05-01-2018, 09:14 AM
(04-30-2018, 07:48 PM)Kingy Wrote: If you get sent for a tin of striped paint on your first day ...
Congrats on the job. Do you get to wear big boy pants now?
Best thing I ever did was set up my mortgage so I paid it off before I was 50. I'd recommend that to anyone as that's around the time of life that shit can happen (as I can testify over the last year plus) and having no financial worries means on (big) thing less to worry about.
Enjoy your job. If it's shite - give it a year then move on. Life is too short to have little/ no enjoyment in something which will take up so much of your time.
Don't be a doormat. Staying on and working is ok, but don't make it the norm. Life/ short - you get the idea.
No striped paint but I did have to sit through 6 hours of Health & Safety videos with tests at the end that a seven year old could accomplish! I've pretty much presumed that if I want to retire before the age of 80 that I will need to have my own pot, so I'm planning to set up some standing orders after the first paycheck - any recommendations on types of pension plan or savings accounts to look into?
I'm hoping the work will be fun, I had a hand in creating the role before I started it so I'm hoping it'll be the perfect role (give or take a couple of things) for a few years. I'm hoping to take advantage of some foreign travel here (it's been suggested I may need to take a trip to see a guy in one of our foreign offices before he leaves to do a handover - just a shame he works in the Edinburgh office and not Dubai... but maybe the next guy!)
As for big boy pants, no, not yet, mainly cos the Tax Man is stealing far more than I would like
still, I had a good run of non-tax-paying so it's time to put a little back I suppose...