To want to know how all these people earn a living titting about all day?

[Pipbin]

Seriously, there is a guy on countryfile right now who is an expert on foraging, and there was another guy who was a free diver. Not to mention the two women who were artists.

I want these jobs. I want to spend all day just titting about and somehow still earn a living.

Me too! Watching people twatting about inventing things for boats and feeling very jealous...

I want to be one of those underwater cameramen, swanning about to exotic climates, diving, playing with fish and getting paid for it.

(Though I do wonder how true it is, and suspect they also work in call centres or claim dole but the TV show doesn't mention it)

I know, I have to do an actual job. Farmers, they work dammed hard, but all these other people who seem to do the sum total of fuck all that would earn living seem to get on fine.

I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who do non-specific jobs in management and banking that seem to be professional titting about but very well paid.

I want to be one of those underwater cameramen, swanning about to exotic climates, diving, playing with fish and getting paid for it.

But that is an actual job, it's not foraging or doing some paintings.

The forager probably lives in a commune and forages food. He doesn't need electricity and pays his other bills by selling his wares at the local farmers market.

The free diver is the child of a multi millionaire so doesn't need to work.

The artists hold workshops and sell their art for £££.

I want to be one of these people out in the countryside with a small studio making things out of driftwood but still paying the bills.

The forager probably lives in a commune and forages food. He doesn't need electricity and pays his other bills by selling his wares at the local farmers market.
He was far to clean and tidy for that. Very ironed shirt.

Being an artist isn't a job? Admittedly I'm not watching Countryfile, but surely being an artist is an actual job? Foraging, not so much, agreed.

I would love to be a worker on Countryside production, all that lovely travelling, what a job.

I knew someone who did that, Pipbin. He had to have a second job and he moved himself in with a friend of mine, so lived rent and bill free until he shagged one of their mates whilst babysitting they got sick of him.

"He was far to clean and tidy for that. Very ironed shirt."

Auntie did that for him to make him appear slightly more presentable.

I've been on Jimmy's farm. It's very peaceful.

DH does art all the time he's not doing an actual job. If you can make a living at it then you are doing very well.
Another family member is an artist and has never sold a painting, he teaches art now.

I've been on Jimmy's farm. It's very peaceful. But that is a farm, and they charge people to go there. That counts as a job.

On the likes of Location Location they say "Julia has a budget of £400,000 and needs an extra down stairs room for her aromatherapy consultations" - how the frigging frig?

I've met a few woman who are artists, one does lovely pencil drawings of people's houses for commissions. Another does landscapes, and will paint the odd dog. I've met another woman who makes interesting bits of pottery. All of these woman have DHs with very well paid jobs who keep the bills paid.

Titting about - my new phrase. Thank you!

To be fair, at least it's an honest days titting around and doesn't claim to be anything else. It's all the titting around instead of actually working at my place of employment that annoys me....just bloody get on with it!! Some people tit about all day in offices and get paid a fortune for it. It's two ends of the 'titting about' scale and both are ridiculous.

What a super thread

Wait, that woman paints pictures of other people's pet dogs, she doesn't paint dogs...

There was one location set in Scotland and hey wanted a workshop for some craft stuff the fella was going to make a business from selling. It was in the back arse of nowhere and I just thought How The Fuck is that an actual proposition on a mortgage application?

I think you need rich parents op

Then you can tit away to your hearts content!

I wonder MaryWestmacott if this might be it. Either partners who do actual real jobs or much inherited money.

Hmmm..I had a letter from a solicitor a week ago saying I had been remembered in a will. I wonder if it will be enough to give up work and tit about all day long?

Yup, Jimmy's got it sorted.

I have another pal who lives in a commune in a forest commune and earns money by telling stories and writing pamphlets. He really doesn't earn a lot though.

I knew a potter who used to make lamps. Then he got an order from a rather posh shop and I never heard from him again.

I also know a pilates teacher.

Julia's not paying for that, Sorry. Her DH/house downslze is.

I was reading last week's Sunday Times magazine this morning. There was an article about a woman who lives on a barge, running a 'floating bookshop' which she openly admits doesn't make enough money for her to live on, yet she eats her dinner in the pub every night. The whole time I was reading I was thinking, 'that looks amazing, but how does she afford to live? HOW?'

Tax credits? The IR don't ask questions as long as you file your return every year. 30 hours a week but earning 1k entitles you to working tax credits. I had thought they were sorting this out.