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[bigpaul]

(28 November 2012, 11:29)BDG Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 11:14)Barneyboy Wrote: s13 mate £50,000 year my point on the head it is easy for the rich to do better than the poor money opens doors being poor shuts them ,you are doing a job for £6.50 hour unless you pissed away the £50,000 you must have back up ,try living on £65.00 a week with no help from savings or mummy and daddy live in the real world mate .but that was a good rant pal as all ways

If you are earning £50k a year PAYE, you will be taking home £34K a year. To be presentable in a £50K a year job, you are going to need to wear a decent suit everyday - there is £300 for a suit, £100 for a shirt X 5 - there - replace once every six months thats £4k a year. Ten shirts at £100. £500 a year on two pairs of shoes and maintainace. BMW 5 series / AUDI A8 / Merc E Class - £300 - 500 a month depending on spec - £3600 - 5k a year. So we are talking over £10k a year to get to dressed and get to work.

You are not going to be taken serious driving a rotten 15 year old metro in a tesco suit to a £50k a year job.

Stick at least £6k on top of that for work related socialising - drinks, meals, golf, what ever, just so you keep your profile up.

You are soon taking home £20K a year from your £50K job, that is without fuel to get to and from work and paying your normal bills.

i think someones on the wrong forum, should be on the RichBoys Forum for Merc owners!! hell, 50K thats £1,000 per week thats bloody immoral!!

[Barneyboy]

(28 November 2012, 18:29)bigpaul Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 11:29)BDG Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 11:14)Barneyboy Wrote: s13 mate £50,000 year my point on the head it is easy for the rich to do better than the poor money opens doors being poor shuts them ,you are doing a job for £6.50 hour unless you pissed away the £50,000 you must have back up ,try living on £65.00 a week with no help from savings or mummy and daddy live in the real world mate .but that was a good rant pal as all ways

If you are earning £50k a year PAYE, you will be taking home £34K a year. To be presentable in a £50K a year job, you are going to need to wear a decent suit everyday - there is £300 for a suit, £100 for a shirt X 5 - there - replace once every six months thats £4k a year. Ten shirts at £100. £500 a year on two pairs of shoes and maintainace. BMW 5 series / AUDI A8 / Merc E Class - £300 - 500 a month depending on spec - £3600 - 5k a year. So we are talking over £10k a year to get to dressed and get to work.

You are not going to be taken serious driving a rotten 15 year old metro in a tesco suit to a £50k a year job.

Stick at least £6k on top of that for work related socialising - drinks, meals, golf, what ever, just so you keep your profile up.

You are soon taking home £20K a year from your £50K job, that is without fuel to get to and from work and paying your normal bills.

i think someones on the wrong forum, should be on the RichBoys Forum for Merc owners!! hell, 50K thats £1,000 per week thats bloody immoral!!

dont forget the suits and shirts cost a lot to look that good BP makes you want to send him a £10 dont it

[bigpaul]

(28 November 2012, 18:34)Barneyboy Wrote: dont forget the suits and shirts cost a lot to look that good BP makes you want to send him a £10 dont it

No, it bloody dosent, i never earned more than £100 per week my entire working life! and i paid tax, and i paid national insurance, and i paid into a company pension!

[Barneyboy]

(28 November 2012, 18:39)bigpaul Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 18:34)Barneyboy Wrote: dont forget the suits and shirts cost a lot to look that good BP makes you want to send him a £10 dont it

No, it bloody dosent, i never earned more than £100 per week my entire working life! and i paid tax, and i paid national insurance, and i paid into a company pension!

i no mate some people hay. that is a lot of money BP

[bigpaul]

(28 November 2012, 18:43)Barneyboy Wrote: i no mate some people hay. that is a lot of money BP

isnt it just? think of all the preps you could get with £50K! could get some land with that!!

[Barneyboy]

(28 November 2012, 18:48)bigpaul Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 18:43)Barneyboy Wrote: i no mate some people hay. that is a lot of money BP

isnt it just? think of all the preps you could get with £50K! could get some land with that!!

could get a nice bit of land down here ,not spend it on some suits fuck that

[bigpaul]

(28 November 2012, 18:50)Barneyboy Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 18:48)bigpaul Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 18:43)Barneyboy Wrote: i no mate some people hay. that is a lot of money BP

isnt it just? think of all the preps you could get with £50K! could get some land with that!!

could get a nice bit of land down here ,not spend it on some suits fuck that

i gave up wearing suits in 1980, went back to my roots(biker), dont give a monkies what people think of my clothes, stopped shaving and having hair cuts when my mum died in 1985..saved a fortune on haircuts and razors!!

[Scythe13]

(28 November 2012, 18:39)bigpaul Wrote:

(28 November 2012, 18:34)Barneyboy Wrote: dont forget the suits and shirts cost a lot to look that good BP makes you want to send him a £10 dont it

No, it bloody dosent, i never earned more than £100 per week my entire working life! and i paid tax, and i paid national insurance, and i paid into a company pension!

If you don't spend that on the suits, you don't get to that level of income.

Personally, I never paid into a pension. It seemed like a waste of time. I believe it better to invest in properties than to invest in a pension that is beyond my control. Unless the company has a £ for £ matching system, it wouldn't be worth me investing in a pension. Would rather self invest.

Anyway, what's wrong with earning money? Not complaining about it. But many people who have never earned that much money speak about what it's like, and they don't have a clue, because they've never been there themselves.

You're taking home more money in your pocket, earning £36.5k than earning £50k!!! Fun with progressive tax. You're £150 a month better off earning £50k than when you're earning £18k. So you work out who's going to make themselves look silly. Those that have been there and know what it's like, or those that imagine, but are only speaking from opinion, and not from experience!

Sorry to say this guys, but if you're telling me what it's like to work 13 hours a day, driving over 300 miles a day, 6 to 7 days a week, for 50 weeks a year, and you are only £150 a month better off at the end of the month, than when you were on £18K, then I honestly question your grasp of reality.

If you dress in a £100 suit, you're never going to earn high, unless you work for yourself. Speaking of which, if you're in a £100 suit, you're not going to do business with the big boys and make the big bucks.

If you're going to cry about someone earning a fair amount of money, then why not try to earn it yourself? It's doable for anyone that can be professional and is willing to give up their life for that wage.

[Barneyboy]

i thought it was the man not the suit but maybe im wrong ,anyway WTSHTF we are all in the same boat just some have further to fall

[Scythe13]

(28 November 2012, 19:17)Barneyboy Wrote: i thought it was the man not the suit but maybe im wrong ,anyway WTSHTF we are all in the same boat just some have further to fall

Some will be landing on their silver coated preps ;-)

Oh, and whoever said it was the man in the suit that gets the job, they're only half right. Dress a man like a tramp and he won't get the job. Dress the man in a cheap crap suit and put him surrounded by people in expensive suits that have reputations to uphold, and you might aswell have put him in fancy dress.