Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

michaels

There was a piece on I think the BBC saying Festivals were all taking a break this year due to lack of interest and reduced discretionary spending - are you seeing this in your part of the market?

CKhalvashi wrote: »

It’s the consultancy side for large music events that brings the bulk of my income to what it is, and that’s the bit that I don’t particularly enjoy, but it gets us there. I haven’t always had the income that I have, until 2003, when I was 20, we were struggling with a young child, 2nd on the way. It did pay off in the end, though, and makes everything else worthwhile, and it was one contract we’ve had from the beginning of the event that gave us our break!

vivatifosi

LydiaJ wrote: »

We agree more than I may have given the impression of. My concern was not to excuse lack of initiative in those dealt a poor hand - I would never want to do that - but to warn against unwarranted smugness amongst those who've been dealt lots of aces and kings.

Yeah, I know, I just get depressed when people give up.

When I was five and we were on our way to Australia as ten pound poms I'd watch my parents play cards at night and pretend I was asleep. I'd then wait until they were off doing something else, get myself out of school or wherever I was supposed to be and go challenge the adults at 3 card brag for sweets and money. I think I've been dealt a lot of aces and kings too, but possibly not in the way you meant;). I earned a lot of sweets too!

Doozergirl

misskool wrote: »

IT is a shame you're not nearer to me. We were looking for a muck heap but didn't get round to it.

I ache today. Another class on Monday to keep the pain levels strong.

Good girl. I need to get back to yoga. I'm using you as inspiration - keep up the pressure!

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Spirit wrote: »

My cats would like you, they love citrus peel. .

I really like the one he had done with a knife too, but it was already sold.

Its just very nice. So, small dark pictures of oranges and birdy lamps, and no electricity to the ceiling lights, the foundations for our perfect home. . Any luck and one day soon i will find a stuffed pug or armadillo and then i'll really be getting somewhere:D

Funny that. Examined earlier, your half orange is beautiful but the one with the knife did pip it slightly at favourite for me. Some of his shadows on the still lives leave the objects floating but you got the right one - the horizon point grounds it properly and he should do more like that.

I've noticed that people who buy our houses often pick out things that they own as well - association. I think we'd have the same water glasses for the dining table as you if H hadn't lost the red ticket from the postman and picked them up from the post office - 2 sets - one warm colours one cold? Convinced that I have throws like the one on your yummy chaise (if mine hadn't been chucked in the washing machine a couple of times)

EDIT: the thing I meant to say to start with was that DD fell in love with the sparkly branches and birds in the cabinet in your room on our trip to the bathroom and stroke cats

Doozergirl

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I’m insured for £10m Public Liability and £5m Professional Indemnity, with my car insured for £5m PL, but I don’t know if that extends from the recording studio to tree cutting, and yes I can climb trees.

I’d bring a trailer, leaving no wood for anyone to carry up the garden, if the towing ratios on my car would allow.

CK

Doubt it will cover you. There are clauses about height and depth even for tradespeople and their policies are priced accordingly, even if they don't climb big ladders. An 'office' based product would cost a lot less and not cover you to put a foot on a ladder. I'm certain that I'm insured for ladders to a certain height, and I don't do ladders unless forced, as I go up fine but scream when I come back down

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Still Sue, PN and I can look in through the windows at the bright lights of the rest of your lives.

Are you sure about that statement? I'm not a fan of putting people in boxes.

I'm not sure what box I fit in; like one of the nice ladies has suggested, I fit in different boxes by geography, hair colour, BMI or charge out rate. I think, I hope I know everyone here enough to know that we're each faced with our own challenges and, for those lucky enough, choices. Most, if not all, have crosses to bear. This thread makes it clear for me that none of us has the money to buy our way out of situations we'd like it to, or give us back what we've lost, and that honesty is what provides the level playing field. We're all differing ages, with differing commitments, in different areas of the land.

Numbers shouldn't be thrown around without thought. Some comes as part of conversation, some doesn't; we're all accepting of each other but, well...

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

from the figures being thrown around on this board, i am in the wrong job.

You do all right

I started at 4.30am .... and came to MSE when my eyes started to cross over ... and after 16 hours of graft, probably 14 solid hours and 2 fannying about .... today I've reaped a massive £9.

LydiaJ

We've all known all along that the incomes of the NP are spread over a very wide range. We have managed nearly 35,000 posts spread over 5 NP threads without pigeonholing each other about income, or looking down on each other for earning/receiving more or less than ourselves. Which is no mean achievement on a site where money is the main focus.

Well done us - so far. Please let's keep it up.

PasturesNew

I'd be doing all right if Plan A had worked... Plan A was "It doesn't matter what you earn because you can live on the interest of your savings" ... doh. That thought lasted about a year ....

Plan A also included "can always temp" - nope, market collapsed ... and then I moved and got all caught up with the stuff I am dealing with most of the time; only been able to start to "take a mental day out" in the past 2 weeks.

And finally Plan A included "maek lotza internets muneh" .... not if you abandon it because of other !!!! hitting the fan for a whole year.

And, for my future ... I fear I am unemployable on so many levels I don't even want to go through the pain and humiliation of trying to look for work to be honest. I have no faith in anybody's recruitment process - and I have no confidence in myself.

It's one thing to be great at what you could do ... but another to convince some shiny person with a clipboard ticking responses on a list that you can do it. Mostly they ask completely irrelevant questions.... and I give daft answers because the questions aren't relevant to my experience, or the job... just a bunch of interview questions they plucked off t'Internet.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

You do all right

I started at 4.30am .... and came to MSE when my eyes started to cross over ... and after 16 hours of graft, probably 14 solid hours and 2 fannying about .... today I've reaped a massive £9.

Gah!:mad: I can't afford anything that makes one website that attracts natural attention and yet you make £9 for 16 hours work? Collectively, we must be able to do better than this!

Are you tweeting? The attention I draw is coming from tweeting and half (if not more) isn't work related. I've not blogged yet, still thinking of a big enough list, but keywords are going a lot into twitter and I can cope with appealing to that, it seems. You'd know exactly how to capitalise on that, posting little links into blogs and whatnot for yourself and doing it for others, as a cottage industry, perhaps.