Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Doozergirl...will send photos this pm....while you were snuggling with your honey in the middle of the night (or posting on here for some strange reason) I was forced to explain to the ambulance service that yes, last night they WERE my taxis.

Strangley, feel oretty good for 27ish waking hours on the trot now, and no drugs involved. Having a cup of tea and dealing with corespondance before hitting the hay for a couple of hours. Meeting a carpenter this afternoon to see if he and we are compatible.

Are we allowed to ask what happened? Glad to hear you're back home and feeling a bit better, anyway. Please look after yourself.

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh considers seriously some lower paying jobs. He has to or there would be no movement possible. While we cannot afford to drop out of bracket sometimes short term loss of thousands or even tens of thousands might pa back with better route for promotion in the future or better team.

I have no frame of reference for a salary where dropping tens of thousands wouldn't take you out of bracket. Not that I grudge it to you and fir - all that lovely money couldn't go to nicer people.

PN - hope they have the wit to realise what an asset you would be to them.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Fwiw, normal/traditional front door yale lock not much cop. There are better models of yale lock......so which do you mean?
Doozers ensist on five level locks minimum. (the one insurance companies like). I know one!


In our commercial areas eventually we are considering a fingerprint lock...so clients can get in, but after they stop being clients.

We have a new spokesperson!

Yes a five lever mortice deadlock. For that as well as the nightlatch, I think ERA is the brand to have.

PasturesNew

Quick tot up, amounts now to:
4 jobs applied for
1 interview for another role at one of those companies
1 email rejection
2 not heard from

misskool

Doozergirl wrote: »

We have a new spokesperson!

Yes a five lever mortice deadlock. For that as well as the nightlatch, I think ERA is the brand to have.

it's an era one. i think it looks cheap. :rotfl:

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

What....? Do you cut their fingers off??!!

No, that would be brutal. We just burn off the print.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Are we allowed to ask what happened? Glad to hear you're back home and feeling a bit better, anyway. Please look after yourself.



I have no frame of reference for a salary where dropping tens of thousands wouldn't take you out of bracket. Not that I grudge it to you and fir - all that lovely money couldn't go to nicer people.

PN - hope they have the wit to realise what an asset you would be to them.

Think tax brackets i guess for salary reference. Lots of people who want dh want to pay about 75- 80 % current salary. We could not really continue as now on that.

Remember, for tens of k its only really about half that in any case iyswim. Or a quarter, if you consider his salary is a household oncome really, not just a sole one. Many peoe in couples have budgeted for a drop from say, twentythree to 21 k, 35 to thrty two and a half. Essentially, its not much different. 10k just does not mean 10k. E.g. Dh goes up a pay band each year, some times these payband seem massive to me even pq, they seem like a good part time income for example, yet, they equate as for example, not even a train ticket a month after tax etc. so these 'huge' sums have meant, in practicality....that we have not suffered so badly in the inflationary period as others on more static income, rather than we are better off personally iyswim.

Its funny. I can budget for a ten k loss, even if we end up negative ina year we can cope with that, if its part of a good plan, if we thnk about it, but i still consider £100 quid a nice wodge of cash. Its part, i suppose of a gambling spend to accumulate style thinking. If somethiong makes a short term loss for a long term gain if you can mitigate losses to not be cataclismic it may be worth it, if you can not then, not worth it. So a nice job over with a 75% of current pay offer was just to low to move for he decided. If the same offer was made by current seccondment i think it would be harder to turn down, because while it would be hard financially the work life balance is SO much better and he would probably negotiate a situation where he was commuting to london twice a week and living here, so losses might be some what mitigated , but it would be changing whole career plan.



Edit. Oh yeah...what happened is that i was warned at some point the new pills would stop workilng. Last night they stopped working a bit. I had a very short term (minutes, not tens of minutes) loss of vision in the right eye, got up, got dressed, called an ambulance and put the dogs out ofr a widdle, sent a text to parent so that they knew when they woke up to get out and let dogs out and chickens and that i would call later.


I then got monitored in hospital and in the main everything was ok by then any way. My facial nerves were a bit 'slow' (old problem not the new one, and just because i was tired) but everything else ok so the monitored me til morning then let me out after a discussion about what we do next etc. i am back opn the lumbar puncture list (i did sayi i would not be stubborn if things got worse etc) and seeing the endocrinologist next week.

I think the plan is i acdept i will probably lose some vision temporarily this week and next so i just keep as well rested as possible.

The irony is i actually felt quite good and got some exercise yesterday which cheered me up no end, rofl.

PasturesNew

Talking of high salaries... even if I GOT the job tomorrow it comes in at 'worth' £50/week more than dole would be ... out of which there are commuting and clothes costs etc. So, never mind losing £10s of 000s .... job applications at the moment couldn't legally drop by one £10k/year.

Of course, for me, it's worth more than "£50 more than dole would be" as I am currently earning about £140/week less than dole would be as I'm not on any benefits but am spending my savings.

Dole would be: £300/month dole + rent + council tax.

michaels

We have approved locks on all the doors although I understand there is some easy way to force the multipoint lift the handle to lock patio door style locks?

michaels

Removal of child benefit = 4k pay cut for me plus inflation = another couple of k so I would need a 10% pay increase next Jan just to stand still

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Talking of high salaries... even if I GOT the job tomorrow it comes in at 'worth' £50/week more than dole would be ... out of which there are commuting and clothes costs etc. So, never mind losing £10s of 000s .... job applications at the moment couldn't legally drop by one £10k/year.

Of course, for me, it's worth more than "£50 more than dole would be" as I am currently earning about £140/week less than dole would be as I'm not on any benefits but am spending my savings.

Dole would be: £300/month dole + rent + council tax.

My first summer job back in 'the seventies paid me £17.60 per week (the dole was £12 per week). By the time I paid my bus fare I made £2 per week more than the dole)!

Heaviest job I ever did, much heavier than building site work, just working in a supermarket unloading lorries - the female staff got to stack the shelves!

Swapped it for a building site job, much more relaxing!