What do you wish youd done different?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Pennineman:

eagerbeaver:
I wish I would have listened at school…

You and me both EB !

It doesn’t always work like that though,.I didn’t do too badly with exams at school,.and I still ended up doing this ■■■■. :unamused:

I do see your point that no real academic qualifications are necessary to be a driver, and to be honest with the minimal skills required today, you could train an above average chimp to do it…(in fact when you look around today at some with Class1s, it looks like they’ve actually already done that :unamused: :laughing: )

It was a lifestyle choice for me, but it was at the time when the job was actually good, decent money with a social life side attatched to tramping,… before most of you started parking in lay bys for 9 ■■■■ hours. :unamused:
I’m amazed that anybody could consider it actually an ‘‘attractive proposition’’ as a long term career today. :open_mouth:

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Too many regrets to be bothered to list [emoji25]

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wish id never started doing the lottery..now i cant stop after about 30 odd years..or whenever they started..now up to £40 a month..even direct debit in case i miss one.. :smiley: :smiley: Wish id have met my current missus a lot earlier…but have been with her for over 30 years…so not a bad innings for my 3rd one…ha ha

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I’ve just had my tea whilst watching the F1 race from Sunday. They showed Michael schumachers son in the Ferrari pits as a guest. This got me wondering if Michael regrets (if he has the mental capacity) earning many millions of euros and having a great life right up to the point of the skiing accident or does he regret not using his driving talent to become a lorry driver (Lkw-Fahrer) [emoji848]

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Just to add. My point being as a trucker I can’t afford to go skiing or do any sort of adventurous pastimes so I’m staying safe in my boring little world whereas Michael could and did afford to do absolutely anything he wanted which no doubt was fantastic while it lasted but now…

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raymundo:
Worse thing I ever did was to go to sea but the funny thing is after 54 years I’m still bloody doing it … :frowning: :frowning:

Hey who knows, 35 years later and I may have regretted it too, but I’ll never know now, not unless we get another go on the merry go round !!

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hutpik:
Wish i’d moved up to Northern Sweden much sooner for the ‘quality of life’.

What’s the female to male ratio up there? There’s no point being surrounded by available females - if there’s even more hairy-arsed blokes about to compete with… :wink:

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nomiS36:
Just to add. My point being as a trucker I can’t afford to go skiing or do any sort of adventurous pastimes so I’m staying safe in my boring little world whereas Michael could and did afford to do absolutely anything he wanted which no doubt was fantastic while it lasted but now…

Someone is looking out for Mick though, he got 2nd fastest in the Ferrari, you can see where that’s going and knock a bit of spirit into F1

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Winseer…Surprisingly it almost 50\50,but hey,if someone as old and ugly as me can pull then everones in with a chance.As most people seem to have a good standard of living there are many possibillities to meet people skiing,snow scooter,fishing and quad driving,as everyone is into outdoor activities[i mean all].Saunas and parties are the thing ‘‘a la viking’’.

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I wish I had been self employed at 15 rather than at 20 ,I’am glad I didn’t listen at school .

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In the ‘Wizard of Oz’ Dorothy is walking along the yellow brick road when she comes across a fork & doesn’t know whether to go left or right.

The correct answer is if you don’t where each road leads to . . . then it doesn’t matter.

There have been, & still will be, many times in your life when you reach a fork in the road, or even a crossroads. If you know where each road will take you but you choose to make a wrong decision then that is called ‘self harming’.

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I wish I had pushed my boss harder and taken the job in Saudi Arabia when I was 22 , right at the beginning of all the expansion and development. I actually trained all the managers that went out there . Three years tax free wages at double my then rate straight into my UK account , all accommodation and meals paid for plus a local living allowance. I also wouldn’t have ended up married to my first wife .

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hutpik:
Winseer…Surprisingly it almost 50\50,but hey,if someone as old and ugly as me can pull then everones in with a chance.As most people seem to have a good standard of living there are many possibillities to meet people skiing,snow scooter,fishing and quad driving,as everyone is into outdoor activities[i mean all].Saunas and parties are the thing ‘‘a la viking’’.

That’s the nail on the head there young man. :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :blush:

I’ve always thought I could manage with just the one decent women with a strong bedroom ethic.
Trouble is, that part OF that ethic - is that she “sometimes comes home with a friend she used to know from school” which is a great thing indeed, if she went to a girls grammar, but no good at all if she went to a mixed comprehensive. :frowning:

The best and easiest way to get a 2:1 ratio F to M around your place - is to live in an area where the entire 20-40 aged population happen to be 66F:33M so there is enough crumpet to go around at all times.

I once had a mate who used to say he had two girlfriends, one a nurse on night shift, the other a daytime shop worker - who’d swap over “handover style” at around breakfast time each morning, whilst the mate himself was working a zero hours contract as a mainframe operator…
There was me thinking “Yeh Yeh, Sure Baz!”, until one day I dropped around his place in Croydon during the morning rush hour - only to find him answering the door, with a bird getting ready to go to work at C&A judging by the uniform… She’d obviously just spent the night there. She went to work, and then there was a knock on the door whilst mate was putting the kettle on, and lo and behold - this Nurse turns up, chucks her coat on the unmade bed, acting “familiar”, and starts getting some groceries out of her shopping bag, with bacon etc. to make the three of us some brekkie, even though I’d turned up out of the blue!

… I never doubted what he said to me again, after that - especially when it turned out the two ladies were friends themselves, and were quite happy with this arrangement, as it got them “free accommodation in Croydon” 'cos my mate covered the rent on the flat himself, whilst they just got the shopping in. Hmmm! Flat sharing AND Boyfriend Sharing! Who would have thought?

I flirted a bit with this nurse, but she was a bit stuck up actually, and made it apparent that “this was an arrangement” that I could not possibly compete with, not having a trendy flat, flash car, or well-paid job like my mate had, and I didn’t at that time. :blush: