Sick note

MargaretR said:
People who are in work should realise
you are not your occupation so when you are asked 'what do you do?', don't say 'I am a xxxxxx'
...better to say 'I am a wage slave' :D
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No no no! Don't be that cynical!

I'm self employed and work as many hours as the need for sleep will allow. I love it, it gives me purpose, and when I shuffle off the perch in 50 years or so I want to know that I've left the vaguest imprint on the world by trying to make things better every day.

I run two businesses, one in videography and one in landscape gardening. I'm half indoors and half outdoors every week and it's fantastic to be able to see a physical end result after I'm finished in both lines of work.

Being forced to give up work would probably finish me off, I don't know how to do anything else!
 
Ken Moss said:
No no no! Don't be that cynical!
Being forced to give up work would probably finish me off, I don't know how to do anything else!
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Work is a means to an end - income for survival.
If you happen to enjoy it, you are fortunate.
I did too, for most of my career.
Spare a little time in your busy life to plan for retirement activities.
Retirement may arrive earlier than you expect.
 
MargaretR said:
Work is a means to an end - income for survival.
If you happen to enjoy it, you are fortunate.
I did too, for most of my career.
Spare a little time in your busy life to plan for retirement activities.
Retirement may arrive earlier than you expect.
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You're right about the means to an end and you're also right about being fortunate to enjoy it. I wake up every day knowing that something fantastic awaits me either in my home office or in the garden of one of my regulars. I have a fantastic wife and a nice little house, life tastes good.

'Retirement' is still one of those words that, whilst hopefully still being a long way off, is close enough to cause discomfort. The bride and I have made good provision for retirement and I do plan to enjoy it but I'm young and full of enthusiasm for everything at the moment so I'm going to enjoy that first.
 
MargaretR said:
Spare a little time in your busy life to plan for retirement activities.
Retirement may arrive earlier than you expect.
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I did.

Paid my all pensions etc, and planned to spend my dotage painting in Brittany, drinking wine, and being a lecherous English eccentric.

Now my only hope of artistic release is to become a human brush.

A tool in the next Yves Klein's mit.

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:D
 
Ken Moss said:
You're right about the means to an end and you're also right about being fortunate to enjoy it. I wake up every day knowing that something fantastic awaits me either in my home office or in the garden of one of my regulars. I have a fantastic wife and a nice little house, life tastes good.

'Retirement' is still one of those words that, whilst hopefully still being a long way off, is close enough to cause discomfort. The bride and I have made good provision for retirement and I do plan to enjoy it but I'm young and full of enthusiasm for everything at the moment so I'm going to enjoy that first.
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Sounds like ya got it just right,Ken.:)
 
My dad planned his retirement at fifty.

Did just that...and was dead at fifty one.

Happily we don't know what's just round the corner, and some things you just can't plan for.
 
Ken Moss said:
No no no! Don't be that cynical!

I'm self employed and work as many hours as the need for sleep will allow. I love it, it gives me purpose, and when I shuffle off the perch in 50 years or so I want to know that I've left the vaguest imprint on the world by trying to make things better every day.

I run two businesses, one in videography and one in landscape gardening. I'm half indoors and half outdoors every week and it's fantastic to be able to see a physical end result after I'm finished in both lines of work.

Being forced to give up work would probably finish me off, I don't know how to do anything else!
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Believe me Ken it wouldn't finish you off, in time you would come to terms with it and then cut your cloth accordingly, its not easy, especially at first, but believe me you DO get there in the end
 
jaysay said:
Believe me Ken it wouldn't finish you off, in time you would come to terms with it and then cut your cloth accordingly, its not easy, especially at first, but believe me you DO get there in the end
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I agree, you do make the best of it.

I never thought I'd move back up here, but that's been the best thing that's happened to me.

I also never thought I'd pass my time by becoming a semi-professional thorn in the side of those who demand a good prick.

:D
 
garinda said:
I agree, you do make the best of it.

I never thought I'd move back up here, but that's been the best thing that's happened to me.

I also never thought I'd pass my time by becoming a semi-professional thorn in the side of those who demand a good prick.

:D
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Never heard you called a prick before Grainda:rolleyes:
 
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