You don’t have to live in St Albans. There’s tons of cheaper places within driving distance.
Tough nuts old bean. I did well, I’m proud of it, I felt like sharing it. Bollocks to this terribly British notion of false modesty and bullshit humblebragging. I’m happy with the results I’m getting.
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Lol. Implying that my generation can afford cars in their twenties!
Its like SOS’s shock that I was trying to get a ‘proper’ job when I ‘haven’t even been travelling!’.
You old fogies don’t have a clue do you? 
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That’s fine, but don’t bemoan how you come across then…
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I am your generation you fuckwit.
By the way, you ain’t going to get far as an audit clerk without a car…
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You have a point - but its just honestly how I prefer people behave when they’re the ones speaking to me. I just sincerely prefer people who are upfront and direct - I wear my heart on my sleeve and I like it when other people do the same.
Let me give an example
“Hey guys, I won that poker tournament! I’m over the moon!”
“Oh nice one man, how much did you win?”
“Five grand! I’m delighted!”
“Ah that’s fantastic, drinks are on you though!”
“Hey guys…psssh…*lights fag*…yeah…so…yeah I won last night”
“Oh yeah? How much?”
“Ah a nice little cash…”
“How much?”
“Psh…'bout…five grand I think? Yeah it wasn’t bad”
etc.etc.
You get the idea.
I massively prefer person 1. He’s happy. He’s comfortable saying he’s happy. Its understandable that he’s happy. He’s not being an arsehole pretending that the 5k cash means nothing to him and so on.
I’ll have a rum and coke.
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Why does everything come back to money?
31, so 5 years.
How many years counts as a generation in your mind?
Oh ffs. Because its the way you keep track of the score when playing Poker.
Fine. Replace the Poker example with goals-a-season for your Sunday league team or whatever. You get the idea.
31…psh…borderline I’d say!
Yep, all those 5 year old parents eh?
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Originally posted by @MrTrampoline
Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
Originally posted by @MrTrampoline
It isn’t that I can’t work outside of London - its the fact that the rent in St. Albans is fucking expensive and I doubt I can find a place that quickly if it’s a January start. I don’t even know what the salary is in terms of personal budgeting!
I’d gladly move to Leeds or Manchester! I’d be equally fine with St. Albans in September - but relocating with a month’s notice is pretty challenging.
You don’t have to live in St Albans. There’s tons of cheaper places within driving distance.
Lol. Implying that my generation can afford cars in cars in their twenties!
Its like SOS’s shock that I was trying to get a ‘proper’ job when I ‘haven’t even been travelling!’.
You old fogies don’t have a clue do you?
Get a bus and stop moaning. You could live at your parents and commute. Get your mum to make your sandwiches. It’ll help you save.
Why do you consider the jobs your attempting to get as proper jobs?
Which jobs are improper for you?
Have a little think about who’s coming across as clueless.
I’d say a generation changes each year. Only people born in my year of birth are of my generation. Possibly even only people born under my star sign.
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hippotarius?
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I know someone like that, who shows off about scoring goals/winning money etc.
We call him Captain Bullshit, bantz of course. But you hear these things and your automatic thought is not to believe them, even if it’s true.
We are definitely the same generation, and most of the people I am friends with, or work with, are also this generation, which is why a lot of your whinnying doesn’t sit right with me.
A generation =/= grandparent/parent/child.
The socioeconomic and political circumstances can change radically in 5+ years. A kid graduating in 2003 vs a kid graduating in 2008 would find things markedly different in the job market and two duplicates of the same person plonked into those two different scenarios could easily find themselves taking very different paths in life.
This thread is becoming mildly ridiculous
Probably why the goat has turned up.
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So, what is a generation in your eyes then? I need to know what your rules are so we can all abide by them.
Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one I’m afraid.
My Grandad’s parents couldn’t afford shoes for him to go to school in. Later in his life he couldn’t afford the £600 to buy his house (which the landlord recently sold for £180k) so ended up renting. Things weren’t that different 5 years ago Tramps. People still struggled to find a half decent job and wonder how the fuck they were ever going to afford a family.
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