to move DD from her nice independent school where she has a scholarship because her brother didn't get offered one? (PART 2)

[middleschoolmuddle]

...just in case there is something else I need to hear.

stop attention seeking OP and go and do something useful with your life

You must be very bored OP. But perhaps you could look at creative writing options in your career search to help protect this CV of yours.

And fair dos if your son wants to be a paeleantologist but surely, surely you reinforced that it's the love of the job and not the moolah that counts?

Fair point, Word.

well word except for when they remove the students with the special needs...

OP - I'm going to nominate you for the MN secret Santa and send you the present myself: a framed photo of Carol Middleton!

Some do, some don't yolo.

The most academically selective schools nearly all have a contingent of the cohort with special needs.

can your DD ask yacht boy if the reason he is being kept out of the way of the buses at a mediocre day school in East Anglia is because his father can't afford boarding school fees?

Maybe he can afford the fees, and to buy the school but wants his son in a more mixed environment/

APot Best case scenario= a job that you love + moolah
[Where is Xenia when you need her?]

Maybe his family don't want to termly baording?

Xenia is off on another forum I frequent. Making people who can't breastfeed feel like shit.

Ah good ole Xenia....

There is something quite depressing about a small child asking 'what a paleontologist earns' rather than what exciting things a paleontologist might do. And an OP being quietly delighted that he's so financially astute.

Comments like that do carry a whiff of the underbridge. But I think you realise that, don't you, MSM?

OP, you are making me wish with all my heart that I wasn't signed off work for 2 weeks. I am missing using my brain and feel terribly sorry for you, that this appears to be where you feel yours is best occupied.

Now that's the truth middle

I know folk who love their job and earn a packet.
I know folk who love their job and earn peanuts.
I know folk who hate their job and earn a packet.
I know folk who hate their job and earn peanuts.

One of these scenearios beats the other three

There is every reason not to be discussing your own family's financial affairs at age 13 with other 13 year olds. That is just gauche and crass.

Some people are gauche and crass, some people where ever they come from want you to know what they have. I have come across this in all walks of life, from many different people from different walks of life and levels of society.

I think I've found YB's twitter feed

My Yacht is too boring...

I think its an excellent idea for children to think about what a career involves, along with what qualifications you need and how much you earn doing it. and a child who asks about how to become a paleontologist, and thinks about how much money you can earn doing it, is actually much more likely to become one, I would have thought, than one who just thinks - dinosaurs.. cool.. and leaves it at that.

Potnoodle I'm off sick too.

After 5 weeks, my brain is mush.

this isn't helping but it passes the time.

There'd be an even bigger shortage of nurses if everyone really did think like that, oranges

Aww Dean sorry to hear that... Are you well on the road to recovery?

Same here Bring, I was also brought up to think of it as tacky, and guess what I thought it was tacky my DB who was told exactly the same, didn't...I guess that is what you will find..

I am, thanks noodle. You?

Yes, thank you :) just a laparoscopy so pretty uncomfortable rather than 'ill' as such... Pretty sure my brain may explode tho if OP is allowed to continue this thread

My Dad used to flush his pay packet down the toilet, my mum didn't even know what he earned.

DH and I share the finances (that's how his parents did it) but I hold the purse strings (despite not earning) as DH really isn't that interested in managing the money.