Chindie Posted June 24, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2010 I don't think about retirement. To be honest I don't think that far ahead with anything. I'm not a planner. I take things as they come. Edit - I guess I consider what may come. But I don't specifically plan out my life or have any real overarching aims. There are dreams I guess, but I know I probably will never attain them. I have a friend who has a kind of ideal scenario life plan. Lots of people do I guess but she is doing everything now to try to achieve it. Fair play to her. I just couldn't do it. She wants the usual things, the husband the children the house etc... but she has them detailed to degrees that seem almost ridiculous. She has a specific number of children she wants, she has a specfic career path, she has a specific period in which she wants to push away from the career and take to being a mother, she has an overarching aim of doing good in the world for those poorest in a myriad of very specific and considered ways (she's genuinely researched these ideas, they slip my mind recently but she could reel off the facts and figures and how she could help and so on). I'm talking stuff like running a school in a Third World country. I couldn't do that. I don't wish to regiment my life into a life plan, even an idealised one like my friend. I've been thinking about these kind of things recently just because I'm now finally in the real world and the first footsteps to my life are tentatively taking place now. Retirement is a far off distanced land that I can barely comprehend. The only thing I do know from that future is that Bulmers will still be shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Not as shite as Carling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I don't think about retirement. To be honest I don't think that far ahead with anything. I'm not a planner. I take things as they come. Seriously though, I don't really have plans, I mean, I have hopes like becoming a Dad, having a stable family, financially secure and what not. So I have overall aims but I have no plans in the way I can achieve such things, especially financially. I'm very much unsure of my future. Apart from one thing, I'm working 9-5 2 days a week after world cup finishes on tuesday and thursday's. That's the only thing I know what i'm doing with my life. Football? more education? proper job? what I want to do for a career? I have no clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 24, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2010 Not as shite as Carling I kinda hope I'll outlive the stuff. The people who drink it die out or something and they go bust. Something anyway to stop it lasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 25, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 25, 2010 I have a friend who has a kind of ideal scenario life plan. Lots of people do I guess but she is doing everything now to try to achieve it. Fair play to her. I just couldn't do it. She wants the usual things, the husband the children the house etc... but she has them detailed to degrees that seem almost ridiculous. She has a specific number of children she wants, she has a specfic career path, she has a specific period in which she wants to push away from the career and take to being a motherPeople who do this sort of thing just set themselves up for disappointment and frustration. AVFC-Prideofbrum has it right - have general aims and desires, but don't try to timetable it or assume it will happen. The kids thing is a classic. So often women (and sometimes men) have their kids all pre-planned and then they turn out to be infertile, or get divorced or some such. When the missus and I got married we agreed that we quite liked the idea of having a family, but it wasn't the reason we were together. Our stance was "if it happens, fine, if it doesn't, well there are advantages to being childless, too". It happened. It was fine. I never planned to work in I.T. (it barely existed when I graduated!), but stumbled into it and it's worked out OK. I've paid my pension subs for years without even thinking about it until about six months ago, but I'm looking forward to retiring now. Maybe I'm just bad at planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Maybe I'm just bad at planning. Or just quite lucky in life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted June 25, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 25, 2010 Just found out (via a tearful phone call from my sister) that my nephew has passed his Law degree with 2:1. Have to say he's really deserved it too as he's worked his socks off the last few years. Absolutely chuffed to bits for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 25, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 25, 2010 Maybe I'm just bad at planning. Or just quite lucky in life? Probably both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 mmmm indian food and cobra beer be good. not really a beer drinker but this shit is nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabby15 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Wearing a Villa shirt on the way to play football and a bloke in a white van drove by and shouted "Up The Villa!" Great stuff 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSufferingVilla Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Just found out (via a tearful phone call from my sister) that my nephew has passed After reading that far I wasn't expecting a happy ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWalletInspector Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Wearing a Villa shirt on the way to play football and a bloke in a white van drove by... After reading that far I wasn't expecting a happy ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 AVFC-Prideofbrum has it right That's a FAIL right away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briggaman Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Turned on that crappy James Corden show and Holly Willoughby is looking niiiiice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWalletInspector Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Turned on that crappy James Corden show and Holly Willobooby is looking niiiiice. Was just about to post this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Thats the only reason she is on that shitty show, its **** arselicking crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Thats the only reason she is on that shitty show, its **** arselicking crap I would like to speak in support of this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briggaman Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Who cares what it is?! She was looking bloody good. The fat shit (Corden) can go on all he wants but my eyes were glued to Holly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellybean_25 Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Great start to the day. Dead and slightly solid goldfish on my kitchen worktop. His name was Percy. To make it worse, I told my mom. She could not get her head around it jumping/leaping out of the tank and asked if it was a possibility that my boyfriend had done it. She must think I'm living with a reet frickin wierdo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 suicide bid is my guess. Possibly a french fish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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