Im 37 and everyone left school, got jobs and started to try and make their own way in life.

 

I had 5 close friends at school and now I am officially the only one who works!. The last one who was kind of working doing car boot sales decided he could not be arsed with the early cold mornings anymore. He called me in the office today to tell me that he had some good news!. It turned out that he has managed to get a load of prescribed drugs he can sell on a regular basis from his doctor as well as a sick note so the dole cant make him look for work. He said with a bit more fakery he should be able to get more benefits as well and laughed... WTF :thumbdown:.

 

The other 4 gave up and retired a few years back once they could get housing benefit etc. I am just gobsmacked at the lazy feckers it makes me sick really. All the working among us have to pay on average another £4K each per year in tax so bums like my mates can do feck all day after day month after month. Loads of jobs down here as well but dole is a chosen lifestyle choice.

 

Do you see more people you know doing this the older you get? I know they are my mates but this sickens me. Go back 100 years and they would all have worked. In a few years time no fecker will work as it is so socially acceptable these days to be a career claimant.

All my mates still work but alas I am only 26. I bet a fair few people from my year are not working though, but obviously this is the reason why I never became mates with them in the first place.

All mine used to but I cant see any of them ever working again!

Most of them work, one lost his job a short while ago and nothing on the horizon yet despite his efforts

I'm about to turn 28 and the missus is 35, both of us work full time, we hold managerial positions and are coming up for directorship soon, we work very very hard to earn our money. My best mate owns his own restaurant, bought it when he was 22, after starting there as a pot washer when he was 14 lol. Roses best mate has worked in factories doing picking and packing etc but hasn't worked now for years, lives in a council flat, has both an XBox 360 and a PS3, big screen TV, broadband internet, is quite happy with his situation, except when he's moaning he can't go out and do things of course, because he doesn't have any money.

 

Aside from the examples above, I know plenty of people that just don't work, either they did but don't now, or never did in the first place, it really does sicken me, because I've worked all my life and am still fighting to make sure we have a good retirement, while other people are sucking up my taxes.

I'm 40 and, whilst one or two school friends lost their jobs in the recession, they are back in work now.

 

However I'm only in touch with a couple of friends from school nowadays.

 

And since I went to secondary school in East London, I reckon a lot of guys I once knew are either in prison or have been shot - LOL!!!

 

Still I do know of one fella from my time at Sir George Monoux in Walthamstow, back in 1985, who didn't do too badly. Apparently he was into his music, I seem to remember his name was Tony Mortimer........:biggrin:

 

Richard:euro:

STILL! some of mine never started! lazy :xxx: 's

half of my old school mates dont need to work anymore...there dead !!!!

at 24 quite refreshingly all of my freinds bar one work, my gfs friends lol well they seem to be finding a little more difficult. most are new qualified tradesmen or just finishing there apprenticeships. and teh unemployed one has only been taht way for a few weeks doesnt need the money atm and was fed up with working tescos when hes a degree student. i have explaine dto him its only a music degree :P on adverage tho were all on rubbish money, and the highest earner in the group has about 2 gcses. what does taht say for the education system

Had this conversation the other week with a friend who just isn't bothered about working, his argument was that he's paid into the system when he was younger and doesn't feel guilty now cos of the amount of people coming to the UK who get benefits/housing/child allowance etc.

yeah right, everyone else is paying for the immigrants, so they can pay for me too, that's a healthy attitude, NOT! lol I think I'd have slapped him.

Don't think anything I'd have said would make him see otherwise. His point was this country is happy to pay for anyone so why not him. Morally it's wrong but there's a lack of morals these days anyway :(

All my old school friends work including myself. Just one fella doesn't and he had a really bad car accident and is on disability benefit!, spends most his time on his back on serious painkillers!