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  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    skint_spice, you hate it, you have other things you'd like to do with the time, you don't need the money... All that on one side of the argument and nothing on the other side except a vague "ought" to be working 7 days a week if you include both your uni work and your paid work? I know what I'd do. But it's up to you, of course. :)
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,538 Forumite
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    Oh and recently found out that the student working in his other shop who he told me had left as she got a job at uni (seemed strange timing for it as it was end of term) actually told him to stuff his job as he had been particularly obnoxious one day :D she's now working in a supermarket while she finishes degree:rotfl::rotfl:

    Last job was rarely fun but paid more than three times this one, had flexi time, lots of hols and as I was in a team of one I could basically take time off in 50 weeks of the year so you kind of balance the pros and cons:p.
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £34,965

    Money making challenge £78/400

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,538 Forumite
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    skint_spice, you hate it, you have other things you'd like to do with the time, you don't need the money... All that on one side of the argument and nothing on the other side except a vague "ought" to be working 7 days a week if you include both your uni work and your paid work? I know what I'd do. But it's up to you, of course. :)

    lol thanks Lydia - keep posting and especially when you agree with me:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £34,965

    Money making challenge £78/400

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,612 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Leave in a word.
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • teapot2
    teapot2 Posts: 3,577 Forumite
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    Seems to me [for what its worth] that this job has nothing to commend it? Maybe its just your work ethic keeping you there but you're worth more than that - deffo ;)
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    skint_spice wrote: »
    lol thanks Lydia - keep posting and especially when you agree with me:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Thanks! ;)

    Let us know what you do about the job. :)
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    skint_spice wrote: »
    lol thanks Lydia - keep posting and especially when you agree with me:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    I'll try to keep posting, as requested, but I'm hoping the MFW label won't apply much longer. Just heard the second instalment of my compensation money has arrived at my solicitor. Got to wait for it to clear through their bank before they post me a cheque, which has to travel through the post, and then clear through my bank, and then I'll pay off the rest and be MF without the W.

    Current estimated MF day is Friday 15 August. Hmm. As I type that I realise that's the day after A-level results day. I can either have a double celebration or use the MF-dom to take my mind off the A-levels, as applicable. ;)
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,612 Ambassador
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    Have you left yet :cool:
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    beanielou wrote: »
    Have you left yet :cool:

    :rotfl:

    Have you Claymored him yet? ;)
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,612 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Set Clyde on him :grin:
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
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