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i think your right scoop, unfortunatly to a a certain board hoping trouble maker who hounds pete over several boards, that post was a bit of a gift horse to be taken full advantage of. A shame, pete was always good fun on here.

lets be having a blue day today please. . . .

bloody hell Ken, sorry to hear that news mate, thoughts and best wishes are with you.

just keep your eyes out looking at them dodgy wobbly trees mate :)

billy, just dont mention the magic numbers (good song that was back in the day)

lol pete, that is so funny. id miss the f'king barrel and knock myself out on the floor.

kids bounce back quickly craig, and im sure your friend would have prepared them for what was coming as best he could.

craig they sure do mate, health before wealth is definately the way to go. Hope your friends children are doing ok mate, i truly feel for them.

pete, this board and the barmy wide variety of topics and chat on here from all the regulars make it the greatest on lse, and its always a good giggle to read, (except billys rubbish sp predictions) variety is the spice of life as they say so keep it coming mate.

ps thought of you today when i saw this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-47171223

Aether

Quite welcome mate, glad some of my pontifications are helpful, you take good care of yourself too and keep a focussed and positive frame of mind, that is the second most important thing, after keeping friends and family close of course as you say.

DT

Aether,

im definately no boffin, best qualification i have is a HND in Building Services Engineering from the early 1990's, so im well out of touch with further education as i have no great career aspirations personally, and would always choose experience over paperwork. I would however listen to the tutors and take their guidance as, although they have vested interests and want the next years students fees, their fingers would be more on the pulse id like to think.

My current job is very technical and detailed, in essence i protect public health and help to prosecute business who break legislation, and im dreading going back to work, having had my fair share of chemotherapy recently with more to come. I can fully sympathise and understand what chemo brain is like and understand your nervousness about it affecting your abilities - i know it affects mine, and your right to avoid stress (humour is my salvation as i can laugh at anything). But do remember your still you mate and things will improve.

My advice, if at all possible but depends on your own circumstances, would be to take your time with any decisions, no rushing if you dont need too, and dont get chasing a tough job or studies if you dont actually need to to fund your lifestyle, take things easier if you can till you recover your strengths over time. Make your lifestyle fit in with you not your life fit in with your lifestyle.

Contacting the med school to get the facts before making a choice about binning the degree is a great idea, id definately do that, and as you have already done a couple of years for the HNc in electrical engineering id treat that as a safety net with potential in the meantime, especially as you enjoy it and find it straight forward, but keep it up.

Good luck with what you decide to do, but as i say take your time making the right decision for you.

crikey they've set mikey a tough target to get his £10m payout.

Double profits to £2billion or share price upto 21e.

Still he's not going to want to miss out so sounds like a bit of confidence to me and i'll take either.

aether, sorry to hear that mate, hope your on the mend, stay positive.

Can you not look into something that the work youve done so far for your degree can be transferred to, rather than a totally new direction where you'll start from scratch?

kind of mate, an uncle of mine once told me to 'use what youve got to make more' and as a self made multi millionare i listened, good advice that has served me well. Ironically i intended to keep occupied with a bit of shelf stacking when i first retired just to keep busy, decided the wages werent worth the effort.

ken, here here. Thats exactly what im planning, already have north of £300k in rdsb and the income is so stable its almost like a wage every 3 months anyway. Tell your mrs from me she's mad not to go for it.

billy, my dads the same, still driving his truck 4 days a week at 70. That generation were brought up to be hard workers mate, couldnt afford it you went without, none of this living on credit cr@p. Take my hat to those sorts of people but also wish they'd slow it down a bit, am always on my dads back about it.

sounds good scoop. Furthest ive ever been is on honeymoon, spent 5 weeks camped in the middle of the Masi Mara during the animal migration on safari, armed guards private plane the full explorer monty, absolutely unbeleivable experience, but bloody hard work and cost me thousands. Can still see the wife doing tribal dances with the local tribes lol. Next most exotic place has been the Canaries a few dozen times and Scarborough for a day trip.

ken, gotta do it while you can mate, ive learned that lesson the hard way this last 12 months. its no coincidence that health and wealth are spelt very similar. Can see the wifes point of view, i love my job too, but you never know when the option of doing what you want can suddenly disappear from your options list. Grab it while you are able.

sounds great billy, and certainly better weather than here in miserable Plymouth for sure. Still in the reasearch/wishfull thinking stage at the moment while i get the verdict from the doctors, but on good news it'll be happening :)

scoop, thats the plan mate, had my license since the late 80's so have 7.5 ton entitlement permamently, so looking at something rigid around 8-9 metres long as it'll become the main 'home'. 5th wheels are artics in essence and flippin mahoosive, so need the hgv ticket for those ones