Reply to: What would you do with your life...

[Zippy]

Probably a doctorate on the later Roman Empire and more research afterwards.

[DodgyAgent]

so quite close to your work now then really, just aiming at the elder market

I take it chef you work on "high end" strategic stuff with your expert analysis

[vetran]

so quite close to your work now then really, just aiming at the elder market

he's just going to do more bottom wiping.

[chef]

I would run a care home for old and decrepit contractors and relieve them of their savings and pensions

so quite close to your work now then really, just aiming at the elder market

[DodgyAgent]

I would run a care home for old and decrepit contractors and relieve them of their savings and pensions

[MyUserName]

If I did not need to work then I would train more and aim at European level titles. I might also learn to joust.

I would also start properly researching the 'buy to let' market and try to study a different subject every 3 months or so.

[kingcook]

... if you didn't need to work to maintain your current standard of living?

I'd open a lap dancing bar and be chief interviewer.

[sasguru]

Probably a doctorate on the later Roman Empire and more research afterwards.

Although I'm probably on the way with nearly mortgage free and then a full time masters.

Superb. Well done.

[Fandango]

I'd restore retro cars, stick bigger more modern engines in old cars with a bit of character.

[d000hg]

I've always fancied a circumnavigation.

That sounds painful.

[Gibbon]

Probably a doctorate on the later Roman Empire and more research afterwards.

Although I'm probably on the way with nearly mortgage free and then a full time masters.

[Old Hack]

Sounds like a ball-ache. Just in the middle of a 6 month renovation at the minute. Despite having top notch builders it's been dragging. The problems I had with the council and neighbours has been doing my head in. All I've wanted to do is open up the downstairs by putting some steels in. Cost £3k just on the party wall surveyor.

I have done a few properties, and after each one, I state I'll never do it again. No matter how good the builders are, you will have a disagreement, and I have never known one that has ended amicably, so you spend the last X weeks of the project barely on speaking terms. An example would be laying oak floors. They wish to put them North South, you want East West, you go away, and they've done it north south, so you have to get them to take it up, buy some new ones, and put it how you wanted. Surveyors are robbing bastards. We had one who drew up plans for some townhouses. My wife and I backed off, as it was going to cost a serious amount of money to build, and I'd have had to take a year out to PM it, and the surveyor chips in saying he'd PM it for £140k.

Nah, lots of money to be made, if you do the right one, but it's just aggro. The last house we did, we purchased for £215k, spent 45k and It's going on the market for £325k next May, that after £48k in rent over the past few years.

Of course, I am doing it all next year...

[dogzilla]

I think I'd still work, albeit though probably buying and redeveloping properties.

Sounds like a ball-ache. Just in the middle of a 6 month renovation at the minute. Despite having top notch builders it's been dragging. The problems I had with the council and neighbours has been doing my head in. All I've wanted to do is open up the downstairs by putting some steels in. Cost £3k just on the party wall surveyor.

[Pondlife]

I would spend a lot of time on a nice big yacht. I've always fancied a circumnavigation.

I'd probably get my Dive instructor's ticket and bum around teaching the middle classes how nice it is to breath underwater.

Similar but I'd do research marine biology rather than being a teabag for brats.

[Moscow Mule]

I would spend a lot of time on a nice big yacht. I've always fancied a circumnavigation.

I'd probably get my Dive instructor's ticket and bum around teaching the middle classes how nice it is to breath underwater.