yes i am doing my job because of money problem and this is not my dreamed job.

Semi retired on 80 hours a week
 

I have been in the hotel/restaurant trade for 35 years and was unhappy, so took a new course doing similar thing in events management and despite being semi retired I enjoy an 80 to 100 hours a week very regurlaly. Different venue and people every day, best of all as I work freelance I invoice for every hour worked, every mile travelled! Great as well that I can pick and choose what I do and when I do it

Work / Life balance
 

I always figured that I would have some kids and then see the world later on when they were old enough. Now, I have a job that is not too bad 4 days a week and I don't work too hard. The problem is that although I get to see the kids I don't have the big cash and holidays are infrequent.
Trying to balance everything is really hard and if I took a job that paid really well, the kids would never see me and we would drift apart - which is the last thing I would ever want

Well I love organising trail riding events in Spain, which I've been doing for the last three years. Now the Uk government has added five more years contributions to get a full pension, so I've gone 'legit' and now I'm a UK business :thumbup1:

Regs

Simon

Wait for the 2016 pension bomb shell, if you were final salary, as I was or in another company scheme, the suggestion is that you paid a reduced national insurance amount so you may end up having less years then you think. Hence me paying class two subs even though I could opt out due to what I earn part-time.

Already out of the final salary scheme . . .

Ta for the info though :)

Simon

I am pretty happy in my job :) but I actually dont work in the job I've did my appreticeship (computer specialist). I work as a travel agent now and have around 3 month of payed holidays (due to overtime and 6 days weeks plus 5 weeks of normal holidays). Therefore I work quite a lot but in a great job with good people and I have the possibility to travel a lot. Its not big money in this industry but I used to earn a lot and it didnt make me happy...therefore I rather work in a job I like as long as I can pay my bills, my motorbike gadgets and my travels than earning loads and hating every day of the week bier

you'll never find a man on his deathbed saying, 'you know, I wish I spent less time with my kids'

I have been a truckdriver for 22 years. Drove around in Europe.
Now, since a few weeks I don'v drive anymore and started to work as a mechanic with trucks ans busses. And I like it very much. I work less houres, have more days off in a year and all that at 200m from my house. OK, I have less money at the end off the month but now I have more time to plan my next biketrip and I am more relaxed on my job and at home.

When I finished working the Mrs said she was amazed how quick I made the transition from working to a clock to now not having to.
Have just spent a fantastic month staying in montenegro, now on way home, next time will do Albania and move on from there.
Living out of my side cases , don't miss home at all. I consider myself extremely lucky, am young enough to enjoy it, have a decent pension and am OK money wise, have a disability but am buggered if I will let that stop me, on the bright side it let's me Park in reserved bays lol.
Now what's that Touring Ted bloke up to at the moment??

Earn while you sleep...
 

At sixty eight, I am arguably one of the senior members of the HUBB.
And, I have realized that there are 3 ways to legally earn money.

1. Buy something that is needed and wanted and sell it for more than paid for it.

2. Provide a needed and wanted service.

3. Manipulate various currencies so that your investment in one currency
results in a profit in another currency.

Once I understood how the majority of people earn money - excluding the "trustafarians" , those poor souls who have inherited money from the past performance of relatives and wander the world in a vain attempt to figure out who they are.... as they have not actually participated in earning a living like the rest of us, a task that instills self confidence and integrity....- excluding the "trustafarians" who more often than not often dress in the garb of the foreign locals in a desperate attempt to obliterate their personal reality and include themselves ..... in some group, any group and when that fails as it always does turn to drugs, alcohol and sex, ........ to distract themselves from having to consider who they are and how they got there.

I reasoned that if I could combine all three ways of legally earning money that it would be much better than committing to one or the other of the three ways. Here, I will share with you the results of my ambition to combine all three ways I determined that money is earned legally.

1. Discover what is needed and wanted and buy it, for example parking spaces in a parking high rise in a big city where, by your own research you discover, there is a great need for safe and secure parking. The parking spaces we purchased have increased in value by one to two thousand dollars a year.

2. Offer what you have purchased , parking spaces, to provide the needed and wanted service of safe and secure parking.

3. Do this in a country where your own past performance money / social security/pension is in a currency that can be traded for the local currency at a great advantage to you......and collect a currency from your clients that also can be exchanged on the local market for a profit beyond the profit of providing the service itself.

4. Make sure you have a trustworthy, foolproof way of administering your investment and collecting the payments from your clients. For example, have your clients deposit directly into a local bank account via an ATM etc and thus eliminate anyone handling your money.... The idea is to do all this without expending any of your own time and energy, thus you earn money while you sleep.

oh, I almost forgot, marry an intelligent, beautiful partner who is much younger than you and can carry on long after you are gone. see photo

comments welcome....

Eat , Drink and invest wisely

xfiltrate

I'm in the "means to an end" camp, but I wish I've been the guy that hated his job before too and it sucks. We spend so much time at work and doing work, that it can really drain the life out of you if you let it.

Sadly, my life is pretty much all drained out! Let's keep paying those bills! :(

Gotta stack that paper! Even on the weekend:(

Love my jobs (not all aspects of it) but I'm also excited that it is going to end. It creates new possibilities, like traveling.

Life is not only about working, it's about having fun in the first place.