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I'm not.

Is he going to work through a large part of his holidays to support
himself or are you going to ride around on a written off bike so he
can have fun?

Supporting your children is something we all have to accept but they
also need to accept that they have to make sacrifices too. I don't
think either of your kids are selfish enough to believe that they have
a right to **** about for a large number of weeks every year while you
work to support them but there are some out there who do.

 

You are the new VoR.

Never thought I'd see the day...

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Spoken like an EKS. A gap year of travelling is something everyone
should do if they get the chance. However, once you're on a career
path in, for example, the civil service, it's very hard to arrange.
Much easier to arrange between school and college, even if it means
the parents finding the money.

 

Fair enough.

That was pretty much what my parents did for me. My fees were paid by
the LEA and my parents paid the halls bill and anything necessary to
the course (ie books). Beer etc came from me.

The other way to look at it, is as a cheap stoozing fund. My brother
did this, took the full loans and slung them into high interest
accounts and ISAs. Made quite a tidy profit and then paid them off in
full about 6 months after graduation.

 

2% or something silly though. It's as good as free money as you're
going to get.

 

Or road numbers even.

This morning, going up the M40, there was a sign that said something
like: "A21 closed after A260". Since I don't have a clue where these
are, I assumed that it wouldn't affect me.

 

I think so!

I knew where I was; I even knew where I was going.

I know that the roads weren't part of my route, but didn't know whether
they were in the area or whther knock-on effects of the closure would
be apparent.

After I left to M40 I was filtering pretty much for the rest of the
journey anyway but whether this was just slightly heavier rush hour
traffic than normal or due to the road closures I know not.

 

I assume you replied before seeing my reply to Champ.

 

4.8% currently, so not that good, not bad either.

 

But knowing road numbers, junction numbers is not needed for that. If
I look at a map and write directions then generally it's name of
town / direction of travel. I'll pop in junction numbers for motorways
to make sure I leave at the right exit, but not if I am going
somewhere I know.

I could without consulting a map navigate my way from say home to
Glasgow but I wouldn't have a clue what junctions or once off
motorways what road numbers.

 

I managed to navigate from the A16 near Dunkirk to Neuville-en-Ferrain
by glancing at the map[1], picking a town in the vaguely correct
direction and following road signs. And I only went wrong twice!

[1] I had printed off several sections from Google maps.

 

Yes. I had one of the old-school style loans that was 2.4%. '96-'99
this was.

 

I've never worked as a filthy contractor who could afford to take
extended holidays and (apart from fiddling work trips to suit myself)
I've never had more than two weeks holiday at a time.

All my family have had a fairly rigid view towards holidays being
something you earn and I don't see it as a bad thing.

 

Blame it on my parents. Their view was that if I wanted toys and
holidays after my 'O' levels then I had to pay for them. They'd lend
me the money rather than me paying stupidly high interest rates but
the money had to be paid back or I'd never be able to stand on my own
two feet.

 

I can't think of ever having more than two to two and a half weeks at
a time, except on a fiddled work trip.

It's a good thing: it means you don't run up silly debts paying for a
holiday you can't afford.

 

Luxury. Borrowing from the parents was never an option for me.
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I don't either. But there are other equally legitimate views.

I took a gap 3 months after college and before starting work to buy a
share in a VW Microbus and drive overland with some friends to India.
We'd planned to drive on to Katmandu but the road was down so we flew
the last leg from Benares. I couldn't have done any of that without a
contribution from my mother.

My mother didn't, as you advise, tell a little fucker like me to turn
down that opportunity - I imagine because she guessed that, like you,
I'd probably never be able to afford to take an extended holiday, and
she didn't want me to miss the opportunity of a lifetime. As it
happens her general approach to life was always to make sacrifices for
her kids and, in due course, for her grandchildren. TBH I'm surprised
to hear you say that's something you'll never understand.

 

We (more Adie than me) pay for all sorts of shite for Sophia (the
grandchild) but we don't pay for Jennifer (the child) to go on
holiday.

If Jennifer is in the shit because of some kind of financial disaster
then she'll be helped out but if she fancies a holiday then she won't
even think of asking and nor would we offer.

 

Beelzebub wrote:

I've just booked 3 years off unpaid to go to Belge.

 

Friend of mine took a year out from the Civil Service to travel, and
seems to have done well from it. Came back with a lot of new
evidential ticks in boxes for their competency system.