I really do.
Sorry and all that but I didn’t benefit from the boom, particularly so why should I have to suffer the bust?
Let me explain; I work hard for a living but in a job that will never yield massive riches. It satisfies me intellectually and emotionally and leaves time for my creative pursuits. I accept the trade off between satisfaction and renumeration. I have no shares, no mortgage, a small amount of savings, I drive a 15 year old car, I save for what I want, and my credit card (once a wasteland of debt and overspending) now boasts a measly and respectable balance.
Now I’m being told that I should tighten my belt – but I never got to loosen the damn thing. Doom and Gloom abounds, but I never got to be frivolous and wasteful. It’s not fair. I didn’t speculate, I am not a developer, I am not even a pawn of a developer because I don’t own a house. I pay my tax and I get nothing back, I can;t get a medical card, or social welfare supplements. I am that much maligned animal, the middle-class, educated worker. I am not eligible for the helping hand of the welfare system nor am I rolling in money and shares with a holiday home in France.
So, and here’s my stance on the whole matter. I refuse to participate. Go have your recession, you had your boom without asking me. I’m going to sit here in the corner listening to 80s music and contemplating the passage of time…someone come get me when the Lottery in on?
