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Post by Alex on Oct 20, 2017 10:23:29 GMT
I read that as 'wank list' I need help. Or you were right the first time?  Either that or it really does affect your eyesight! |
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Post by ChrisM on Oct 20, 2017 16:36:40 GMT
Gary Player always said he found the harder he worked the luckier he got. I'm guessing you're a bit of a glass half empty sort of chap Chris. It's not just me.... however when I was at primary school I wanted to be an airline pilot. The Court Line then collapsed and I was advised by "experts" against this career as there was a surplus of pilots and not enough planes, so I might never get a job. The benefit of hindsight, eh? If only I had followed my desires and instincts instead of the advice of "professionals". And so I have had a life of relative misery employed at some no-hope companies (but I only found this out after starting work for them) with relatively specialised skills (not every company has a need for "quality" staff) etc etc. But I have come across others who have suffered worse, like one guy who worked and worked and worked for his employer, was owed loads of overtime plus a month's salary only for the company to be shut down as insolvent despite having a healthy order book. The owner had apparently done a "tax fiddle" and a few weeks later set up another company in the same premises doing the same (manufaturing) work but had miraculously saved a month's wages for all his old staff olus their overtime payments due....... or my former colleague from Swindon, one of, if not THE, leading expert in the use of plastics in the UK water industry, also representing the UK on National and International Standards committees, who ended up re-tuning people's TV sets for Channel 5 when it launched because our then-employer pulled the plug on its entire UK and Standards Resource Group as a sort of protest to some of its customers (or so it appears we found out)........ Some of us have ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time, more than once........ through no fault of our own |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 20, 2017 17:09:33 GMT
Gary Player always said he found the harder he worked the luckier he got. I'm guessing you're a bit of a glass half empty sort of chap Chris. It's not just me.... however when I was at primary school I wanted to be an airline pilot. The Court Line then collapsed and I was advised by "experts" against this career as there was a surplus of pilots and not enough planes, so I might never get a job. The benefit of hindsight, eh? If only I had followed my desires and instincts instead of the advice of "professionals". Really Chris? You blame your entire life on the fact that you were talked of becoming a pilot by experts you met in primary school??? Have a word with yourself. |
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Post by Stuntman on Oct 20, 2017 19:04:42 GMT
Indeed. When times are tough, I find it helps to look forward rather than backward. Chin up old chap, enjoy your cars and everything else!
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Post by ChrisM on Oct 20, 2017 19:28:43 GMT
Really Chris? You blame your entire life on the fact that you were talked of becoming a pilot by experts you met in primary school??? Have a word with yourself. There's a lot more to it than that, and it was after I had left primary school that the Court Line went belly-up (a quick Google gives the date as Aug 1974 - how does a holiday company go bust during the peak season??? Wow, 43 years ago) |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 20, 2017 20:18:56 GMT
Really Chris? You blame your entire life on the fact that you were talked of becoming a pilot by experts you met in primary school??? Have a word with yourself. There's a lot more to it than that, and it was after I had left primary school that the Court Line went belly-up (a quick Google gives the date as Aug 1974 - how does a holiday company go bust during the peak season??? Wow, 43 years ago) What, you mean like Monarch? |
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Post by ChrisM on Oct 20, 2017 20:50:05 GMT
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No, I never wanted to be the Monarch. I don't like headgear and I would never get used to wearing a crown......
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Post by Big Blue on Oct 20, 2017 21:21:33 GMT
I blame my lot on being a lazy fat bastard. Careers advice was never any good. At my school you were to be a doctor, an engineer or an abject failure. Those were the choices from what I could make out. I went to the interview at UCL when in the Upper 6th and looked at all my would-be fellow students and wrote to my mother in the US that I was not going to university. I eventually went at 21, mainly to avoid work.
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Post by Ben on Oct 21, 2017 12:29:06 GMT
While luck does play a part in where you end up, I also agree that life is what you make of it.
I've always wanted to work with cars. In my teens I realised that I wanted to be a motoring writer as I seemed to enjoy writing.
Now, writing isn't what you would call a 'regular' job around these parts. My mum wanted me to be a teacher. My dad was more open, as long as I got something decent.
I stuck at it. I read up and found out how motoring writers got their starts. There was a lot of hanging out at events, talking to people and just general observation.
A random message I sent on Facebook to the ex-editor of the website where I'm working now resulted in a small freelance writing gig while I was still studying. I worked hard at it, showed commitment (I was writing seven days a week), and after I graduated they quickly offered me a full time role. It has snowballed from there since.
So in a way, I decided my own destiny.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2017 15:57:37 GMT
So in a way, I decided my own destiny. You reep what you sow. For good or bad. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 23, 2017 7:33:06 GMT
While luck does play a part in where you end up, I also agree that life is what you make of it. I've always wanted to work with cars. In my teens I realised that I wanted to be a motoring writer as I seemed to enjoy writing. Now, writing isn't what you would call a 'regular' job around these parts. My mum wanted me to be a teacher. My dad was more open, as long as I got something decent. I stuck at it. I read up and found out how motoring writers got their starts. There was a lot of hanging out at events, talking to people and just general observation. A random message I sent on Facebook to the ex-editor of the website where I'm working now resulted in a small freelance writing gig while I was still studying. I worked hard at it, showed commitment (I was writing seven days a week), and after I graduated they quickly offered me a full time role. It has snowballed from there since. So in a way, I decided my own destiny. I admire you, Ben, for making your dream come true. When you announced years ago you wanted to be a motoring journal I was a bit skeptical that you could make it happen but you stuck at it and made it happen for you. Good on you. On a similar note Blarno wanted to change his career and work for a manufacturer of motor vehicles and achieved his ambition as well. I doff my cap in his direction as well. It can't have been easy. I've never managed such an impressive career switch although about fifteen years ago I felt I was getting into a bit of a rut and in danger of being pigeon-holed jobwise so I did some extra qualifications in the evening over a three year period and that lead to much better opportunities that I've benefited from immensely. |
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Post by ChrisM on Oct 23, 2017 8:33:36 GMT
I admire you, Ben, for making your dream come true. On a similar note Blarno wanted to change his career and work for a manufacturer of motor vehicles and achieved his ambition as well. I doff my cap in his direction as well. It can't have been easy. +1 to both the above. OTOH..... Alonso has made some career moves that have undoubtedly blunted his success; Hamilton decided to move from Mercedes at a time when very many thought it was a semi-crazy thing to do.... in hindsight it turned out to have been a stroke of genius. I wonder what would have become of him if he'd stayed at McLaren? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 11:51:38 GMT
He'd be a rapper?
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Post by PetrolEd on Oct 23, 2017 12:03:20 GMT
But Alonso has a habit of making poor decisions. No doubt he was instrumental in getting McLaren to rid themselves of Honda, what's the betting the Honda is the engine to beat next year and the Renault a pile of poop.
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