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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    I love Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :D

    'The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't'......pure class! :rotfl:
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  • johanne
    johanne Posts: 1,830 Forumite
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    im currently temping as an admin clerk dealing with deep-sea imports Contract ends the end of the month though and i go onto maternity leave.

    Then i dont know what i'll be doing after baby - probably end up back in retail as a part time sales assistant or something :o (even though ive worked as a retail supervisor/manager) However im studying through the OU towards a Business/Economics degree so will have to see where i end up eventually. :confused:
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,575 Forumite
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    postingalwaysposting wrote: »
    i clear tables and make sandwiches in a wholesalers, i am the chaff amongst you :rotfl:

    have you not also got a wee business going too?
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  • mrsspendalot
    mrsspendalot Posts: 3,238 Forumite
    I'm a stay at home mum of 3, hubby is a bus driver .... I'm currently looking at my career options after graduating last month .... not getting very far at the moment!
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  • Jacqz
    Jacqz Posts: 61 Forumite
    I work as a sales exec for a home heating oil company
  • postingalwaysposting
    postingalwaysposting Posts: 13,987 Forumite
    skint_spice wrote: »
    have you not also got a wee business going too?

    yep but that doesn't count as its not generating me an income ~ it hasn't done so since the first week it was up.
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,575 Forumite
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    postingalwaysposting wrote: »
    yep but that doesn't count as its not generating me an income ~ it hasn't done so since the first week it was up.

    yet, these things take a while. keep plugging away and you'll get there.

    one of my friends ran a craft shop at a loss for many years but she'd still say she was an artist...
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  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
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    I work in admin/accounts for a wee oil pipeline company.... decided to do a book keeping home study course so i can have a skill that might generate some income...

    Have to open the notes soon!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    I'm a barrister, so i was studying for a long time, I wasn't fully qualified until I was 25.

    I did have quite a bit of debt at the end of all that, all paid off now, though (I'm 30).

    What are you thinking of studying?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • red74
    red74 Posts: 348 Forumite
    skint_spice wrote: »
    yet, these things take a while. keep plugging away and you'll get there.

    one of my friends ran a craft shop at a loss for many years but she'd still say she was an artist...

    Agree with skint spice here. And if I remember rightly from my business college days (admittedly quite some time ago), most small businesses don't make any profit at all for the first two years.
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