I am so pleased to read this Paul - it shows you are not a rich spoiled kid and also shows where the money came from - good luck with the rest of the course, as to jobs - won't they take you on?
Your comments are appreciated -- yes I do live completely on my own means and have done for many years now, and I think sometimes people assume I'm either staying with my folks, or being subsidised by them because I have several cars and a bike while at uni.
It may appear to some people that I have more income than I do, but it's more the case that I never get into debt (so don't waste money making the banks richer) and I tend to be quite shrewd with what I do buy -- I have never lost more than £1000 in depreciation on a car, as I either buy cars that are desirable/unusual enough to hold their value (such as my 840), or for more mundane cars I buy cheap after they've already done most of their depreciating. So I have three cars at the moment, but none of them are really losing any money, and two of those will likely be sold soon (so I'll soon know for sure how much they've cost in value terms).
As for jobs, it's not that they won't take me, I just hate the whole process. It's so time consuming -- you have to spend so much time tailoring your application for each company, and give them the obviously bullshit impression that you think they're the best company in the world and it's your lifetime ambition to work for them etc
. Add to that I'm not really sure what I want to do in the long term! I kind of fancy a change, but I'll probably end up staying largely in the same discipline. I do fancy a move elsewhere though, the weather here sucks somewhat.
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