LOL - you're all so poor.
No wonder folk on here are always whinging about the cost of XTR.
Graduated in July and currently on less than £12k 😆 ****ing awful really but it's sort of my fault for having no interest in a "normal" career.
Can I be a failure too?
i am a failure...............however me and mrs ton combined are affluantish. 8)
I earn more in a month than you lot do in a week
Epic fail here, never mind, I do spend too much on bikes though. Probably should try and manage my obsession/addiction a little better.
Yes, I'm a failure. I fail my [s]expensive[/s] bikes. They have a failed woman attempting to ride them.
Mind you, I try to live my life as a decent person with compassion for my fellow citizens. So does [b]THAT[/b] make me a failure too?
Luckily I'm totally awesome success, and as such can afford a car made out of real metal rather than an airfix model with some bits missing.
I don't tend to have too much concern for fellow citizens - they create their own problems.
Looking out for loved ones is pushing it at times......
BTW, I was joking - I held a door open for someone the other day.
Luckily for them they said thanks.
I hate the general public 😛
Measure yourself not by the money you earn but by the amount of time you get to spend on STW.
When you realise it's too much and you have to ban yourself. But still come on to post... you're a failure.
I wish surf mat wasn't banned right now!
Ooh, ooh, ooh, me, me... me, can I be his Awesomeness for the night?
20% of my time earned me 80% of my income so I settled for 80% more time and 20% less income - the big failure was in not doing it years ago
I am, by the £35k standards, living in abject poverty.
Actually - sometimes it feels as though I am! But... really... I don't think I am all that bothered. I get to live somewhere stunning, I work outdoors, and I get pretty good freedom to organise myself and do the things I want (like take detours whilst at work to get lost for an hour or so taking photographs!)
I was rich once mind, although I spent all I earned and more, so being poverty stricken and just doing without isn't really all that bad. Mostly out of debt at the moment... well... once I clear that pesky credit card again (I had a moment of weakness in a guitar shop!)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, me, me... me, can I be his Awesomeness for the night?
Fixed that for you TSY 😉
Awesome. 😀
Edit: I'll have to ask the Mods if they can remove the tag tomorrow! Any idea of when Surf-Mat returns? He may well be displeased.
Awsomeness approved. carry on.
I'm posting this whilst doing freestanding handstand press ups...
One hand is typing... the other is counting my cash, unless I'm 250, I'm quite a major success it would seem.
Oh dear, he's lost the plot. 🙄
I don't think I can handle the responsibility. 🙁
Are you sailing your yacht or driving your BMW? (of course I know that you're also having full consentual intercourse simultaneously).
With 3, yes, [b]3[/b] women! All of them are far more Awesome than any that you've ever laid your sad little eyes upon.
I earn a reasonable amount more than our failure/success threshold, but that is set not to last. Some days that eats me up ("how will I survive on a £40k paycut?") and others I shrug my shoulders and concentrate on things I consider more important.
I read something simple, but wise, once: the people who determine what we mean by success are workaholics.
I must be regressing.
I was earning the exact requisite amount that appears to denote success when I was 29. Now I'm 31 and am some £5K off target again.
My own personal core failure is an inability to resist women of a mentally unstable nature...3 in a row now!
£35k a year actually isn't that much, I would set the bar higher. I reckon if you earn less than £75k you are a loser. Worse than a loser in fact, you are a bummer.
Modern life is now measured by inome rather than how fit your bird is"........
Wonder if my bird is better than yours will get mentioned soon
Earning lots of money is easy, it all depends how much of a nasty ****er you want to be.
I actually regret not taking the dark path myself. I wish I could be ruthless enough to just charge through the sensibilities and rake it in. Be it strimming people's pension funds or giving it to them up the ass in bankers bonuses, I just couldn't do it. I'm weak, that's my problem.
I'd be retired now. Great big house, no debts, plenty of money stashed away. All I would have had to do was be a ruthless tosser in the city for ten years. I've met these people, lots of them, they're generally thick as ****. Possibly a bit too thick to understand how marching over everyone is nasty. Which is nice for them. Like that Stuart bloke, he's got an M3 you know, I couldn't afford one of them.
If you asked Stuart he'd say that's because he's smarter than me.
What a funny place the world is.
Apparently Im a failure according to that theory, but I thought I was doing alright! I certainly aint starvin! But I suffer for it by living in the hole that is London!
However I dont care as im pretty hot at riding a bike! Sure its not a ferrari and 250k a year but I can pull whips and skid like a mofo!!!! hahahahaha
i would probably be classed as a failure too.
but i dont care cuz i'm happy 
20% of my time earned me 80% of my income so I settled for 80% more time and 20% less income - the big failure was in not doing it years ago
Exactamundo.....I think, self employed and now making more out of less. Had my hand forced by some of the less savory characters you encounter in business, in fact they had me filing for bankruptcy, though I never went through with it.
The changes it forced were in the end changes for the best.
I have an accountant to, she turns me into a failure each year 🙂 bless her.
Or as my mum says 'at least you've got your health'.
A saying that just used to go over my head, but as Ive grown older it carries more weight. When I hear people talking about investments, pensions etc and see them struggling to get in and out of the car they have on finance. I can't help but wonder if their priorities are in the right place?
And to those who reply with 'you only live once' well if that means being dead at fifty then I want to live twice.
From what I can gather from the Motherland, it's the people who aren't technically failures who have made the UK the failure that it is today?
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.
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...
