Looks like Obama beating up a kid.
Looks like Obama beating up a kid.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
Yeah hopefully my big screen will last for 10 more years (fat chance).
I'm actually trying to lateral over to a government facility (won't name which) and maybe in coupla years get out of telecom altogether. Some other things are starting to come together for me.
We just got a new contract for 3 more years and just averted a strike.
Congrats on the promote. :bratspy:
If you bought a house over here (even in the DC area) it would cost you chump change. Euro > Dollar more than ever nowadays.
Hell Europe is snatching some our NBA players ffs.
Good luck with the career change, I hope that works out for you.
On property, one of the lassies that works in my office just bought a place in Florida. She reckoned that the exchange rate was so good that it would be wrong not to. That and your housing market being all over the place.
My plan is to stay where I am just now. I need this size of house with the big family. Ultimately I will sell up tho'. When I do I intend buying a house on the west coast of Scotland and another (maybe a flat (apartment)) in the city. I'll be able to do that easily from the sale of this place. Have some left over if truth be told.
That's flexible tho', I may go west coast and foreign (Mallorca or the like) or city and foreign. It just depends what we feel like at the time.
The good thing about the promotion is not just the money just now, which is nice. It's another £3,000 ($5,500) onto the pension and about £,9000 ($16,500) onto the lump sum payment.
Since I had already worked out that with no mortgage or anything to pay I would have plenty of spending money that's just extra sweets. And that doesn't include the state pension, which I now don't get until I'm 66 (eventually it'll be 68 but i'm old enough for that not to effect me). I intend doing the retiring thing at 60 (at the very latest).
Last edited by Sextent; 08-15-2008 at 09:53 PM.
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