Is it wrong to feel like this?
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On a six figure salary and have been for last 3 years. Never had any challenges with cost of living in last few years and have a secure job/career.
The news every day is about cost of living, inflation, economic woes and struggles.
I feel my good career planning all the way from A levels has massively helped by those who picked easy degrees or had awful planning. I feel good to know I made correct choices whilst others didn't, e.g. friends who questioned my choices.
Is this bad?
The news every day is about cost of living, inflation, economic woes and struggles.
I feel my good career planning all the way from A levels has massively helped by those who picked easy degrees or had awful planning. I feel good to know I made correct choices whilst others didn't, e.g. friends who questioned my choices.
Is this bad?
I'd be wary of how much you put down to your own good planning vs good fortune. I'm comfortable that the choices I've made in life have led me to a reasonable place, but they certainly weren't all sure things, and some of the good or bad choices were only revealed to be such after things that I had no way of influencing or knowing about.
It's fine to be glad that you're doing ok and aren't feeling the pinch in the way others are, but unless you can honestly say you knew exactly how each choice was going to pan out, across decades (and there's plenty of decades to come yet!), a certain amount of "there but for the grace of God go I" at the back of one's mind isn't the worst thing.
It's fine to be glad that you're doing ok and aren't feeling the pinch in the way others are, but unless you can honestly say you knew exactly how each choice was going to pan out, across decades (and there's plenty of decades to come yet!), a certain amount of "there but for the grace of God go I" at the back of one's mind isn't the worst thing.
Nothing wrong with being grateful for your lot, so long as you temper any self congratulation by realising that it could easily have gone wrong for you too had circumstances not been right at the time.
Remember too how precarious success can be, one day you're flying the next can come cancellation and ruin from any direction as various people have found to their cost over recent years.
Good luck to anyone who makes it from their own efforts and hard work.
Remember too how precarious success can be, one day you're flying the next can come cancellation and ruin from any direction as various people have found to their cost over recent years.
Good luck to anyone who makes it from their own efforts and hard work.
Well done for being humble enough to post about how well you’re doing when others are struggling.
Unless your good planning and decision making was from a base of growing up in a sink estate without any direct role models and without the support of parents who had time and money then I suspect you’re being a bit overly smug.
Unless your good planning and decision making was from a base of growing up in a sink estate without any direct role models and without the support of parents who had time and money then I suspect you’re being a bit overly smug.
I don't think smugness is appealing, but it can be hard to resist.
I cruised through education doing the minimum possible, drank my way to a Desmond, fell into a job, spent 20-odd years ambling randomly through a complete lack of idea what I wanted to do, zero career planning, doing things mainly because they looked interesting, been paying additional rate tax for the last few years.
It's almost like where you end up is more about luck than any sensible decision-making you can take credit for.
TL:DR - Mary Schmich — 'Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.'
I cruised through education doing the minimum possible, drank my way to a Desmond, fell into a job, spent 20-odd years ambling randomly through a complete lack of idea what I wanted to do, zero career planning, doing things mainly because they looked interesting, been paying additional rate tax for the last few years.
It's almost like where you end up is more about luck than any sensible decision-making you can take credit for.
TL:DR - Mary Schmich — 'Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.'
Racehorse said:
On a six figure salary and have been for last 3 years. Never had any challenges with cost of living in last few years and have a secure job/career.
The news every day is about cost of living, inflation, economic woes and struggles.
I feel my good career planning all the way from A levels has massively helped by those who picked easy degrees or had awful planning. I feel good to know I made correct choices whilst others didn't, e.g. friends who questioned my choices.
Is this bad?
The important point is you are on a £100k salary. Cos you haven’t mentioned that before, oh no….The news every day is about cost of living, inflation, economic woes and struggles.
I feel my good career planning all the way from A levels has massively helped by those who picked easy degrees or had awful planning. I feel good to know I made correct choices whilst others didn't, e.g. friends who questioned my choices.
Is this bad?
OP. Is English your first language?
If not fair enough.
But if it is what dirt have you got on senior people in business to find yourself in a position to earn six figures, assuming we’re talking sterling. Because none of your posts are written in the manner of someone who would hold their own above a low level supervisory position in any industry I’ve any experience of.
If not fair enough.
But if it is what dirt have you got on senior people in business to find yourself in a position to earn six figures, assuming we’re talking sterling. Because none of your posts are written in the manner of someone who would hold their own above a low level supervisory position in any industry I’ve any experience of.
MickTravis665321 said:
Racehorse said:
I feel good to know I made correct choices whilst others didn't, e.g. friends who questioned my choices.
Is this bad?
Oh how they laughed when you said you were going to be a stallion semen collector. But now you're on six figs, who's laughing now?Is this bad?
Racehorse said:
On a six figure salary and have been for last 3 years. Never had any challenges with cost of living in last few years and have a secure job/career.
The news every day is about cost of living, inflation, economic woes and struggles.
I feel my good career planning all the way from A levels has massively helped by those who picked easy degrees or had awful planning. I feel good to know I made correct choices whilst others didn't, e.g. friends who questioned my choices.
Is this bad?
When I look back at my life, I thank the luck that got me here.The news every day is about cost of living, inflation, economic woes and struggles.
I feel my good career planning all the way from A levels has massively helped by those who picked easy degrees or had awful planning. I feel good to know I made correct choices whilst others didn't, e.g. friends who questioned my choices.
Is this bad?
To be born in the UK is to win the lottery of human existence. To be educated and able to grasp those opportunities is to win the jackpot. To be one of the highest earning people in the entire world is more about the circumstances that got you there, than some innate superiority. Many people brighter, better and more capable than us are born and die in obscurity, never to reach their potential.
Personally, I'd be more thankful than prideful.
ETA. So OP's a troll. Still, probably worth saying the above?
Edited by Harry Flashman on Tuesday 29th August 05:18
Whilst the original post might be a windup, I would say it is still worth reflecting that some humility at ones success make for a more likeable person (which is a very important aspect of life - socially competent people do better).
I am assuming that a child has started this thread, so please take some time to think about your life choices now and what will make you happy in the future. Don't grow up to be a smug show off, nobody likes them, including themselves.
I am assuming that a child has started this thread, so please take some time to think about your life choices now and what will make you happy in the future. Don't grow up to be a smug show off, nobody likes them, including themselves.
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