[Closed] Go on, who else is a Failure

If the £/Yr thing for graduates is a guide then I am doing pretty well considering I am not a graduate. Not earning £35k but not too far off and only 28. So I am almost successful!

Drac - Unless you were driving your own X6 or Cayenne then yes Sir, you are a failure of epic proportions!

Come on, where are all the teachers? I want to [b]fail[/b] your achievements...

No such luck TSY not even one of this plastic cars.

I would consider myself a failure if I measured my life in monetary terms.

I would consider myself a failure if I measured my life in monetary terms.

A poor man speaks - FAIL!

Ironic isn't it that when you are at your most desperate or ill or frightened you're probably going to be relying on failures to get you out of it.

Lets hope they can at least get something right. But frankly who'd trust the kind of idiot that would put others before themselves.

I actually live a rich and happy life 😀

edit: I measure success in my own life and not in comparison to others.

Failure here. Excuse the wintry conditions pun, but Drac and other pesky health professionals on here will also feel the Fail as the NHS pay 'freeze' (ie 'cut' in real terms) for next 2 years will make me even more of a failure at 35 than I am at 33. Yay!

My total household income wouldn't come close to that... not even in two years..

We've failed.. see how we hang our heads in shame

MSP - You want me to throw a golden spade until that hole you're digging yourself out of... who knows if you dig fast enough you might actually be a success!

All you Johnny-do-gooders living fulfilled but meagre existances have obviously never know the joy of looking down your noses at the unwashed prol's...

i'm a failure - by a considerable margin!

i would like to blame my parents and my friends, but most of all i would like to blame the entirely useless careers 'advice' i received at school.

(but it's probably entirely my own stupid fault)

I think most of you have this wrong, you need to earn 35K+ own a BMW 335D and a landrover 110.....awesome! 😆

I can't work out wether im a failed succes or a succesful failiure.

The Southern Yeti - Member

MSP - You want me to throw a golden spade until that hole you're digging yourself out of... who knows if you dig fast enough you might actually be a success!

All you Johnny-do-gooders living fulfilled but meagre existances have obviously never know the joy of looking down your noses at the unwashed prol's...

You can keep your golden spade, gold is clearly a bad material choice for a spade 😉
What makes you think I live a meagre existence? I don't I just readjusted my attitude a few years back to concentrate on more important things in life, concentrating on my life rather than the pursuit of wealth actually hasn't affected my earnings, I just enjoy what I have now rather than perusing more money and having no life, I wish I had come to that realisation 20 years ago, instead of being a slave to the system like you.

MSP - how about I lend you my platinum degorger?

Drac - Moderator
Me I am. 21 years of working for the NHS gaining a BHSc whilst working full time I'm a failure. At the weekend we dug people's paths clear of 2-3 feet of snow to get them out the house or risked injury carrying them over snow and sheet ice as time was critical. We drove at high speeds at times in frankly dangerous conditions to make sure we got them to hospital within the 'golden hour'. I delivered a baby and got it breathing as being born in a vehicle when it's -14c outside is a little traumatic for new borns.

But I can now safely say I'm a failure.

But are you a happy failiure?

Our esteemed money bags forumer forgets how many failiures are needed in life, from teachers, through NHS staff, police yadayadayada.

Best working days of my life were as a newly qualified staff nurse being paid crap all.

I think you should look at what value your life has to yourself, others and society than how much you earn.

Well by that reckoning I'm a failure.

(I'd prefer it if it was referred to as a "Glorious Failure" though, to save what little self respect I have)

🙂

twinklydave - I'm more than happy to help...
You are a Spectacular Failure!!... now on your knees, I wish to use you as a foot stool.

I probably only earn about £12,000 a year at the mo - but then I only work part time and I really like my job - plus it is making a positive contribution to society, even if only small. And I'm 30, and have 2 degrees!

Definitely a failure on money earning grounds, but then I made a conscious decision not to go into law or whatever like some of my friends, and I'm happy with that choice.

Plenty to live on if you share a house with another earner and don't have kids imo.

I do have a pair of forks that's RRP is £900 though. 🙂

It's the rich people who use money as an emotional crutch that get my goat!

£12,000

That would just about cover the annual smoked salmon budget of myself and my staff.

Amazing. Who would have thought all those post doc scientists with PhDs were total failures?
We should probably just have them all shot and let £100K p.a. accountants do all the technology research and development.

how about I lend you my platinum degorger?

If you meant disgorger then that is some very excellent work. 😉

never know the joy of looking down your noses at the unwashed [b]prol's...[/b]

fail.

WackoAK - Member

never know the joy of looking down your noses at the unwashed prol's...

fail.

why? Surely Orwell does not have the monopoly on finding abbreviations of Marxist terminology?

why? Surely Orwell does not have the monopoly on finding abbreviations of Marxist terminology?

But there's a misplaced apostrophe. Or it came to a premature end, and we're supposed to be looking down our noses at something belonging to the unwashed prol.

Ahh yes Torminalis, my fishing terminolgy is not up to scratch, I just catch them, my boy does all the messy stuff like touching them. TBH sometimes I don't even bother catching them, I let him do that too...

That would just about cover the annual smoked salmon budget of myself and my staff.

What a small household you employ, why didn't you use the blush emoticon?

But there's a misplaced apostrophe.

But surely the apostrophe replaces the 'e' which he left out (for some reason). 😉

Proletarian - someone belonging to the proletariate.
Poleterians - lots of the filthy buggers.
Prol's - an abbreviation of the above.

Out of my way! I'm just about to be carried to the gym.

grumm you must look forward to the day when you can afford a bike to atatch to them.

Can you retrospectively be a success. I was used to be a success. Honest.

I'm much happier now I'm not. I've managed my expectations. Downsized. I'm much more emotionally fulfilled now.

A good day is when Master Yeti doesn't whip us too harshly for failing to carry his Sudan Chair at a suitably lofty height as be demeans the local peasantry.

Oh.... and when he doesn't partake too heavily of the vintage bollinger of an evening. The other staff have started to refer to it as the sudan-carriers lament. That awful moment of realisation as the hovel door creaks open in the early hours........

I've not read the whole thread but less than £35K = Failure? WTF?
My wife was an Oncology Nurse Specalist and is now Clinical Wards Manager (new speak for Matron) at the UK's largest Juvenile and Adult Hospice. She earns just under that and is a failure?
That's made me chuckle. Some people do talk parp.

I used to be married to a very successful wife - you will however note the past tense.

Now I'm married to an NHS failure of a mother to my 2 children.
I'm a failure as well.

On the bright side I have just spent so much money on my son's bike for christmas that my more successful friend think I'm mad - but heh, I'm excited about going riding on christmas morning.

My dad always said "I was good for nothing & would come to nothing" - he was obviously right

I also think its poor-form to hint or tell anyone what you actually earn.

Partly because I wouldn't believe the person.

I was recently back in contact with my old best friend and I found out that he is now a senior Director for a PLC. Bloody chuffed and proud(?) is the right word I am.

Failure, service anyone? 😀

Im a failiure but not by much and im only 23 🙂

grumm - Member
I probably only earn about £12,000 a year at the mo - but then I only work part time and I really like my job - plus it is making a positive contribution to society, even if only small. And I'm 30, and have 2 degrees!

Just out of curiosity if you don't mind me asking - why did you do 2 degrees? Was it to further your education purely on a personal achievement level and to gain knowledge, or was it to further your career?

LOL - you're all so poor.

No wonder folk on here are always whinging about the cost of XTR

Are TheBikeChain is raising standards in the area of shop-monkey wages?

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

It's generally considered bad form to discuss salary matters in front of the children. Mine, by the way, are one of my measures of success or failure. Success on Sunday's ride around Swinley 😀 HUGE failure yesterday 😳

But are you a happy failiure?

I am and I'm also be flexible with the truth, my basic wage makes me a failure well just but add my shift allowance and I'm a roaring success.

I think Oldgit is getting close to enlightenment with his mother's quote about having your health. Certain occurances in life will make you realise it's only money, a house or a car......
Capitalism is showing the cracks in it's foundations big time now. I was very motivated by money for some time and it certainly has it's benefits but there's also plenty it can't buy.
Remember- "The things you own end up owning you".

At the end of the day money means nothing. I earn enough to be 'comfortable' in my eyes. That's all I need as long as I can provide for my family.

My family are my saviour. If it wasn't for them I'd be dead so I consider myself a success.

I'm a lucky bugger. I've got a fairly meaningful job, a family I love, a decent house and a couple of nice bikes.

I'm not a failure, by this measure or my own, but even so, I'm not sure I'm truly happy or fulfilled. An analyst might suggest that's pretty apparent from my fruitless attempts to find short term pleasure from buying shiny pieces of bicycle.

I think the bloke who posted the original comment is probably feeling a bit of a tool at the moment - but everyone's measure of success and fulfilment are different.