Renovations and Repayments.

AlexLK

turtlemoose wrote: »

I think because most people view pens as a disposable item. I don't think I'll spend even £100 in my lifetime on all the pens I'll ever use, let alone ten times that on one pen. Different strokes and all that

I'd imagine you're right. Writing with a decent pen is such a pleasure and a very different experience to writing with a disposable biro type pen.

Whilst I'm aware this is MSE, I would like to think everybody should own at least one nice pen in their lifetime.

edinburgher wrote: »

I'd go so far as to say that pens are rapidly becoming anachronistic. I use them to take notes and write cheques. I have biros that I got in my teenage years that still work, it's not something that most people need to buy. I wonder whether today's teens are more likely to own a tablet stylus than a pen? I have a hunch that, like email, it's a 'technology' that means nothing to them.

I bet that they no longer teach handwriting!

You raise an interesting point, Ed. Whilst handwriting is taught at school, I don't believe it is taught to the same level as it once was and decent handwriting (especially in adulthood) is becoming a lost art. Quite a few of my music pupils / parents comment on my handwriting (and the fact I always use a fountain pen). Until then I hadn't considered it to be anything out of the ordinary.

AlexLK

Monday 28th April, 2015.

Dear Diary,

I'm back and THE SAVINGS ARE OVER £5,000.

Today has been rather hectic as it was straight off the 'plane and back to business. Completely unplanned but a few £££s made left me rather pleased for the evening. However, tomorrow looks like a tidy up and laundry day before Mrs. K.gets back, that is if I don't go to look at a car I've seen up for sale.

The only thing that knocked me today was coming home to a letter from the school my son will be attending from September as I realise he's growing up fast. I wonder what will happen when my son has flown the nest and if he will wish to ever visit me when he is an adult.

Yours Faithfully,
Alex.

edinburgher

I went to a private school with one foot firmly in the past and it was expected that you would write with a fountain pen. As a result, I have lovely handwriting. As an adult, however, I have avoided them entirely. Being left handed is not a good companion to fountain pen use

Well done on the savings and the money making, you seem to have returned with luck on your side?

Of course your son will visit you, he might want money :rotfl:

Just joking, that's an unkind stereotype, I never asked my parents for money from the age of 17 onwards.

AlexLK

edinburgher wrote: »

I went to a private school with one foot firmly in the past and it was expected that you would write with a fountain pen. As a result, I have lovely handwriting. As an adult, however, I have avoided them entirely. Being left handed is not a good companion to fountain pen use

Same, apart from the avoidance and left handedness. I suppose I've always been a bit old-fashioned though.

edinburgher wrote: »

Well done on the savings and the money making, you seem to have returned with luck on your side?

Maybe yesterday. Today I was meant to have a meeting with a customer, though they've not turned up yet. Really quite getting a bit disillusioned with this business at the moment.

edinburgher wrote: »

Of course your son will visit you, he might want money :rotfl:

Just joking, that's an unkind stereotype, I never asked my parents for money from the age of 17 onwards.

This being my son, you're probably not too far off the mark.

edinburgher

I have been disillusioned with my current line of work for 5+ years, it doesn't seem to be resolving anything! Any ideas for alternative businesses that you might be more willing to invest your time in?

AlexLK

edinburgher wrote: »

I have been disillusioned with my current line of work for 5+ years, it doesn't seem to be resolving anything! Any ideas for alternative businesses that you might be more willing to invest your time in?

Not sure how anyone stays in a job they don't like for 5+ years.

I don't suppose the business is that bad, I'm just beginning to realise to make more money I'll need to find somebody other than my ex-business partner to make the furniture and try to sell items to people not just in the local area.

As for the alternative I'd quite like to go into classic cars or violins but I'll see how I feel about this at the end of the year as I have lots of ideas all the time, not all of them are good!

cazmanian_minx

I have a friend who's had to diversify out of musical instrument making (he used to restore historic instruments as well) into something completely different, he says the classical music industry in London is on its knees at the moment, no-one is buying. I'd go for the cars as a business and have the violins as a money-making hobby

cazmanian_minx

(The bonus for said friend is that what he's gone into has been ENORMOUSLY lucrative and he's gone from being someone who couldn't attend my wedding because he was attempting to avoid two large gentlemen who were wanting money off him and he didn't want them to gatecrash my day to someone who actually does have more money than he knows how to spend!)

edinburgher

Not sure how anyone stays in a job they don't like for 5+ years.

Not sure if you're being facetious or not. The name of this forum should furnish a clue

turtlemoose

AlexLK wrote: »

Not sure how anyone stays in a job they don't like for 5+ years.

Sometimes you just have to. I would find it very surprising if, overall, more people liked their jobs than not. Working is just a means to an end for many - something we must do, not something we want to do.

Those who find a calling, who truly enjoy what they do day in day out....well they are very lucky, and I would imagine are found in fewer numbers than those who just suck up the drudgery.