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No idea... I was hoping someone could give me their secret!

The commute... it seems to symbolise my life. It doesn't matter where I've been, or what I've done, I've always had to commute. 

I now commute by car around an hour, twice daily, sometimes 2 if traffic is bad, and I find it a most stressful experience.

Previously, I commuted by train which also was a mixed bag of adventures. 

But what drives my decision making on transport is more or less a price & time combination.

The cheapest form of transport, would be Bike. But there's no way I can cycle that distance, so it's out!

Second cheapest would be bus, but it would mean changing about 70 times, and would take half a week to get to work, so, that's out too.

The next contenders would be Train / Car, and this is where my head fries.

Each week, I spend around £60 is diesel, and I've long stopped paying for parking. My office is about 100m from a train station, my home, equally, 300m from a train station - so why don't I take the train? Simply, it comes to price alone.

This morning (Fri 5 Dec 14) I heard on the radio about the train fair increase being the lowest for sometime, matching inflation... 

That's awesome... but, it would still cost me £93 a week to get to work by train.

I don't have a particularly economical car. It's an average car, there are more economical vehicles out there, but clearly, for a saving of £33 a week, £1716 a year, the car is a no brainer.

How logical it would be for the rail operators, to calculate the differing costs of travel, and ensure trains are the most cost effective option on all routes. It would increase passengers, which I think would increase revenue in fairs, and incidental purchases from on train resources as well as station side resources, and would lower the traffic on the roads. Surely, this is a good thing! 

But, in my case, they have priced themselves out of the market.

The Solution? Buy an annual ticket for only £3800. Or perhaps go monthly on the ticket. Both still work out more expensive that the fuel used in the car & maintenance etc. And even if it did work out cheaper, who wants to blow a few grand on a ticket?

Well, that's what we do for one member of staff so he can get to work (£1560 p/a on rail travel)

Next contender is flying... now if only they could make that cheaper...! 

True, I think the content value can reflect in google. And you can be just one post away from virility.

Originally Posted by Shakey Fan

“depends what they are talking about. start athread about how to get the best benefit and youll have plenty of posts 

 

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True...
Quality over Content! 

Totally agree Steve.

As far as I see it, business isn't about risks, it's about calculated risks, and the two are different.

A business without any risk, isn't a business at all. It wouldn't even get off the starting blocks.

It is so important to believe in yourself, and your vision, and develop that into something that works. If it does fail, you must learn from the experience, and move on.

I know of a husband and wife who had a holistic style shop - it was awesome. 

Sadly, they lost it early in the economic downturn, and have been unemployed ever since. Simply, there is no need. 

I have had loads of ideas that haven't worked, even a couple of businesses which were really (in hindsight) a bad idea. My first business was at the age of 15, and I'm not in that business anymore! 

But later businesses, such as the ones I own now are far more successful, and enjoyable.

If I didn't go through the learning curve, and proving fire, there is no way I could do what I do now, with the success we now have.

We, as business people, as well as those starting out in business need to be under no illusion of the amount of work and commitment required to make a business function to its full potential.

You slack off, and it will float for a while, and sink eventually. I wonder if people not taking calculated risks is because of a fear of commitment, or leaving a comfort zone?

Yes, I have it on this laptop... and it's much better, really... but still...

My first computer had 4Mb of RAM... and a 486, DXII 66 processor. I saved up about £120 for another 4Mb and was landed... Life was good.

Now I have 8000Mb of RAM, and life may be more graphically aesthetically pleasing, but, I have to put "When it loads" at the end of every sentence.

"Yeah, great when it loads" 

"Yup, Ill call you back when it loads"

"Sure, Ill do it when it loads"

Considering going back to Win 3.11 and a dial up modem. Life was simpler.

Actually, you do have a good point.

Pizza's, Plumbers, Undertakers etc.... It just seems right to find them in there.

If you're considering First Aid through them though... lol, I'd give it a miss! Oh, hang on, you'd be competition... Yeah, they are great. Get the biggest advert you can through them! :-D Lol

They print and distribute because they make a tonne from convincing people to pay to advertise in there.

Urgh... Yell are the bain of my life, that's for sure

Anyways, anyone want to give me £800 for sticking a sign with their name up in my window?

I think Britain Borrowed, then borrowed against the initial borrowing to service the original loan.

I'd be interested to know who we're repaying also...

and more so, what would happen if we defaulted... surely there's a loophole out of the contract? :-D

Funny enough, today I just downgraded a colleagues laptop from 8.1 to 7 so he could do some work. 

Thinking about making the same move on my own laptop... 8Gb of RAM clearly isn't enough to run a computer these days...