Money (bbc programme)

katiecoodle

I really felt for the scientists wife actually! We only saw edited snippets remember - we don't know her background which would be a good indication of her expectations from a husband. She clearly wanted the best for her children which isn't a bad thing. She knew that it would cost money & was ultimately really frustrated working alongside good earners (the lawyers) when her own husband was just as clever & able as they were but wasn't being rewarded as well. She actually made the point that he was so well educated (did you hear him rattle off that long list of degrees he had) that it wouldn't be an unreasonable length of time to retrain - as opposed to her, who didn't have the educational foundation. She recognised that she had an option - to split up, but also recognised that the best thing for the children was to remain married, so she was doing her best despite him not being willing to consider it.
Ultimately the programme highlighted the problems which had been stored up by rushing into the relationship - they contrasted it really well with those newly married doctors.

steviesteveo

MandM90 wrote: »

I thought that the jobless couple seemed quite sweet at the beginning, but I was really shocked when they said they were trying for a baby. The stupidity amazes me sometimes. The PP who said only the caravan couple were in love; I think the Ghanaian couple seemed REALLY in love. Either way, most couples won't seem in love when you start grilling them about their attitudes to money. It's hardly the most romantic subject!

The previous programme sickened me quite a lot. The young ones, especially. I hope they don't look back in ten years time and regret wasting their years and money away on those silly conferences and books. From what I saw, many of the 'rich' interviewees were only rich because silly people kept paying them money to be told to jump up and down and convince themselves life will get better. How one can, after spending 50,000 pounds they don't have on conferences and ending up near bankruptcy, still believe they will earn seven million in a few years is beyond me! I think some of these people are on another planet :eek:

Absolutely agreed. I found the previous show so depressing because of how vulnerable the people paying for the courses looked, especially the nursery nurse with the motivational Post It notes on her wall.

I thought it was quite a noticeable omission to not have a millionaire person on the show who had gotten there because they attended these £2,000 a seat become-a-millionaire courses. I'm completely convinced the only way those can make you rich involves selling the tickets.

claire16c

Theyre going to be talking about this woman on the Wright Stuff this morning. So shes clearly wound a few people up!


Edit - shes rung into the programme. Said her comments were edited and shes happy with her DH still working in Science, thinks he does a great job and should be paid more. Said she met him when she was part way through a degree course but got pregnant 6 weeks later and so gave it up. She said its not just about private schools theyll never be able afford that, its more about having more money in general as although 34k is an ok salary as she has stayed at home to look after the kids and only just now got a part time job, it doesnt go far.

Johnny_Barnes10

People always seem to want more, while there's nothing wrong with this I feel in her case she should look to get a better paid job. He LOVES his job, something the majority of people can't say. That's priceless, he probably COULD re-train and earn more. But if he doesn't like that new job then their marriage could suffer as a result. Not like they're going without as it is now is it!

Errata

claire16c wrote: »

Theyre going to be talking about this woman on the Wright Stuff this morning. So shes clearly wound a few people up!


Edit - shes rung into the programme. Said her comments were edited and shes happy with her DH still working in Science, thinks he does a great job and should be paid more. Said she met him when she was part way through a degree course but got pregnant 6 weeks later and so gave it up. She said its not just about private schools theyll never be able afford that, its more about having more money in general as although 34k is an ok salary as she has stayed at home to look after the kids and only just now got a part time job, it doesnt go far.

The words "Well, she would say that wouldn't she" spring to mind. Becoming pregnant is no reason to give up studying for a degree, she could have continued with the OU.

Plans_all_plans

Yeah she could have done, but maybe she and her husband decided that as a family their interests were best served by her being at home for a while.

gallygirl

Plans_all_plans wrote: »

Yeah she could have done, but maybe she and her husband decided that as a family their interests were best served by her being at home for a while.

No reason why she can't study with the OU though if she wants to better the family's chances. I did my degree as a single parent working full time so it can be done, and I now earn 3 times as much. She is obviously bright if she was studying at Birbeck, so maybe she could consider this as an option. Yes, it takes 6 years if you do a module a year, and that IS a long time - but that time will pass anyway so she may as well have something to show for it.

Welshwoofs

gallygirl wrote: »

She is obviously bright if she was studying at Birbeck, so maybe she could consider this as an option.

That part I don't quite understand actually.

She said on the program, and has said since, that she's only got GCSEs. So how on earth was she studying for a degree at Birkbeck? I'm cracking on a bit so perhaps the world has drastically changed, but in my day you needed A-Levels to study for a degree.

Plans_all_plans

If I remember rightly (from the comments section in the guardian article posted above) she had either just completed an access course at Birkbeck, or she'd done an access course just prior to starting at Birkbeck. Then she fell pregnant, so left the course.

claire16c

I think she was doing a law degree. And so the OU wouldnt necessarily be the best place to do that, if you wanted to go on afterwards and actually become a lawyer. But yes its possibly she could have by now got herself a degree of some sorts.

But yeah, she did seem to pretty much contradict most stuff she said on the programme which is kind of funny as yes somethings can be edited, but at the end of the day, she still said it!