Johnsond
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I average 4-5 months a year off at home, I’ve worked on jobs close to home doing 8-10-12hr shifts. You are up and away before kids are up and back late. Eat sleep work 🤮absolutely crap. As much as it has its disadvantages it’s worked well enough for me.
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Do you have much real life experience rather than google and statistics?. Those numbers are crap. I don’t know anyone who does a 35-40hr week, I guess a lot depends on who you associate with in regards most people you meet. Most people I know are grafting hard and making good money, often 100k plus. Are they rich,absolutely not, what they are is hard working people who have trained themselves up and often as not sacrifice time with family etc to pull in good money. Those sacrifices unfortunately are not reflected in the brutal levels of taxation we are hit with.
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You obviously do. Contractors all over the country in different trades or disciplines. Forget Oil and Gas, construction, welding, lifting ops, aerospace engineering, IT, finance etc etc, guys who work away from home banging in 7x12hr shifts a week, Hinckley for example 🤷♂️. None of these will get the belter NHS pension neither. Doctors and Consultants are the only ones you know !! Conditions 42 “ seriously” I’d say the conditions they work under are better than 99% of the workforce. To be honest the amount of 100k plus people in the NHS, Police and Civil service etc is huge. Try the middle of the winter in the outer Hebrides living in a bunkabin and you will know what harsh conditions are. By the way everyone I know is pissed off big time about the level of taxation on hard working people in this country “ worse in Scotland “ , apart from the ones you know apparently.
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It doesn’t matter, it’s still not huge, I’m not condoning the cost of living or the current government. My instincts are conservative but this government is far from that. Less tax for those lower down would benefit everybody.
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Maybe so but many are not, the point is it’s not huge at all nowadays. The tax bands are a joke we all know that. 50k is not in anyway a “top earner” wage
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Labour calls Jeremy Hunt 'desperately out of touch' after Chancellor says £100,000 is 'not a huge salary' APPLE.NEWS Labour has called Jeremy Hunt "desperately out of touch" for claiming that £100,000 is not a... He’s not far wrong in reality, it’s a cracking wage but not huge by any means after tax and NI are factored in.
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No change I see you are doing what you always do 🤷♂️presume you know something then answer your own question as if its been confirmed somehow 😂laughable.
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No posturing 42 and I’m more than capable of ignoring shit, like I did with you right said fred remark a while back. But I will call our utter crap no problem at all. Thanks for the life advice but quite frankly 🖕
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No not at all, it was just very very easy to call out such blatant rubbish.
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🤷♂️Well I guess if the opportunity arose but at what cost. I was lucky enough to meet their mother’s grandfather in early 90s before he passed away. He fought in the Winter and Continuation wars, awesome old guy, hard as nails and a typical old Finnish male ie would often answer with a single word. Out the freezer creamy Kosken Korva was the welcome drink at his regardless of the time of day.
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They both live in UK Mick, there is a nationalistic streak in them regards their Finnish heritage hence the desire to complete National Service but in no way do they do it to hopefully kill Russians etc ( Although historically as you know there is no love lost) Im not sure if when you are young you even think of the bigger picture but regards NATO one was pro the other against, he believes we are taunting Putin both in Ukraine and elsewhere. Invasion well regardless of what they think I personally hope it doesn’t happen, the 3rd one is due to join next January, that would not be good to have 3 sons in that level of conflict.
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Why’s that Mike 🤷♂️because I called you out for spouting utter crap.
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If it’s even a sniff related to the topic not a problem. You tried being a smart arse commenting on something you have zero knowledge of. Unless that is you did your time in the forces or have sons that have served in the Finnish Army.
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It’s good to know that you care. I did see the odd bit of embarrassing shite such as this but as I said 🤷♂️just couldn’t be arsed to play.
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Insults 🤔 None of the above by the way. Calm and peaceful 🤣. No keyboard demonstrations I’m afraid. What I said was fact. Now if that offends you so be it. Like I said to 42 I was there on other threads or topics just couldn’t be arsed to respond to the childish shite I read on occasion.
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I see you have not lost that tendency to go with the wind at every opportunity 42
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What a bullshit factually incorrect post Mike. You seem to think you are the only one who’s ever travelled a bit or lived and worked in Scandinavia.
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You utter prick, Born in Northumberland, live in Aberdeenshire, served in the British Army. Two of my 4 sons have completed national service in Finland, 3rd due to go next January after completing his degree. I really wish you were stood in front of me right now so I could ask you to repeat that to my face.
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Your point doesn’t stand Mike One of the Norwegians is an ROV pilot the other a medic 🤷♂️neither have ever dived commercially . The Finnish and British or even Scots comments are just crap.
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Pure Bollocks in regards the Brits and Finns as for the Norwegian example I can’t say, I only know two Norwegian ex servicemen, both former navy divers and neither joined for the reasons you described.
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Finnish seem to make it work ok.
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We’re you ever in any of the armed forces Mark ?
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We will have to agree to disagree in particular regarding understaffing in the NHS. Mark I’ve just come back from Holland the guys I was working with there will be heading over here shortly 🤷♂️. The options are there if you have the skills.
