Same mate, he done the 4:30 milk round and worked scaffolding from an early age as well. All he ever wanted to do was join the Marines but he is asthmatic so got KB'd. I'm the exact opposite, academic, hate being cold, passed every aptitude test as it was my dream to fly Tornado's for a living then got shunned 'cos I'm colourblind. I love it when graduates try schooling me on things they've spent 5 years looking at, so ****? Well done you've proved you can read and your memory works... Whoop de ****ing do, show me how you turn it into money you Carhartt wearing, **** crack, **** mates, rucksack carrying fart pipe.
Worked as a paper boy in my teens. Have worked sinc I was 16 and paid tax since I was 18! I now work in the NHS on pretty decent money and love my job based 3 miles from my house. I travelled when I was younger, made (and blew) a lot of money instead of being sensible and saving and buying a house like a most of my mates did, I pissed most of it against a wall and gambled the rest (never got in trouble just was a young lad making good money contracting all over the country)!! Happy now and my missus works too so we have no tax credits (well around £11 a week which goes straight split between the two kids in a trust fund and has since I can remember) so if they cut my tax credits I will simply take the hit and keep paying that £11 a week from My pocket. Make money off my singing but reinvest most of that in my singing so make very little profit! Love my life, love my family (and agree it takes money to keep it together)
Comm is a nice bloke straight as a die, .............calls a spade a spade, but still as daft as a ships cat!
Then 3 hours kip before i had to get up. Not a good idea. An enjoyable and enlightening thread though. So thanks to all that contributed.
The controversy only begins when you look at solutions to the problem. How do you identify somebody who is pretending they have a bad back and separate them from somebody like Vince who I assume genuinely does have a bad back? We can't, the process would trample over their human rights more than likely, there's that phrase again raising it's ugly head. People with depression is the one for me. Why are they being encouraged to stay at home, alone, with no support group around them, totally isolated with a box full of medication they have to neck every day? For me, I'd sack every analyst and pen pusher in the NHS and Home Office and start saving these people, because being able to provide facts and figures on how many people have come into the hospital with broken bones and how many people died of the lurgey, is much less important than saving lives, that will always be a fact. People don't and can't work because this country is a pushover of a nation.
Well said, I can only speak for over here but most GPs in Oz treat us as numbers. What I mean by that instead of proper diagnosis, it's the smash and grab approach sadly.. Docs say 'here take this ****' it became a vicious cycle and the root of the problem isn't being ignored. For me, if it was in a position to make that decision, I'd employ people who have been through depression etc and come through it.
It's completely counter-intuitive to sit them at home on a course of drugs that may or may not work. The biggest reasons for the lack of attention mental health gets is because it's not a physical disease and it's not a direct killer, therefore the money is ****. The pharma companies don't make enough money from it, if they 'cure' a patient, with mental health issues, the money doesn't come anymore. They make it 'better' in a lot of cases, and the patient becomes long-term dependent on the drugs. The big money is elsewhere, huge pharma companies are paying a lot of gov'ts off to ban substances so that they can continue to peddle painkillers, opiates and steroids to deal with certain conditions, when there are far safer, natural remedies being developed around the world. The walls have started to fall down though.
You know when I first had problems with my back/ neck, I was diagnosed trapped nerve and had 10 weeks rest of work that was May 2014. I returned on light duties for 10 weeks then back on normal duties until 24/11/2015. I never fully recovered and the pain has come back with avengence. Caused I believe by fitting a washer under the bench. I am now in so much pain and although par time I don't know when I will be back (I'm hoping no to long maybe one month off work ) My boss tel yesterday asking if I was ok and when will I be back. I am 64 in Jan and have been fortunate to be employed all my life. I have never claimed benifits or infact don't know how. Like I say I have been fortunate all my working life BUT NOW IM NACKERED.
See back pain is another one mate, it's too complicated and costly to start messing around inside the spine with the Central nervous system and that's why it's just 'easier' (cheaper) for the gov't to put you down as a write off. People have cottoned on to this and a few trips to the docs saying 'it's no better doc' and you're off on the sick for 6 months. I'm not suggesting you'd ever entertain that but you know as well as I do, people take advantage of it, then you read about them being spotted carrying two 30kg lintels on their shoulder whilst refitting a house or something! Stem Cell treatment is the future, currently about $25k per injection, but when it's widely used, professionally and the pharma companies are fully behind it, it'll be a lot cheaper. Here's a controversial one for you all to think about... Will privatising the NHS stop so many scroungers going on the sick?
Prove to me how it's a direct killer and a physical illness. The issue you have Aussie, with me, isn't that you disagree with me, it's that you don't understand what I'm writing, then you ridicule me like you did on the addict thread.
In the whole spelling is not important in certain jobs. However when apply for a job it is very important. I believe you have more time when filling in any type of form or application. Yes in some cases it's lazy writing. Some people like me try but can't seem to be able to spell some words.
Been self employed most of my working life - at times successful sometimes not so much - graduated from Uni in 2012 enjoyed that immensely, wasn't academic whatsoever at school so achieving a first, gave me a real boost - now looking at a Masters or PhD - most of my recent carreer is art and music based community projects and as ever gigging - never been money driven - would suggest I've made money for others over the years -never been unemployed - have the occasional days when not much happens so I read during those moments
