but excites me. I once saw my nephew playing Fifa on his Playstation on the easiest level and was winning 13-0. I said to him, how boring must that game be, wouldn’t it be much more exciting to face the toughest challenges on the hardest level? It is the same in life, it would be somewhat of a damp squib to simply be born with a silver spoon in your mouth or to be handed everything on a plate. Life is damn difficult, but boy when you achieve something for yourself it doesn’t half feel good.

I don’t cheat, I don’t steal, and I don’t stamp on people to get ahead. Everything I have achieved in life (however modest it may be) I can hold my head up high and be proud. I run a modest little affiliate based website which generates a modest income for me to top up my salary and I am now studying CIMA to gain chartered status in accountancy. But often I will be studying or working on my website and my partner will grumble at me. She once said “You have been at work all day and I haven’t seen you, can’t you spend some time with me rather than on the computer?". I snapped back in frustration "I would love to spend time with you but I am busy trying to improve our income so we can have a nice comfortable life". She sweetly responded "I don't want money, I want you, I don't need money, I need you". This made me realise how rich I actually am. I have a comfortable and modest home which I own; I have a beautiful fiancee and my first baby due in 3 weeks’ time. If I had earned my million by now I would trade it all in an instant for the life I actually have, because surely this is the real dream that is coming true.

I will continue to chase the dream of living in my own stately home one day but in my final moments of life it won’t be my bank balance that I will be reflecting on but the quality time I have spent with my family, this is the real treasure in life.