Luckiest contractor

**DimPrawn** · 13 November 2007, 11:51

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** · 13 November 2007, 11:52

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

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** · 13 November 2007, 11:53

Originally posted by Spartacus View Post

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** · 13 November 2007, 11:54

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

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** · 13 November 2007, 11:55

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** · 13 November 2007, 11:56

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

**MobileCheese** · 13 November 2007, 12:37

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** · 13 November 2007, 13:25

Was that a "prize" draw?

**Zorba** · 13 November 2007, 13:33

Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

Was that a "prize" draw?

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

Luckiest contractor