Even the middle classes are beginning to feel the pinch

[NelsonP]

I earn significantly more than the people in this article but the payments on my home in Spain and the mooring fees and fuel on my motor yacht mean that even I sometimes struggle to find the money to spend on my kids school fees. Sometimes the poor buggers have to start a new academic year with last year's hockey stick (a big no no in their school).

Would you donate to my just giving page, so that my kids can have a proper education and a new hockey stick every year please?









NB I might have made some of the stuff above up

[Gecko1978]

NelsonP said:

I earn significantly more than the people in this article but the payments on my home in Spain and the mooring fees and fuel on my motor yacht mean that even I sometimes struggle to find the money to spend on my kids school fees. Sometimes the poor buggers have to start a new academic year with last year's hockey stick (a big no no in their school).

Would you donate to my just giving page, so that my kids can have a proper education and a new hockey stick every year please?









NB I might have made some of the stuff above up

you send your kids to state school is that what you mean an all so you can have a bigger boat

[superkartracer]

Gecko1978 said:

NelsonP said:

I earn significantly more than the people in this article but the payments on my home in Spain and the mooring fees and fuel on my motor yacht mean that even I sometimes struggle to find the money to spend on my kids school fees. Sometimes the poor buggers have to start a new academic year with last year's hockey stick (a big no no in their school).

Would you donate to my just giving page, so that my kids can have a proper education and a new hockey stick every year please?









NB I might have made some of the stuff above up

you send your kids to state school is that what you mean an all so you can have a bigger boat

I think he was taking the piss.

[jeff m2]

A management consultant with those current liabilities...and he only has a couple of hundred cash buffer.

[Gecko1978]

superkartracer said:

Gecko1978 said:

NelsonP said:

I earn significantly more than the people in this article but the payments on my home in Spain and the mooring fees and fuel on my motor yacht mean that even I sometimes struggle to find the money to spend on my kids school fees. Sometimes the poor buggers have to start a new academic year with last year's hockey stick (a big no no in their school).

Would you donate to my just giving page, so that my kids can have a proper education and a new hockey stick every year please?









NB I might have made some of the stuff above up

you send your kids to state school is that what you mean an all so you can have a bigger boat

I think he was taking the piss.

do you lol

[Derek Smith]

Alfa numeric said:

Gecko1978 said:

190k sounds a lot...

There's a reason for that

That's spot on of course.

Shouldn't we all live within our means?

[MajorMantra]

Cotty said:

I hate part timers, either do a full week or fk off.

What an odd thing to say. Choosing a better work-life balance in exchange for slightly less cash seems a perfectly rational thing to do. Why you'd bother hating people who do this I have no idea.

[hman]

Ah, the typical modern day middle class Londoner,

Massively over the top sense of entitlement.
Live way beyond their means to keep up appearances (its their parents that have all the money though really).
Very little if any common sense.
Everything in the telegraph is gospel.
They know better than you.
Car = VW Golf.

[JagLover]

TTwiggy said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Well, according to PH, almost everyone. But with the understanding that everyone on PH earns considerable more and will use threads like this to (un)subtly point it out.

Tonker's butler earns more than that.

[Richyboy]

WTF it's a VI piece for landlords, do these people even exist. I've got a buy to let lol so pumping out crap like this is no skin off my back.

[samuelellis]

BoRED S2upid said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Her coffee and cake buddies have probably been in the paper so that's why they are featured. Probably didn't realise they would be slated for it.

£1300 a week is a lot of hair appointments and manicures while the kids are in the best nursery money can buy.

If they have 1300quid a week spare and still say they are struggling then something is wrong. I dont even earn 1300 a month after the tax man has taken his cut and my Mrs does not earn that much more than me but we can enjoy nice things in life. It just means that we dont go on holiday that often and when we do its just a daytrip someware by car or spend stupidly thinking so sorry i have zero sympathy for people who have many thousands of pounds more income than we do who claim they cant cope.

Yes i would love to earn more so we could be more comfortable but at the moment we are keeping our heads above water

[Cotty]

MajorMantra said:

Cotty said:

I hate part timers, either do a full week or fk off.

What an odd thing to say. Choosing a better work-life balance in exchange for slightly less cash seems a perfectly rational thing to do. Why you'd bother hating people who do this I have no idea.

Because someone else has to do their work when they are not in.

[NelsonP]

Gecko1978 said:

do you lol

Ok, yeah I was.

Part taking the piss, part dreaming!

[vixen1700]

Speechless reading that link.

[Rude-boy]

MajorMantra said:

Cotty said:

I hate part timers, either do a full week or fk off.

What an odd thing to say. Choosing a better work-life balance in exchange for slightly less cash seems a perfectly rational thing to do. Why you'd bother hating people who do this I have no idea.

I don't agree with Cotty but i can tell you that quite often in my game having a part timer on the other side is almost a guarantee that it will take longer. Job share PTer's aren't so bad but then they just blame each other all the time.

There are some jobs in this World that are not suited to having a part timer in the role. Part time solicitors who don't job share can cause matters to go on far longer than they would with a full timer.

The other side of the coin is that one second they are regaling you with tails of their perfect work life balance and the next how they can't afford to do this that or the other and how life is so unfair.

[Alex]

I sympathise with them, seriously. When you earn that sort of money, you expect to have a comfortable life and be able to afford luxuries like private schooling. As this thread shows, everyone else thinks you can. But the truth is, you can't.

It says their take-home is £10k a month, which means they are paying £70k a year in tax. THAT'S the real disgrace. Be smart, work hard, and we'll confiscate your earnings.

[superkartracer]

Alex said:

IBe smart, work hard, and we'll confiscate your earnings.

Yes but they are not smart , i get paid far less , own a boat + nice house in sticks and 3 kids doing very well at school ( state and top grades ) and plenty of spare cash. Personally i think these people are morons or it's a bit of a lie .

Edited by superkartracer on Friday 20th November 14:22

[Cotty]

Rude-boy said:

I don't agree with Cotty but i can tell you that quite often in my game having a part timer on the other side is almost a guarantee that it will take longer. Job share PTer's aren't so bad but then they just blame each other all the time.

Takes longer as they are not there to do the job.

[Rude-boy]

Cotty said:

Takes longer as they are not there to do the job.

Which is my gripe. Never in the office when they are needed and it all takes longer.

Honestly i have no issue with those who are 4.5 days per week, I can even cope with the 4 day week ones but when you start getting to 3 or less there are some jobs that just do not suit part timers.

[jonny996]

the schooling is the killer for them, it is 25% of their pot....I know & am most likely one of them, lots of people that don't have expensive holidays or sports cars due to the demands of school fees. Town state schools are very different from city state schools so don't be to hard on them for not wanting to have their children sheltered.