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Having been to the canteen in my current office, which is shared with a few other companies, I can say that you should get a job. In publishing. Phwoar. The publishing industry appears to employ more good looking women than the rest of the world combined.
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Having been to the canteen in my current office, which is shared with a few other companies, I can say that you should get a job. In publishing. Phwoar. The publishing industry appears to employ more good looking women than the rest of the world combined.
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I worked for a major publishing house in London many years ago and it was crawling with good looking women, many of whom were the type who "worked in publishing" until a mechant banker came along and married them.
"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.
I worked for a major publishing house in London many years ago and it was crawling with good looking women, many of whom were the type who "worked in publishing" until a mechant banker came along and married them.
Another reason, if one were needed, bankers are chunts.
I want to do the self sufficiency thing like the Good Life, but don’t know how they paid their council tax, electricity etc … oh I think they had an electricity generator right? What about water and council tax? Or don’t you need to pay that if you don’t have a job?
As I recall they tried an electricity generator but it didn't work very well.
Council and water taxes are the biggies as there's no way to reduce them. Gas and electricity also have a standing charge; you can't go lower than that.
Then there's the tax system as well. As soon as you earn cash to pay for those essentials you are liable to self employment NI, and ultimately the rest as well.
I don't think the Good Life was economically viable. They'd have needed more land and a means of generating income. The concept of organic farming and farmers' markets hadn't hit the public consciousness back then.
The only folks I've come across who "dropped out" in the 1970s ended up doing rather well for themselves. One chap picked up a manor house plus extensive grounds for peanuts back then and went into rose growing. He ended up starting several gardening centres, and there was a similar chap who started up a wine shop and ended up with a chain of them.
Speaking of electricity generator, has anyone looked into this solar panels? Something about the government scheme saying they will pay you for any electricity one generates, but I don’t mind that, I know in other countries most of the water/heating is from solar panels, and they are environmentally friendly, has anyone has them fitted? How effective are they in a UK weather?
Having been to the canteen in my current office, which is shared with a few other companies, I can say that you should get a job. In publishing. Phwoar. The publishing industry appears to employ more good looking women than the rest of the world combined.
I worked in marketing for a few years. Companies were driven by sleasy old men who forced a hiring policy based on female tight arses, good to look at but eventually you got tired explaining the most rudimentary technical stuff to daft tight arsed wee lassies.
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