Lifestyle

[contractor79]

Hi
Being a contractor I think there's 3 different lifstyles you can lead:

1. Spend it all
2. Spend only your £40k salary
3. Live like a student, only slightly posher

which one are you?

[Moscow Mule]

I do not accept the premise of the question.

[contractor79]

I do not accept the premise of the question.

do elaborate

[Moscow Mule]

I generally spend half of it - that's above £40k...

[contractor79]

ok I'll make another category

1. spend it all
2a. spend 75%
2b. spend 50%
3. spend 40k
4. spend like a student

[thunderlizard]

Like a student. Hence I'm working at twenty to one on a Monday morning.

[Spacecadet]

You're so obviously not married

[EqualOpportunities]

Like a student. Hence I'm working at twenty to one on a Monday morning.

I didn't realise this was a positive lifestyle choice - I thought I'd just fallen into it...

[NickFitz]

I live the way I've always lived, except that now I can afford it.

However, I'm not sure I want to do it anymore.

But then I go into town on a Tuesday lunchtime... look at them all

You only have to look at the general populace on a Tuesday lunchtime to know that not being one of them is all you need from life

[Olly]

Student life for me, albeit with a car a bit better than the mini-traveller I had then.
I don't particularly like working (or rather I seldom like the contracts I end up with) so the way I figure it is if I can save a bundle then I can pick up a house almost outright in a nice area (Bournemouthish) when they're selling for diddly and then look around for a job I want to do.

Providing it pulls in more than 50K a year I'll be aright and I can always be on the look out for the "big thing" that will make me a wealthy man.

I do, however, sometimes splash out based on the thought, x Euros, blimey I earn that in a few hours, I'll take it (this is especially true when alcohol is involved!). Normally though I think, hey I'm lucky to be paid 4 times more than a permy doing the same job, I really should squirrel this away before someone notices and the gravy train stops.