14 years, what have you done?

[J8 SVG]

Cotty said:

J8 SVG said:

Got horrible insurance job

I feel so sorry for you. I got an insurance job 27years ago, I still do an insurance job.

Was a horrible insurance job where I went home with less than £1000 a month. I think if it paid any better it could have been bearable but I was working my butt off to be poor?!

[Rick_1138]

Started Uni, failed course, tried again, failed, changed courses and went to college, then Uni.

Graduated a 2:1
Got my first proper job
Got a HSE qualification
Made redundant, got a crap job.
Got a better job
had longish relationships with 5 women
had 12 cars, 4 bikes
bought 3 guinea pigs
Moved home with girlfriend
went offshore
had major bowel surgery
went to America, Australia, Germany and Hong Kong.
Got finalist in national figure painting competition.

[Office_Monkey]

Moved back to my parent's house
Worked with a mate
Passed an OU accounting course
Got a job in a call centre
Passed my bike test
Bought a bike (still have it)
Met a great girl
Switched to a support-based role for the same company
Moved in with GF
Passed all my CIMA exams (first time!!)
Moved back to parent's to save deposit
Moved jobs within the company
Bought a house
Got engaged.
Had a few cars in between, but nothing exciting
A lot of saving up, not a lot of holidays

[Fotic]

Rick_1138 said:

Got finalist in national figure painting competition.

[BoRED S2upid]

14 years seems like a lifetime. In a nutshell:

Graduated, had one job and one business, sold business, bought 2 houses, got married had first child been to a few different continents on holidays been to a few f1 races and from memory bought and sold 11 different cars including one Porsche a Westfield and a little mx5.

[BoRED S2upid]

Rick_1138 said:

had longish relationships with 5 women

I hope this was all at the same time like some sort if religious cult now that would have been a good few years

[Mr SFJ]

Started School
Finished school
Started college
Finished with distinction
met girl
Started at Uni
secured a stty part time sales job
quit Uni
cared for family member whilst V ill.
got my bike
got my car
crashed my bike
crashed my car (into a rock )
helped girl get job
secured first real job
went exploring in america.
got engaged to said girl
left first real job
started at better job
got current car
started saving for house
discussing visit to Chernobyl.


I finished school in 2010..

[toon10]

Had my son in 2001, split from his mother after finding out she was having an affair, bought a new house and tommed about for a few years. Still in the same house with me and my son half the week. I settled down, been with my current partner nearly 4 years and pretty settled and boring. Spend all my time and money on my son and travelling. Career going OK although a bit stagnant at the minute.

I'm 40 now and my priorities have changed. I'm stuck in my ways and trying to find reasons not to let the other half move in as I like my space. She's great and brilliant with my son so I suppose the next stage is to settle down properly like a normal adult!

[Rick_1138]

BoRED S2upid said:

Rick_1138 said:

had longish relationships with 5 women

I hope this was all at the same time like some sort if religious cult now that would have been a good few years

2 of them were but that was trying to prise myself off a nutjob limpet while shagging the new squeeze who was much less mental, there was some cross over....mainly while I gnawed my arm off to escape the first, but she was quite pretty and had daddy issues.....

Re the figure painting, you have to throw one odd thing in the list

[MercuryRises]

StuntmanMike said:

MercuryRises said:

Honestly? Very little.


Studied Marine Engineering at Warsash, had a few crap cars, a couple of crap jobs.

Made a few new friends and been on some cracking holidays, spent a lot of time and money indulging hobbies and getting pissed.


I'll grow up one day I guess!

It's sounds like you are doing fine.

I'm doing alright, just wish I could afford to retire

[sjabrown]

Roughly in chronological order:

Discovered alcohol
Finished school
Started uni
Bought (with parental help) my flat
Bought my first car
Did quite a bit of hill running and photography
Discovered rallying and ditched the hill running
Wrote off first car, bought second
Finished uni
Moved back home for a year
Bought a rally car
Trained to be a GP
Bought some more cars
Sold flat
Buying house
Still rallying, but going back to hill running.

[hman]

StuntmanMike said:

SpeedMattersNot said:

What an ungraceful thing to do, come onto a topic like this and announce your life is better than everyone else's!

If your life really was better, you wouldn't be on pistonheads - let alone this topic.

I read it as, I'm 39 and still live with mummy, I also wk myself to sleep everynight, the only car I've driven is on an Xbox, mummy sometimes helps with the wking.

Ungraceful - so what? better than being as boring as a beige carpet, also why does being awesome preclude anyone from being on pistonheads?? that makes no sense.

Stuntman mike - You need to stop thinking about peoples mums wking them off and start thinking about being more awesome, you total freakshow

[RyanTank]

Left school
got a full time job
changed within the job to permanent night shifts at UK wide locations
got paid more than I could appreciate
bought loads of pointless expensive gadget
lost many expensive gadgets
became borderline alcoholic due to working nights and having no social life
left the job
went to college
met friends for life
had a few girlfriends but had commitment issues and general issues of boredom with some
met my future wife
got a new job
visited Disney World Orlando
buried family and friends
helped bring g/f out of the pit of depression she was in
buried in laws
picked g/f back out of another pit of depression
helped a random stranger that appeared to be having a heart attack until an ambulance arrived
passed my driving test
bought 3 cars
bought a house
travelled some more
got engaged
got married
had various operations

All of the above are pretty much cut n paste from everyone else.
But the most significant moment that sticks with me from the last 14 years was the day I got a phone call to say that I had been a match to a sick child that required a bone marrow transplant to help fight their illness.
the next month was a blur of test at various hospitals across South Wales and hours spent on phone calls to the specialist teams I would be helping out.
Then 3 days before my donation date I had another call. I still feel emotional to this day thinking about that call and them telling me that unfortunately the process of preparing them for donation, by taking them off all meds and treatment, had caused her to decline rapidly to the point there was nothing that could be done.
That is one of the few days that I can remember crying my eyes out. not because I had a "Hero Complex" I'd been accused of, but because someone along the line had told me that it was a little girl I was helping, and I knew the pain her parents must have gone through knowing there was a donor there for her, but that in the end she just wasn't strong enough to make it.

That day helped me realise how trivial some things in life are and that actually some times we do need to think fk it and do whatever we want!

[StuntmanMike]

hman said:

StuntmanMike said:

SpeedMattersNot said:

What an ungraceful thing to do, come onto a topic like this and announce your life is better than everyone else's!

If your life really was better, you wouldn't be on pistonheads - let alone this topic.

I read it as, I'm 39 and still live with mummy, I also wk myself to sleep everynight, the only car I've driven is on an Xbox, mummy sometimes helps with the wking.

Ungraceful - so what? better than being as boring as a beige carpet, also why does being awesome preclude anyone from being on pistonheads?? that makes no sense.

Stuntman mike - You need to stop thinking about peoples mums wking them off and start thinking about being more awesome, you total freakshow

Thanks, I'll take that onboard.

[Siko]

RyanTank said:

Left school
got a full time job
changed within the job to permanent night shifts at UK wide locations
got paid more than I could appreciate
bought loads of pointless expensive gadget
lost many expensive gadgets
became borderline alcoholic due to working nights and having no social life
left the job
went to college
met friends for life
had a few girlfriends but had commitment issues and general issues of boredom with some
met my future wife
got a new job
visited Disney World Orlando
buried family and friends
helped bring g/f out of the pit of depression she was in
buried in laws
picked g/f back out of another pit of depression
helped a random stranger that appeared to be having a heart attack until an ambulance arrived
passed my driving test
bought 3 cars
bought a house
travelled some more
got engaged
got married
had various operations

All of the above are pretty much cut n paste from everyone else.
But the most significant moment that sticks with me from the last 14 years was the day I got a phone call to say that I had been a match to a sick child that required a bone marrow transplant to help fight their illness.
the next month was a blur of test at various hospitals across South Wales and hours spent on phone calls to the specialist teams I would be helping out.
Then 3 days before my donation date I had another call. I still feel emotional to this day thinking about that call and them telling me that unfortunately the process of preparing them for donation, by taking them off all meds and treatment, had caused her to decline rapidly to the point there was nothing that could be done.
That is one of the few days that I can remember crying my eyes out. not because I had a "Hero Complex" I'd been accused of, but because someone along the line had told me that it was a little girl I was helping, and I knew the pain her parents must have gone through knowing there was a donor there for her, but that in the end she just wasn't strong enough to make it.

That day helped me realise how trivial some things in life are and that actually some times we do need to think fk it and do whatever we want!

Well done you though for trying to help her.

[StuntmanMike]

Siko said:

RyanTank said:

Left school
got a full time job
changed within the job to permanent night shifts at UK wide locations
got paid more than I could appreciate
bought loads of pointless expensive gadget
lost many expensive gadgets
became borderline alcoholic due to working nights and having no social life
left the job
went to college
met friends for life
had a few girlfriends but had commitment issues and general issues of boredom with some
met my future wife
got a new job
visited Disney World Orlando
buried family and friends
helped bring g/f out of the pit of depression she was in
buried in laws
picked g/f back out of another pit of depression
helped a random stranger that appeared to be having a heart attack until an ambulance arrived
passed my driving test
bought 3 cars
bought a house
travelled some more
got engaged
got married
had various operations

All of the above are pretty much cut n paste from everyone else.
But the most significant moment that sticks with me from the last 14 years was the day I got a phone call to say that I had been a match to a sick child that required a bone marrow transplant to help fight their illness.
the next month was a blur of test at various hospitals across South Wales and hours spent on phone calls to the specialist teams I would be helping out.
Then 3 days before my donation date I had another call. I still feel emotional to this day thinking about that call and them telling me that unfortunately the process of preparing them for donation, by taking them off all meds and treatment, had caused her to decline rapidly to the point there was nothing that could be done.
That is one of the few days that I can remember crying my eyes out. not because I had a "Hero Complex" I'd been accused of, but because someone along the line had told me that it was a little girl I was helping, and I knew the pain her parents must have gone through knowing there was a donor there for her, but that in the end she just wasn't strong enough to make it.

That day helped me realise how trivial some things in life are and that actually some times we do need to think fk it and do whatever we want!

Well done you though for trying to help her.

Missed this one, you sir, walk ten feet tall for this, true hero.

[hman]

Well that trumps anything I've done !

St Peter will have your name written in gold pen.

[RyanTank]

hman said:

Well that trumps anything I've done !

St Peter will have your name written in gold pen.

StuntmanMike said:

Siko said:

Well done you though for trying to help her.

Missed this one, you sir, walk ten feet tall for this, true hero.

Not anywhere near a hero, but cheers for the kind words chaps, I didn't agree to do it for applause or an ego boost. I did it because it was the right thing to do and I had no reason to say no.

[WokkaWokka]

Left school
Had a couple of girlfriends one of which was fking mental..edit forgot about another one, short lived but mental
Met a brilliant woman
Went to several nice countries and cities
Bought a fancy fast car
Bought a house

Plan to increase my wealth so that I can buy myself a bigger house and a GT3 RS and continue to travel the world and enjoy myself with the other half.

[Divvyboy]

Met a lovely girl
Got engaged
Got married
6mnths later found she was having a affair
Got divorced
Bought a new bike to cheer me up
Met another lady
Found out 2mnths later she was pregnant by her ex.who had run of to New Zealand with his lover.then I got down again wandering where to go next.ex did not want to know.so I stuck with her and the little bump .then she went into labour with his child.this is when my life changed initially I felt I wanted nothing to do with them at all.until I held that little girl in my arms and her little smile changed me.i could not let her be without a daddy figure in her life at all.so now in 2014 we have a little girl in our life's who is now 4 yrs old and the adoption is going through . Wedding plans are also in place.