Reply to: House prices are opinion - debt is fact

[scooterscot]

threaded in "Not a lot of people know that" mode.

You got that from Bottom

[threaded]

The average cabbie earns 4 times as much as their average customer.

threaded in "Not a lot of people know that" mode.

[scooterscot]

When the shoe shine boy starts giving stock tips. Sell.

Think about it. When the lower earners of society are all buying BTLs then who the hell is there left to rent.

It's all true... 2 years ago I bought a Picasso for 430K, sold it last month for £2.1m

suckers...

[Bagpuss]

are taxi drivers the lower earners ?

I was talking to a taxi driver in woking and he owned the licence, cost him about 55k gbp and he reconned he was bringing in 3k a week.

Milan.

Black cab drivers in London earn as much as your 'average' computer contractor

PS just started reading The Book of Dave

[speling bee]

I've still got my Fortan and Pascal books on the shelf, just incase.

Fortran
in case

[rootsnall]

Anyone need some FORTRAN IV?

I've still got my Fortan and Pascal books on the shelf, just incase.

[rootsnall]

Sounds like, with the greatest of respect, you're just lazy.

Correct, it has served me well. My nickname at school was Idle 'surname' !

[milanbenes]

thanks, I am currently not thinking of being a cabbie, Benes Plan B moves forward just fine.

Roots, you have to admit, bog standard in any techie area is going to pay the worst.

Sounds like, with the greatest of respect, you're just lazy, anyway leave the new fangled for me and we will all be happy

Milan.

[Rantor]

the bloke I spoke to did a lot of heathrow and gatwick and railway stations work and worked nights at the weekend

granted he worked hard, but how many people have got somewhere without working ahrd ?

Milan.

Milan - you should read "The Book Of Dave" by Will Self - enough to put anyone of the idea of cabbing (not mention marriage, religon and genetic engineering!)

[rootsnall]

Dont know about the south but Taxi Drivers up north are probably on £30k.

Sounds about right, it wasn't a Plan B to earn a fortune just to tick over and provide beer money and also preserve the pot for later full retirement.

Milan, your theory is about right, but I think the rate for bog standard techie work could end up at a level were it isn't viable if you need to travel and stay away to get that work.

[milanbenes]

the bloke I spoke to did a lot of heathrow and gatwick and railway stations work and worked nights at the weekend

granted he worked hard, but how many people have got somewhere without working ahrd ?

Milan.

[Sockpuppet]

Dont know about the south but Taxi Drivers up north are probably on £30k. Less if you don't own the car.

Probably becuase up north there is less competition for the licences.

[Troll]

roots,

I don't think you'll be needing to worry about that,

I am concluding that those of us riding the new fangled wave will be fine and those of you deep into old fangled will be fine for a long long time

old fangled isn't going to go away, and will be around for ever in my opinion, in the old fangled area a lot of the experts are getting on and no new blood is coming into the area and any new blood that comes in steers clear of old fangled therefore, you people in old fangled will be like the mainframers, you'll enjoy a late renaissence in demand

us lot on new fangled will keep going from crisis to crisis, escalation to escalation, opening HIGH messages and muddling though - but it pays the bills and no one else knows how to do it and when problems are solved and things begin to work it is very satisfying

what say thee ?

Milan.

To summarise: Legacy ... it's the way forward!

a.k.a. money for old rope

[milanbenes]

roots,

I don't think you'll be needing to worry about that,

I am concluding that those of us riding the new fangled wave will be fine and those of you deep into old fangled will be fine for a long long time

old fangled isn't going to go away, and will be around for ever in my opinion, in the old fangled area a lot of the experts are getting on and no new blood is coming into the area and any new blood that comes in steers clear of old fangled therefore, you people in old fangled will be like the mainframers, you'll enjoy a late renaissence in demand

us lot on new fangled will keep going from crisis to crisis, escalation to escalation, opening HIGH messages and muddling though - but it pays the bills and no one else knows how to do it and when problems are solved and things begin to work it is very satisfying

what say thee ?

Milan.

[tim123]

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