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It's ok to be judged within reason..

But riced up car no thanks

If I was still in sales, I'd rather no judgement from them until I had sussed them out and then I could talk about my other car etc. if I saw that they might be into that.

But yeah riced up cars do you no favours unless you work in that industry or for Autobarn.

Saw a real estate agent rock up in a riced-up rx8 :/

Lol when we had our Track Day tech night the other month the pizza delivery dude rocks up in an RX8 with 40 pizzas... Saw it was a car type event, gave it a rev coming up the driveway... we lold in pity

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guy who delivered our pizzas for the last tech night was in a very riced very thrashed RX8

He thought he was so cool hitting the limiter when leaving..

(he did deliver 30 pizzas so if it was 5$ a pizza he would have been in a good mood anyhow)

Yeah so it could be 2 could be 10 pizzas, typically you get to know the 'good tipping addresses' and race there as fast as you can so you get a good tip.

I remember this one guy, used to always pay with $50 and say 'keep the change' for like 1 pizza and a drink, baller probably in dezz's line of work

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While you were all at uni for a piece of paper, I was busy making paper.

i'm guessing you were an apprentice when other at uni, and from what I knew of tried apprenticeships straight out of school sucked massively.

best mate was a motor mechanic, 5200 a year first year.

another mate was an apprentice elect , around the samepay till hit 18, improved a bit,

but at 20 finished apprenticeship moved to perth and was on 120K doing work at the mines.

FIFO plus Union, PLUS explosives danger money...

(he was doing the electrical systems for the explosives carts in the mines)

where as his wife did uni, got degree, now a lawyer earning shit loads more than him...

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I finished school in 2003, didn't start my apprenticeship til 8 years later.

I'm not saying no one should go to uni or whatever, but most of the people that use the example you used above, forget to factor in the money they weren't making for the ~4 years they were at uni, so unless they're on mega bucks when they do get out, they won't be catching up/overtaking those who worked from the get go anytime soon.

Of course money isn't everything for some people, so it's not much of an argument, but for materialistic mother f**kers like me, it's pretty much everything

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i'm guessing you were an apprentice when other at uni, and from what I knew of tried apprenticeships straight out of school sucked massively.

best mate was a motor mechanic, 5200 a year first year.

another mate was an apprentice elect , around the samepay till hit 18, improved a bit,

but at 20 finished apprenticeship moved to perth and was on 120K doing work at the mines.

FIFO plus Union, PLUS explosives danger money...

(he was doing the electrical systems for the explosives carts in the mines)

where as his wife did uni, got degree, now a lawyer earning shit loads more than him...

But most people don't do law degrees and most lawyers don't even end up making truck loads

I cracked well over 6 figures at 21 never looked back

I finished school in 2003, didn't start my apprenticeship til 8 years later.

I'm not saying no one should go to uni or whatever, but most of the people that use the example you used above, forget to factor in the money they weren't making for the ~4 years they were at uni, so unless they're on mega bucks when they do get out, they won't be catching up/overtaking those who worked from the get go anytime soon.

Of course money isn't everything for some people, so it's not much of an argument, but for materialistic mother f**kers like me, it's pretty much everything

when I tried uni most were on ausstudy earning 200+ per week...so they were surviving fine for that 4 years.

Uni wasn't for me however, was sick of school no idea on what I wanted to be doing in 6 months even less for rest of my life, so got out and tried some stuff.

took this job thinking it would be fun for 12 months or so and now worked here for just under 15 years.

But most people don't do law degrees and most lawyers don't even end up making truck loads

I cracked well over 6 figures at 21 never looked back

very true but not every Tradie does as well,

all comes down to drive and how much your willing to learn.

Still got plenty of friend from high school who did their apprenticeship, stayed in the country and happy to work from some-one.

so long as they can pay off their 150K (or less) home loan and afford a woodstock or UDL on friday they happy.

for every-one doing good there some just getting by and happy with their lot.

when I tried uni most were on ausstudy earning 200+ per week...so they were surviving fine for that 4 years.

Uni wasn't for me however, was sick of school no idea on what I wanted to be doing in 6 months even less for rest of my life, so got out and tried some stuff.

took this job thinking it would be fun for 12 months or so and now worked here for just under 15 years.

Big difference between survivng and doing well. $200 a week, $10k a year... I spent that on the engine alone in the R33

Like I said, not everyone is all about the money, that's fine. It's only funny when people with degrees/diplomas etc look down on tradies etc

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