Contract tracing app

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by rustbucket, Sep 26, 2020.

  1. If I remember correctly the total family income had to be less than £25k a year so very few middle class people would fit in that bracket.
     
  2. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    The application was interested in certain types of taxable "income" in that special way that excluded dividend income which it deemed a private matter. Make of that what you will.
    As it happened by the time he got to uni he was better off than we were for those years.
     
  3. You're old-school, many parents today would consider that as throwing him to the lions ..

    Better off for it though - no doubt

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  4. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    By 15 he was earning £80/week delivering papers buttering up the old folks and clearing £400 in Christmas tips. By the time he left for Uni he was working in a cardboard box factory full time as well. He carried on doing that in his holidays and some weekends as well as a lot of other money saving ducking and diving and climbing into festivals and such. Chip off the old block. :)
     
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  5. Tell that to the kids of today , wouldn't lower themselves to a paper round !
    At 14 I had an evening round , by 15 I had morning and evening rounds as well as a regular car washing round and collected glasses in the local pub - all so I could race mi old BSA scrambler...

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  6. Sunday paper round was a killer..:eek:
     
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  7. Day of rest you ungodly heathen !
    (But yes , the supplements were a killer...)

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  8. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    That’s us, then.
     
  9. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    At 15, I worked all my school holidays and managed to save up for my first moped, a Suzuki ER50, which I rode to school the following January, on my 16th birthday.
     
  10. OO an ER50. I had one as my first bike, then a MTX 50 - not nearly as fast,
     
  11. When was that 1967?
     
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  12. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    not long ago, all this ***** , eee by gum, kids today, back in my day yadda yadda, some things are hard, some things were hard somethings will be hard , suggesting anyone other that olden days folks have it hard is tosh
     
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  13. Not long ago as in 80's ? 90's ? 70's ? because if it up to early 90's you would have had a government grant and wouldn't have needed to do your paper round or eat pasta. After that you would have had to pay (except for tuition fees) like I did.
     
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  14. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    Agreed, it's utter rubbish.
     
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  15. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    It's upbringing but also some kids just dive in and get on with it. My eldest - from birth got on a relaxed level with anyone of any age, had a 2 week puberty where he turned into "not fair" Kevin then snapped straight out of it! He's been self sufficient since he was 12 and there were times while he was still at school when he had more disposable income than we had. He dressed better! He also had fair warning he'd be on his own if he chose uni and behaved accordingly...which we knew he would.

    Youngest is the extreeeeeme opposite.
     
  16. Dropped off daughter 19 at Sussex Uni, a campus Last week. She was planning to get a bar job ( had one this last year) to pay living and we pay for the halls. But its a police state there, Sounds awful and with more restrictions on the way and pretty much all online.....( so might as well watch you tube) its no life. She’s packing it in, no library to use just a crappy cheap hall room to sit in on a out of town campus with the most expensive Coop in the country for their use, and people getting expelled for meeting more than 6 etc .. The rip off education has become is only more obvious under current restrictions. at this rate the Universities will have to close..cant teach and cant provide any real appeal .. though you might get a decent job After wards to pay of debts incurred , yes no ,maybe .
     
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  17. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    it spanned over many many manyyears and into the 2000s , ive seen and be part of several systems. no its not fair here, i dont care what anyone else did or didnt get, i got what i got and thats what i adapted to
     
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  18. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    sorry to disapoint early 1990s 2012 ish
     
  19. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    We are just glad our daughter is in second year, out of halls, sharing a flat with one other student. As she is doing biology, working around biohazards was a part of the routine last year. As she is doing a science degree, contact time for labs is still required. So its worth attending the university if you are doing the kind of degree that needs practical work.

    But for many 'soft' degrees, where its all writing, listening and talking, you might as well sign up for on-line units from home while hanging around at home.

    Maybe this will lead to an increased percentage of engineering and science graduates going into politics, as the other categories have fewer people graduating, and we might end up with sane industrial, manufacturing and energy policies lead by facts rather than personalities.

    Please can we have Angela Merkel when Germany has finished with her ?
     
  20. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    My daughter is in final year at Sussex. She has loved it there.
    Hopefully Covid will go away soon and uni life can return.
    There is a massive Asda not far away. That is where my daughter would shop.
     
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