How much do you earn?

[Porridge GTI]

Rude question perhaps but let's have it.

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I never understood people who earn more just to spend it. It’s much more exciting to save more.

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OzzyR1 said:

It really doesn't matter, it's insignificant compared to time spent with your family and loved ones.

Fine words but unfortunately just not true.

[Porridge GTI]

Same bracket as db10 but wouldn’t go near trophy cars. As someone said above, I have what I need and just want to remove all doubt that the children will have provision that I didn’t.

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johnwilliams77 said:

Porridge GTI said:

Same bracket as db10 but wouldn’t go near trophy cars. As someone said above, I have what I need and just want to remove all doubt that the children will have provision that I didn’t.

Impressive. What do you do?

Oil-related in the Middle East.

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johnwilliams77 said:

Porridge GTI said:

Oil-related in the Middle East.

Must be a fairly senior position. Does your work feel like a hobby too?! I find it hard to believe the senior management love it, it is more ‘bearable’ due to the rewards.

I wouldn’t do it for free so it isn’t like a hobby in that sense. But I’m naturally good at the intellectual part of it and earlier in my career put a lot of time into learning the basics well, in order to maximise what I could achieve given this as a starting point.

But it’s like a hobby in the sense I have hobbies that definitely require a similar mental approach (heavily analytical).

[Porridge GTI]

Putting off seeing your children for work. Makes me think of all those people who put off fitness for work. They tell themselves they’ll get round to it but time passes and they often don’t. My own view is how can you live without either - but people clearly do.

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My approach is make hay while the sun shines, meaning maximise earnings and savings while your health and inclination allows, subject of course to maintaining an acceptable work/life split. Sounds like a truism but I’d also say tip the balance in favour of work while you’re still physically able because there will come a day when the opportunities thin out or you don’t have the health to take them.

I don’t have a clear ‘number’ I want to reach after which I can stop or go slow. Instead I focus on spinning out what I now have for as long as possible, adding where I can. It might end tomorrow or in 20 years but I’ll know I wasn’t premature in deciding to get off the treadmill.

I say this as someone who likes working and doesn’t really want to stop.

Edited by Porridge GTI on Monday 19th November 17:04

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Good one about gym banter. Never gets the rating it deserves.