Luckiest contractor

[Bagpuss]

Left school at 16?
You can't even spell degree?
Read .net for dummies and got a gig on £700 a day?
Were offered right to buy on your council flat in Hackney for £15k?
Sold at the top of the dot com boom?


Can't believe how lucky you've been

Discuss or not....

 

[DimPrawn]

I was lucky to get in .NET at the beta stage.
Lucky to buy property in the early nineties when it was (relatively affordable).

 

[Spartacus]

Lucky to buy property in the early nineties when it was (relatively affordable).

It still is compared to what it will cost next year. I would urge anyone to join the BTL gravy train while you still can.

 

[DimPrawn]

It still is compared to what it will cost next year. I would urge anyone to join the BTL gravy train while you still can.

Good advice. Go off plan for small studio flats in Manchester if you can.

 

[Spartacus]

Good advice. Go off plan for small studio flats in Manchester if you can.

License to print money mate. Not doing so is like walking past a bundle of fifties in the street and not bothering to pick it up.

 

[Bagpuss]

and what's left should be invested in banks this time next year you should see -50% profit, and anyone who knows anything about scratch cards knows that makes sense

 

[DimPrawn]

Might be worth putting a short on a few banks (spreadbet?) over the next few months. They ain't going up in value!

 

[MobileCheese]

I was lucky managed to blag a jobs at IB as 21, after 12 months was told I was going to be made redundent but was I interested in another role doing X and they would train me up it was a new technology at the time, I just said yeah. It turned from a niche banking technology to virtually all banks using it, been doing it 9 years now, contracting for 4. Left school with 4 GCSE's and was nearly a chef

Wasnt lucky in property though I was too slow off the mark, not been lucky with women either. I did win an Ipod once though in a prise draw.

 

[SueEllen]

Was that a "prize" draw?

 

[Zorba]

Was that a "prize" draw?

No - he ran over a jogger and prised the iPod from his cold, dead fingers.