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No worries :cheers: As someone who is fighting against grumpy old man syndrome, a phenomenon that has been around since Roman times and beyond, with the old tut tutting at the young and bemoaning how things are not like they were, how things don't taste the same etc., I am convinced that...

Yes maybe I'm a bit unfair if that was the impression I gave. In my son's case, he's far from lazy or entitled . . . but compared to me at his age he seems less ... concerned about the difficulty of it all.... when I was his age I couldn't see how I'd lead a comfortable life and that bothered...

Quite a journey. You have climbed the hill once so you can do it again. I'm nearly 60 and have been the architect of several of my own disasters, but all you can do is try to bounce back. And the only ******* who can do it for us is ourself. And if we put our mind to it....think laterally....All...

I'm really sorry to hear that. But the solution, as the Luddites found, is not to smash the new machines. Also, without wishing to be nosey, you sound like you upskilled quite late (after 2008?). Were you not busy and proactive in your late teens and early 20s, preparing yourself for the future...

I think as others (too few) have said, everthing is the same now as it ever was. My dad bought his first house in 1953. He had to grovel for a mortgage and he lived from month to month till he retired in 1985. I was 31 when I bought my first house, and I still live in it. My son is 31 now. He...