Is it worth pursuing a career anymore...

[sasguru]

You work hard all your life as benefits and council houses dont have a great appeal, so you work and take different jobs that come along during the course of your working life.

If you're offered permanent employment for 38,0000 or one at 34,0000 you take the lower paid one so you wont enter the 40% tax bracket (and end up having to fill out endless bulltulip self assesment forms), so your net income is probably better than it would be for the higher. Then the CSA (another robbing gov dept) come along and tell you how much they are going to leave you with after they have made ridiculous deductions straight from your payroll. You then decide that it's not worth working and ending up with £75 per week disposable income after your mortgage and government payments, so you leave perm employment and go contracting so the Gordy's cant pinch your earnings and then they decide to take your passport and driving license off you for not paying your CSA.

Thats after you have been caught driving to work at 31mph and get 3 points and a fine.

Better off staying in bed and drawing benefits.....!

He he. Proves why he was voted thickest plank on the forum.

[Andyw]

I shall defer answering this until after my divorce hearing next month...

oh dear ! you're going to get hammered !

The joys of being a male !

[Andyw]

guru why dont you stick to wandering around PCworld at weekends mate ! you're obviously happy in places like that !

[Emperor Dalek]

Remind me, what is it the 'w' in 'andyw' stands for again?

[CaribbeanPirate]

Could be:

winkle
wit
wages

Whatever it is, it's only little.

[AtW]

Its definately not worker.

[Andyw]

Its definately not worker.

What does yours stand for then ?

[ratewhore]

oh dear ! you're going to get hammered !

Probably. Currently my ex (who I have tried to show the difference between salary & dividend) wants 99% of my salary and 30% of my dividends. Oh yeah - and a whole bunch of cash from the business...

...gotta laugh...

[Emperor Dalek]

A couple of thousand in cash and a return ticket from Moscow will solve your problem.

[boredsenseless]

Because, they want over the top payments, like £160 per week for each kid. Only, if its the goverment making the payments then the payments are ten quid a week but if it you then, well, we'll just have as much as you can afford matey. oh BTW my son is 18 so im talking about friends.

people dont mind paying for their kids, just not silly amounts that leave them skint putting a strain on their current relationship !

wake up and smell the coffee !

Well given that they tend to cost more than that to cloth, feed, house and entertain it doesn't seem unreasonable