Just want to be minted.

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Why don't we start a pyramid scheme to get each other minted.

I volunteer to go first, please direct all donations here and await your turn.

NooBish AbbZ said:
Of course we want to be minted. I'm on a decent wage imo (effectively 45k or so) but there are people who work a couple of desks down doing a very similar job earning upwards of £80k easily :( Nevertheless I lvoe my job so :)
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You need to get to negotiating that raise then.
 
I do want to be 'minted'. But to me it isn't 'just' minted. I don't particularly want to just win money or be given it (although I would have course not turn it down). To me it's important that I earn the money myself and build a lifestyle around getting that money and using it wisely. So money is part of the journey rather than the end point of the journey.
 
Only way I would class myself 'minted' is to win the Lottery.

Work to live, not live to work.

Find a job you love and i'll never work a day in your life.

I love my job and I'm not doing to badly, but enough would never be enough..
 
D.P. said:
The Op has got to be trolling

"jobs that just seem extremely difficult and taxing that wouldn't really be worth the hassle.'

Be thankful you are earning 23k with that attitude.
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sadly there are plenty of people out there earning ten times that amount with the same sort of attitude, can think of quite a few contractors with a clock on/clock off and general minimum effort type approach
 
I'm not trolling. How have I got an attitude? Realistically whilst 23k isn't small it's still not brilliant in this climate with the way living expenses is. And anything saying I don't want to work hard or anything of the sort are completely wrong and obviously not wearing their specs because I've said the oppsite in this thread.
 
dowie said:
sadly there are plenty of people out there earning ten times that amount with the same sort of attitude, can think of quite a few contractors with a clock on/clock off and general minimum effort type approach
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I learned quite some time ago that working hard is irrelevant. What's important is the value that you deliver to the business. I wish I'd known that when a lot younger though.

For example in my current role, although quite busy, it's the knowledge and experience I have which I am being paid for. People come to me to ask for advice and I can give an opinion on the best approach, with suggestions about outcomes. Or people come to me and complain about something and through decades of experience I know how to coordinate others in the team to solve the issue while managing the relationship with the person complaining. I'm sure there are people working far harder than me nowadays but I'm not being paid for simply working hard.
 
willhub said:
I'm not trolling. How have I got an attitude? Realistically whilst 23k isn't small it's still not brilliant in this climate with the way living expenses is. And anything saying I don't want to work hard or anything of the sort are completely wrong and obviously not wearing their specs because I've said the oppsite in this thread.
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Agree, with prices in this country money goes less and less further. Maybe it's time to relocate to Thailand and live that bae life.
 
Hades said:
I learned quite some time ago that working hard is irrelevant. What's important is the value that you deliver to the business. I wish I'd know that when a lot younger though.
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Yup, though not even that in some cases, simply having some hard to find (and therefore expensive) knowledge is enough, at least one of the people I'm thinking of adds relatively little of value to the business but is simply required for some regulatory project. He'll very likely be gone once that project is finished.
 
dowie said:
Yup, though not even that in some cases, simply having some hard to find (and therefore expensive) knowledge is enough, at least one of the people I'm thinking of adds relatively little of value to the business but is simply required for some regulatory project. He'll very likely be gone once that project is finished.
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I was just about to add that - You work hard which gets you the knowledge which allows you to add value to the business. Certainly what I did - I have recently moved jobs and I'm now working hard again to gain the technical knowledge
 
Kreeeee said:
This is so true. I work about two days a week for a decent enough salary and while I could work five and make a packet why would I sacrifice the best years of my life just to work more?
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That's all well and good but it depends on your take home.

If I could get paid my current salary on 2/3 days work idno doubt be happier
 
Delvis said:
That's all well and good but it depends on your take home.

If I could get paid my current salary on 2/3 days work idno doubt be happier
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If you want it then work towards getting it. I had to engineer my career to get into this position and it wasn't just handed to me.

It's very rare to work part time in my field due to client expectations and the nature of projects, but I made sure that I was worth the hassle of hiring part-time.
 
Irish_Tom said:
One guy I know went on a two-week holiday with his family but got a call regarding some new business before their flight out. The hotel they were staying in didn’t have good internet so he checked himself into a different hotel and worked for the whole ‘holiday’. He barley saw his wife and kids but the contract was worth £££… to me, that’s a bit sad, missing out on a holiday with your kids ‘just’ to make a few extra grand.
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This rings true unfortunately. I work for myself and whenever I go on holiday I never fully stop working. Particularly early on when I was working alone, I would ultimately have to spend a fair bit of a holiday on the phone and email. I even had to disappear halfway through the tasting meal for my wedding last year - I spent 20 mins on the phone to a potential client, and had to leave my partner sat at the table on her own. That said, she's very understandable of the situation and encourages me to pursue opportunities. It normally works out in the end, as the upsides do tend to outweigh the downsides now that the business is fully up and running.
 
From a baseline of 'having enough to live', having more money just gives you more creative ways to spend / waste it, nothing more and nothing less.....
 
mrbazmondo said:
I've heard of quite a few people taking this route to a higher salary. Getting the increase, then side stepping out of management and staying on the same money. Its a good trick if you can do it.
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I didn't actually get a higher salary by going into management, it just seemed to be the natural progression from where I was. I'm effectively only slightly better off than before I had the management title. I guess the point was that managing people is a pain in the ass, but sometimes it's what you have to do to get ahead of the curve.

I was managing team(s) for about 5 years, so it wasn't a case of side-stepping as such. I just figured out that I hated it.

:)
 
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