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Not really. Finally have a job that pays fairly decent money, just bought a house and I own a couple of cars (granted, one is off the road and the other is a £500 barge!) live for your social life and the occasions where you can go for a few drinks, food with your mates. I'm happy enough. Can keep your portfolios and your 10 pages threads about how you won at life!
This basically.
As long as i can live comfortably, afford to have a few holidays a year and see plenty of my mates, I'm happy. Dont want for much in life, the best times you'll ever have are with your family and friends, not with some car or anything else material.
One of my mates just took a step down career wise for a better social/home life. Used to be on just over £30k, but it was a lot of shift work which included having to do a week of nights a month. His new job (in the same place of work) is about £26k a year, does 3 12hr shifts a week (mon, tues, weds) and the rest is his time. Hes much happier now.
He doesn't work in Glenrothes does he?  Because thats basically me. Work 3x 12 hours for the same sort of wage and it suits me perfectly. I get bored and think about moving on but having those days at home to see my wee girl is priceless, especially at the age she is when babbling and learning to walk.
Maybe in a few years I'll look to better myself career wise, but atm I'm happy 
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andy1868
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money isn't everything, i think i'm starting to get that. This is a nice little quote
At the same time, there is nothing wrong with being ambitious, the world wouldn't be the place it is today with people that were content in their surroundings!
[Edited on 17-02-2014 by andy1868]
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--DAN--
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I used to be stupidly ambitious and climbed the ladder at my company from packer on a production line to General Manager with a workforce of 1400 and weekly turnover of £6m a week within 10 years.
On the way up I was completely motivated by money and due to my wife also having a busy career I was able to commit 90hrs a week to the job and I was happy to do that. Now though I've got 2 kids under 2 and my priorities have completely changed. I want to spend much more time at home but the two don't mix so I'll be looking to drop down a step or two at some point soon to get a much better work life balance.
[Edited on 17-02-2014 by --DAN--]
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kz
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My boss actually applied for a job that would have put him on level pegging with me, just because he hates bullshit meetings and paperwork so much.
I don't mind paperwork but definitely couldn't do meetings all day... such a waste of time and mind numbingly boring. Had one just before Christmas which was 2 hours long and only 10 minutes involved me. If it wasn't for the free tea and biscuits I would have had a nap.
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Carl
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Ash can't you live somewhere else Monday to Friday nearer the job and just see her weekends? if you are that knackered on nights I doubt its quality time?!
Im not ambitious and im pretty content. I work 4-5 mile away from where i live and I'm enjoying my job and find it fulfilling. I dont like to put myself in a position where id become a slave to a wage which does annoy my other half. I dont get point in putting financial pressure on ourselves just to have more rooms to clean etc.
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John
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Just leave the doors shut in the other rooms and then they don't need cleaned 
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A2H GO
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Originally posted by Carl
Ash can't you live somewhere else Monday to Friday nearer the job and just see her weekends? if you are that knackered on nights I doubt its quality time?!
Im not ambitious and im pretty content. I work 4-5 mile away from where i live and I'm enjoying my job and find it fulfilling. I dont like to put myself in a position where id become a slave to a wage which does annoy my other half. I dont get point in putting financial pressure on ourselves just to have more rooms to clean etc.
It's not that bad really, was hard at first but after a couple of years you get used to it. It's not as uncommon as you might think, train platforms and motorways are full everyday with people doing the same thing. I know at least 4 of my close friends who travel 3-4 hours everyday for work in London, Manchester, Edinburgh etc. Are you truly ambitious if you're not willing to sacrifice anything or do whatever it takes to achieve your goals?
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pow
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2.5 hours each way fuck that.
I am ambitious, not many people would be Network Managing a 4 form entry school at 24, but I never want to become a slave to work really... I want to be in control even if I am doing extra hours etc.
[Edited on 18-02-2014 by pow]
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Kyle T
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I'm pretty ambitious, work:life balance is a little on the work side ATM but it comes and goes with projects etc. I quite enjoy it.
Keep saying I'll be happy once we are out of this house and into something bigger/double garage/etc.
Unfortunately, I'll just want something else to work towards once that is done
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Daimo B
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Younger me, yes.
Older me, hell no
Got everything I need, the rest is material toys. The only thing I'd like is more money and less work, to see the world a lot more. Roll on mega early retirement
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All Torque
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I like to think I am. I certainly was when I worked part-time in the evenings while going to college/apprenticeship in the day, I was seriously cashed when I was early 20s and had no social life as a result. Now I've been at my current job (unloading lorries at Tesco) for 7 years and tomorrow I'm going to find out if I have a new job working for Mervin Lambert traffic management. The reasons for leaving my current job are the fact there's no way of progressing on my department despite knowing it inside out and also there's no over-time at the moment as believe it or not the company is broke 
I now want to start a family with my wife, I need to bust my hump again now to save up to have a kid as when she hits maternity leave she'll have a £900 paycut 
So yeah, I'm ambitious... Just got to remember to stop once in a while to enjoy what you've worked for.
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James
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I used to be ambitious until I went contracting and realised you do less hours, deal with less bullshit and have less responsibility for twice the money.
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VrsTurbo
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Originally posted by James
I used to be ambitious until I went contracting and realised you do less hours, deal with less bullshit and have less responsibility for twice the money.
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pow
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James. At least you're honest
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A2H GO
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Originally posted by James
I used to be ambitious until I went contracting and realised you do less hours, deal with less bullshit and have less responsibility for twice the money.
I can't wait to go contracting when I have the experience. Most of my mates do it, one of them gets £500 a day as a business analyst and he has no business analyst experience whatsoever. Mainly the reason I wanted to get out of banking as the industry's made up of 99% bullshitters with made up CVs and it so frustrating when trying to get anything done and nobody's got a clue what they're doing.
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mwg
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I guess I'm not really ambitious. Started out at a small company in the same town I still work in now. Then moved to a bigger company doing the same thing. Now I've plateaued. Some days think I should leave but really on the whole I quite like working here, get on with most people, I get paid ok and without moving out of the area there's no where else I could go to work at without having a career change.
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willay
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Ups and downs really, I'd say most of the time I am not ambitious.
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Carl
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Originally posted by All Torque
I like to think I am. I certainly was when I worked part-time in the evenings while going to college/apprenticeship in the day, I was seriously cashed when I was early 20s and had no social life as a result. Now I've been at my current job (unloading lorries at Tesco) for 7 years and tomorrow I'm going to find out if I have a new job working for Mervin Lambert traffic management. The reasons for leaving my current job are the fact there's no way of progressing on my department despite knowing it inside out and also there's no over-time at the moment as believe it or not the company is broke
I now want to start a family with my wife, I need to bust my hump again now to save up to have a kid as when she hits maternity leave she'll have a £900 paycut
So yeah, I'm ambitious... Just got to remember to stop once in a while to enjoy what you've worked for.
You've spent 7 years emptying lorries, that's not ambition, that's the total opposite in my eyes.
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Conway563
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I have ambitions, can't think of any that are directly work related though more that I'll need to do reasonably well in a career to achieve a lot of them
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12vStig
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I'd love to think I am but the sad truth is that I'm not.
After coasting through school and uni and falling into the sort of work I'm doing now it's fair to say I'm not ambitious.
I've had 3 jobs in 12 months due to always wanting more money, but in terms of actually pushing myself I've never done it.
I actually want out of my current role, but that's more down to the fact that it is a horrible horrible place rather than any ambition on my part.
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Matt L
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I have started to get more amitious now which is annoying as I have spent the past few years just plodding along and not really putting any effort in to my exams which has held me back atleats 4 years now which is annoying as I could be fully qualified by now.
But now I have started to realise I need to put the effort in to get what/where I want.
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