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| #21  28-Feb-2005, 19:53 | |||
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| #23 28-Feb-2005, 22:08 | ||||
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| My first real business was selling pens outside Chadwell heath bingo hall to ladies in the que. The fact that I got the pens from the bins at the back meant that it didn’t last to long. (First lesson, always supply a quality product) I was 10 years old at the time and was also helping out with a milk round a paper round and a Vernon pools round. At the age of thirteen I started working in a dress factory as cutter. (Second lesson, they may not always be the fairer sex) At fourteen I was asked to leave school and went to work on a building site with no qualifications and a severe case of Dyslexia (lessen three your back is not fully developed at the age of fourteen) At sixteen I got in to house painting in the city with a company called Ceanwalls they specialised in high class work for amongst others David frost and John Paul Getty, who at the time I worked for him was one of the richest men in the would. His son would come and chat to me about his old man and show me his missing ear. His wife suffered from polio and did not like to be seen in public, so the butler would take her their after hours to shop alone (Lesson four, how the other half live and don’t even trust your old man were moneys concerned) David Frost would come out of his house Pi**ed get in to his car and smash his way out of his parking space leaving the wreckage of the cars parked in front and behind, this he did on a daily basis for the eight weeks we were there. (Lots of money No F***ing respect) I have had my own businesses for the last twenty years now with varying degrees of success and failure A retail window company with fifty staff (lesson five, you can turnover millions and earn nothing) My current business in commercial windows has been the most stable and profitable for me but has taken a tremendous toll on my family’s and my personal time with its demands. For the last two years I have been studying for my R Y A Yacht master, I have been sailing all my life working my way on to boats, racing other peoples boats for them. I intend to retire once my son is finely on he’s way and go for a very long sail in the med. Life is what you make it, when I got no money I pull me horns in sell me toys get stuck in again, if you do the day comes when you get your toys back. If you don’t then I don’t know what happens coz I’ve always dun that. Now if life was strait forward that would be it, but this is life so whether I have money or not, wear my Ducati is concerned I will totally disregard my personal flushness and will lie to my wife, beg borrow or seal any item of good quality Bling that I can lay my hands on. Its not money that maters on here it’s the bikes, if someone goes out and spends an obscene amount of money on a Ducati, I for one would love to see it and if someone’s got Two bob and an old shi*er I want to see that to and go on the same ride out, drink bear in the same pub and talk bikes, now wears that fu**ing sun>  |
| #26 28-Feb-2005, 23:53 | |||
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| #27 01-Mar-2005, 09:21 | |||
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It’s from a Monty Python sketch about how hard our parents had it. I think I am very fortunate I work a shift, well at present anyway, that gives me an enviable amount of time at home. The down side is that the pay ain't brilliant, very difficult to have both, but it’s the way I like it. At present I’m at home doing a lot of baby sitting and have been for the last couple of years which can make winter a drag sometimes when you’re stuck in the house day after day, tiered because of the shifts looking after 2 board kids under the age of 4. But I still wouldn’t trade it for more money, as a bloke I feel I’m quite close to my kids and I hope that will work out to my advantage when they are older, and we do have a laugh! Previous to this I had all the time in the world to do the things that I wanted to do, with in the realms of what I could afford, rebuild a couple of old British bikes and went to all the places I liked going to at times when everyone else was at work, great! Restored a Victorian terraced house then moved to my present house and completed that. I love my time off and it’s worth five grand a year to me. Unfortunately nothing lasts for ever and the shift Patten I work is about to change, my wife also works shifts and I haven’t even thought about how we are going to balance our lives, then I will have reasonable pay with crap hours so I might have something to moan about. Anyway we need wealthy people to buy those expensive trick bit for there bikes and then sell them cheap to me when they’ve finished with them on ebay! I like bling if I was considerably richer than yow I would have lots of it, I would also pay to have some one service my bike just to stop my Missis moaning about how much time I spend playing with it, I wouldn’t need my pass stamped then every time I try and go for a blast! |
| #28 01-Mar-2005, 09:32 | ||||
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| #29 01-Mar-2005, 11:20 | ||||
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spot on  |
| #30 01-Mar-2005, 11:59 | ||||
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sorry, not being offensive but thats tosh. Not everyone is envious of wealth. some are v happy with their lot and actually (belive it or not, your chioce) genuinely welcome success for others without the need to contain the green eyed monster....not me you understand  |
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