Well as my forum friends have answered seriously I guess I should. I actually would like to run adventure trips, I’ve done a bit of that self organised and have travelled the world doing it. Cant see much money in it though. Right now I am building houses and tiling after running a major part of a large electronics company for many years. I don’t ever want to go back to working in an office (my background is high end engineering but when you get promoted and have 20 managers reporting to you then you get to push a mouse around Excel 24/7 … great!) but its been hard to resist as headhunters call me and both property and tiling are massively hit by recession. So in effect I’m already doing the things I’ve dreamed of during many hours of sitting in airport lounges. If property and tiling doesn’t work out I wont go back to the electronics industry I will probably emigrate and start a new life in property and tiling (and possibly start the adventure thing once financially secure) somewhere with a better economy and weather. I’ve already discussed this with my partner who’s really up for it. I have two sons, one is first year at college studying science and the other first year at uni studying civil engineering, I don’t want to upset that right now so I will give my business ventures one more year – then if its not working out – I’m off! … this sounds really sappy – but ref my presence here; I genuinely enjoy working with ceramics, stone and anything related, even though it doesn’t pay anywhere near going to work in a suit each day. I know you’ll find that hard to believe.
