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Kev L wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2017 11:21 am Oooooh tetchy wee man!

eatpasta wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:23 pm I worked in television for many years and loved it but it was too many hours. The money was awesome though.

Finally had a baby and moved out of the city for a low paying computer job but I actually get to see my wife and kid now!

Watty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:37 pm

eatpasta wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:23 pm I worked in television for many years and loved it but it was too many hours. The money was awesome though.

Finally had a baby and moved out of the city for a low paying computer job but I actually get to see my wife and kid now!

That is priceless mate

eatpasta wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:11 pm leaving my old job meant being being a lot more broke a lot more of the time but what good ever came from a dad being away from the family that he provided lots of money to?

None is right!

I had a few friends growing up that had money and their dads were never around. It's a bad recipe.

I wanna be around for my kids and my wife. Why else would you have them?

Loo Kahs wrote:

eatpasta wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:11 pm

Looking on the bright side, one year in London and I have confirmed for myself that life is bullshit and a rather ironic one. Get on the tube one day and you are surrounded by faces of misery rushing to their shitty jobs. You will see adverts everywhere for fancy, expensive mattresses that will solve your tiredness, or Air BnB managers to manage your portfolio of properties for the ripping off of tenants... and we just continue as it is without ever stopping and having a look around us.

Eh

Amen to that brother. "Work to live" not "live to work"! Find a balance and enjoy your life. We only get one shot.....

lloydie wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2017 6:13 pmwonker

Solarboy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:49 pm

Loo Kahs wrote:

eatpasta wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:11 pm

Looking on the bright side, one year in London and I have confirmed for myself that life is bullshit and a rather ironic one. Get on the tube one day and you are surrounded by faces of misery rushing to their shitty jobs. You will see adverts everywhere for fancy, expensive mattresses that will solve your tiredness, or Air BnB managers to manage your portfolio of properties for the ripping off of tenants... and we just continue as it is without ever stopping and having a look around us.

Eh

Amen to that brother. "Work to live" not "live to work"! Find a balance and enjoy your life. We only get one shot.....

Loo Kahs wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2017 9:00 am

eatpasta wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 10:11 pm leaving my old job meant being being a lot more broke a lot more of the time but what good ever came from a dad being away from the family that he provided lots of money to?

None is right!

I had a few friends growing up that had money and their dads were never around. It's a bad recipe.

I wanna be around for my kids and my wife. Why else would you have them?

Mh... I always struggled to understand that. It has only been a year since I've moved to London, but it's crazy to see the hours a lot of people work. Regardless of whether they have a partner and children... don't people have other things to do in life? Hobbies, interests, family or friends?

I start on time and as far as possible always try to leave on time (meaning that I'm first to leave...) and even then it does not leave me with much time for other things. Spend time together chatting with my other half, get food going, eat, chill and it's bed time. I can't comprehend what people do that stay in the office till 8 or later everyday. It literally must be just a routine of sleeping and working.

As you said, you may be money rich but time poor and what good is that?

And the children thing makes the above even worse. Makes me wonder whether people do it 'because that's what you do' rather than out of genuine want for kids. What life is it if they cannot see you and you cannot spend time with them? I don't understand.

Looking on the bright side, one year in London and I have confirmed for myself that life is bullshit and a rather ironic one. Get on the tube one day and you are surrounded by faces of misery rushing to their shitty jobs. You will see adverts everywhere for fancy, expensive mattresses that will solve your tiredness, or Air BnB managers to manage your portfolio of properties for the ripping off of tenants... and we just continue as it is without ever stopping and having a look around us.

Eh

eatpasta wrote:

Solarboy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:49 pm

Loo Kahs wrote: Amen to that brother. "Work to live" not "live to work"! Find a balance and enjoy your life. We only get one shot.....

Loo Kahs wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2017 9:00 am

Mh... I always struggled to understand that. It has only been a year since I've moved to London, but it's crazy to see the hours a lot of people work. Regardless of whether they have a partner and children... don't people have other things to do in life? Hobbies, interests, family or friends?

I start on time and as far as possible always try to leave on time (meaning that I'm first to leave...) and even then it does not leave me with much time for other things. Spend time together chatting with my other half, get food going, eat, chill and it's bed time. I can't comprehend what people do that stay in the office till 8 or later everyday. It literally must be just a routine of sleeping and working.

As you said, you may be money rich but time poor and what good is that?

And the children thing makes the above even worse. Makes me wonder whether people do it 'because that's what you do' rather than out of genuine want for kids. What life is it if they cannot see you and you cannot spend time with them? I don't understand.

Looking on the bright side, one year in London and I have confirmed for myself that life is bullshit and a rather ironic one. Get on the tube one day and you are surrounded by faces of misery rushing to their shitty jobs. You will see adverts everywhere for fancy, expensive mattresses that will solve your tiredness, or Air BnB managers to manage your portfolio of properties for the ripping off of tenants... and we just continue as it is without ever stopping and having a look around us.

Eh

it was fun for a while to have a high profile job, see my name in the credits of a #1 TV show. I'm proud of the work that I did but I'm more proud of being a dad and perhaps maybe someday a great dad.

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Solarboy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:05 am

eatpasta wrote:

Solarboy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:49 pm

it was fun for a while to have a high profile job, see my name in the credits of a #1 TV show. I'm proud of the work that I did but I'm more proud of being a dad and perhaps maybe someday a great dad.

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Okay, I have to ask, what was the TV show? Do we have a star in our midsts?