£150 quid with Jetstar Asia.. Ho chi min to Darwin. You've planted a seed.

You're going to get me into trouble..

Dave.... You drop bear ass monkey. I just looked at the Darwin weather.. Haha Torrential rain storms 24/7 ;)

Bit o rain never stopped the beer fridge or BBQ from working mate!

That's a bloody good point mate. Just need to get Stan and Andy a flight and we've got a reunion on our hands.

Well you'd better get you ass up to Ho Chi Min and on that plane, you'll have to represent Stan & Andy!

Not even an Xmas card either :rolleyes:

Taken from the OP's original post;
"This interests me.....

I always assumed most people hated their jobs. I've never found a job I liked.

Some have been better than others and some are fine for a while."

I have always looked foreward to retirement, even though my final job was quite well paid & l got to travel within the UK (I may have stayed there other than my manager was a complete dick head!

I retired at 54 & due to that ugly statistic called "marrying a Yank" I got to travel in an RV from Cnada to Mexico with many diversions in between.
I am no longer married so l get to live cheaply in Missouri & use my savings to travel to places like Nepal/Sri Lanks/Thailand & as often as possible back to my beloved UK/Europe (l went back twice last year!)

Going back to generalise work, it does infringe on travel, but for most people you have to work to make money so that you can travel.....:palm:

Well that's an odd one: I haven't had time for HUBB stuff lately so didn't see Ted's 'issues' in SEA, but I've always thought that backpacking sucks, mainly because so many just seem to follow the same route, with rip-offs to match . .

On the other hand why should Rich Kids from the West complain when a very poor person trues to male a few bucks - after all that's often all it amounts to . . .

I remember a friend getting train tickets in Delhi and was overcharged', i.e. undercharged by about £40 for a massive rail journey. He thought it was great until months later he realised that the ticket main could have lost his job, and about three months pay fine for the error . . .

Everything in its due perspective methinks :)

Regs

Simon

What I want to know is what's Mr Ted doing at the moment?

I have been back in the UK about a month now. Just registered myself as a sole trader and gone freelance. Planning to build some custom bikes and see if I can turn a profit. Also going to fabricate some non bike related stuff too. Also, might give journalism another shot. Early days !!! We'll see.

I've recently set up as a Limited Liability Partnership, which is in effect a sole trader but there's two of us :)

But I also have a brillliant accountant who is into the custom scene, so if you want a recommendation just send me a PM

Simon

Could be a vacancy at the BBC shortly. :rolleyes2:

Mind you, Touring Ted, The Hamster and Captain Slow sounds more like a 70's hippie road movie. :rofl:

Haha hell yeah. I could be the next Clarkson.

Aim higher. Jeffrey Archer sold more books and more people watched Michael Fish on the telly!


This thread is like the "what bike" one. I need to change my vote. Free career advice; if you are basically lazy and uninterested in anything commercially valuable become a technical expert. Far better to be senior specialist sub-minion than minion in charge of sub-minions.


I wonder how that Hamster bloke see's his place in history? 2-i-c to Clarkson. Money must be good to stand that.


Andy

Kind of surprised to see that so many people genuinely enjoy their jobs. Good for you guys. bier