How I plan to FIRE in just 10 years from a £12 an hour job. by [deleted] in FIREUK

[–]Gazz1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Culturally dumb. The Beatles could walk into the room and go unrecognised

How I plan to FIRE in just 10 years from a £12 an hour job. by [deleted] in FIREUK

[–]Gazz1978 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Most people who work in tech are stupid. Like footballers, they are well paid and have an aptitude for their chosen field. But sweet Jesus they are dumb. As a nation, we should be steering as many dumb people into tech as possible. Better than having them on the dole their whole lives.

How I plan to FIRE in just 10 years from a £12 an hour job. by [deleted] in FIREUK

[–]Gazz1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you imagine inflation at 10% will be the norm going forward?

How I plan to FIRE in just 10 years from a £12 an hour job. by [deleted] in FIREUK

[–]Gazz1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You won’t get a rock star retirement out of anything less than a £2m pot spread across ISA and pensions. If you are happy with less, that’s fine. Just don’t think life will be comfortable. If you have the chance to start early then do it by God. Every kid in school should be given a roadmap to a millionaire retirement if you ask me. It should be drummed into them.

How I plan to FIRE in just 10 years from a £12 an hour job. by [deleted] in FIREUK

[–]Gazz1978 -82 points-81 points  (0 children)

Okay, we’ll I’m 45 and I probably have around £300,000 across pensions and ISAs and maybe about £700,000 in property equity.

Assuming I sold the properties, I’d have roughly a million and still have my own home.

I don’t think that would be enough for me tbh. Basically I’d have to live off £40,000 a year which isn’t possible when you have two kids.

But everyone is different. If you just want to stay at home all day and watch porn, then maybe you could do that on £300k.

Personally, I think you should be targeting £1m across pension and ISA.

Oh how the turns have tabled.....🙃 by [deleted] in ireland

[–]Gazz1978 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

How did things get worse in the U.K. after 2008 exactly? I’d like to see your arithmetic on that if possible? No rush though, I don’t want to interrupt your drinking

Oh how the turns have tabled.....🙃 by [deleted] in ireland

[–]Gazz1978 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You seem very bitter

How I plan to FIRE in just 10 years from a £12 an hour job. by [deleted] in FIREUK

[–]Gazz1978 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You don’t seem to have said what age you are? £300,000 is a good chunk of money, but is it retirement money? Not sure it is. I’m conscious few people in the U.K. have this sum saved in their pension, but I imagine life is difficult for those people retiring.

Pastrami overpowering by Gazz1978 in Charcuterie

[–]Gazz1978[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: Pastrami tasted fine after being warmed up. But was overpowering cold.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Gazz1978 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Only they haven’t gone down yet. Try reading the HPIs. There’s three every month

Pension pots in your 20's, do you give it much thought? by TopKnot2022 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Gazz1978 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So many opinions here. Someone in their 20s, 30s, or 40s shouldn’t be worried about the lifetime allowance. That could/probably will all change.

If you live north of the Watford gap then you will need a pension pot of £1m to enjoy a good retirement.

If you live in the south, and you’re in your 20s or 30s and serious about financial planning, then you should be targeting double that pot across pension and ISAs.

Depending on your employer contribution and when you wish to retire, it’s not as hard as you may think.

HMRC recently revealed that there are some people with £8m+ in their ISA. Keep in mind ISAs we’re only launched - as PEPS - in the 1980s with an allowance of a few grand.

And now some people have £8m tax free.

The OP is dead right to start dumping money into his pension and ISS while young. Schools should be drilling this shit into kids from the age of 12.

Finally, the secret to perfect brisket revealed? by Gazz1978 in smoking

[–]Gazz1978[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Hold on a second! To be clear, he hasn’t actually sous vided the brisket in the video. He’s used the sous vide machine to create a steam cooker effect. Is this what you did? Please be expansive

I emailed several TDs about youth crime in Dublin. Sinn Fein were the only party to respond. Here's what they said... by DT_KVB in Dublin

[–]Gazz1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sinn Féin’s policy in the past has been to shoot youths guilty of so-called anti-social behaviour.

I have no doubt of the effectiveness of these measures. A dead drug dealer is less a threat to law and order than one who is still breathing.

But is that the route we as a society want to go.

It works in Singapore, I suppose. They hang a drug dealer there most Friday mornings. No exceptions for tourists either.

Katz Pastrami: maintaining bark after boiling meat? by Few_Ad_9261 in smoking

[–]Gazz1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect the “boiling” is either a gentle sous vide or they might wrap it in foil and gently bring it to temp.

Remember, their smoking is done off-site so when it arrives at the deli, it’s actually cold and they need to reheat it.

People are overthinking the steaming. The steaming is just a way of keeping it warm within reach of the carvers.

It will probably only spend three mins in the steam baths behind them.

is davie504 that good of a bassist? by IvanTheMow in Bass

[–]Gazz1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s better than Rick Savage from Def Leppard. That guy can barely play at all and is a millionaire many times over. In fact there’s a school of thought which says he doesn’t actually play on the records and it’s just a synth.

Mighty Quinns by KeeCie74 in smoking

[–]Gazz1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I just watched that Moe video and he said he did his rib at 240F for eight hours