Your circle of friends & occupations

[Jez]

Thinking this today when cruising around on a day with no work....in your circle of friends what is the general area's of occupation, or is there none and you socialise in a mixed group?

I was just thinking that out of my circle of friends none of us have permanent jobs, i am probably the closest in that i am on salary, but contracted out short term to various places, and do a lot of adhoc overtime additional work in strange hours and often have weekdays off etc, so its like being self employed almost.

Everyone else who i spend time with have their own ltd companies, which seems a little strange that we have all gone that way. Most of my friends have actually gone into trades which seems like an excellent way to go in terms of earnings, sadly i am in a position now where i could not take the salary hit of the training period required. Its sort of made me wonder who fills all the offices of the country, and who works in all the shops and bars and stuff, as i dont know of anyone whatsoever in a permanent place of work. Maybe its my weird town, everything is strange here :/

 

[Jez]

My friends do all sorts from managing director of ICI to leader of the opposition. It makes me wonder just who does stuff like contracting and having a small ltd company, maybe its just my strange town.

I am not suggesting any form of employment is "better" than another. A lot of people in office jobs will be very happy im sure and will earn big salaries, and likewise a lot of people with little ltd companies dont do very well at all and probably end up on the dole. I just dont seem to know of anyone with a permanent job, seems a bit strange that we have all gone this way.

 

[Jez]

Seriously Foxy, whats the purpose of these replies?

grrr

 

[Jez]

The only one I can think of actually owns his little country pub so I guess that's a little different.

Seriously envious, i'd so love to be in that position

 

[Jez]

Ha. I used to think that, until my parents went and stayed there for a while and realised it was too tempting to drink all the time. He would just drink all day and ultimately it will end in a short life, but hey, what a life.

I dont think id be like that, but hey its hard to possibly say unless i was in that position. I would love a country food orientated pub though. Having said that i guess it would be an immense battle to keep afloat a lot of the time unless you were in a very desirable location. I bet a lof of these places dont do a huge amount of business.

 

[Jez]

Lots of hugely mixed groups of friends being mentioned here, something which i bet makes things quite interesting. I guess with mine its that none of us really knew what we wanted to do, so we all copied eachother and as a result of working for ourselves havnt really met anyone else.

We all missed the uni boat due to being too damn lazy and being involved in other things at that age. Not sure if i regret that or not.

 

[Jez]

That's the problem, aye. He does alright though, seems to be in one of those areas where whilst it's quite secluded, the people have nothing else to spend their stupidly excessive salaries on and/or farmers with flourishing farms.

I'm taking it off topic, I'll post my circle on friends when I can be bothered

No worries at all, its very interesting to hear of someone with experience of what ive always viewed as an almost perfect life

Connected with my original post, i dont know _anyone_ (in real life) who went to uni either thinking about it

 

[Jez]

Apart from yourself? IIRC you went for a wee while? I recall seeing pictures of you outside halls with people taking partin initiations?

Yeah my parents pretty much forced me to go, i ended up spending 2-3 days per week there and then back with people down here the rest of the time. Needless to say i didnt last long and no work was ever done!