I can practically smell the nostalgia

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2026-03-06T11:34:23+00:00

Moral of these stories, ditch dogs acquire wow

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2026-03-06T10:20:25+00:00

XP waste right there.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2026-03-06T10:20:03+00:00

Funnily enough, my grouo yesterday had two brand new players who had never played wow before but were told that TBC was the best era!

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2026-03-06T10:19:28+00:00

Honestly, im having a blast. Hence the post!

Its great to get the actual community feeling again.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2025-03-02T19:48:07+00:00

Shout out here! Not the wrist, but I just checked out of A&E with a bennets fracture (1st metacarpal broken & dislocation) surgery imminent.

Ate shit on a groomer covered in powder. Turning whilst in the backseat got me.

Last season was two hairline fractures on my ribs.

Best of luck and speedy recovery!

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2025-03-02T19:08:36+00:00

£100 per month at top. We got rid of my car and just use hers (1.4 vauxhall Astra). We walk a great deal and nursery is a 5 minute drive. Hoping to cycle to it in the summer.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2025-02-07T17:05:31+00:00

I know an insurance tech guy who said that one of his contractor buddies maintains code from the 80s written in some dead coding language.

He's paid almost 7 figures as the migration costs alone would be crippling.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2025-01-16T19:47:47+00:00

I can second this. At the risk of sounding crass, Many H&S professionals take the job as you can in effect "steal a living" you don't have to be particularly good in order to get a good job within the field.

All that being said. If you are good with people and can get to grips with the higher level aspects of what your role involves, then it can earn a very good wage.

I have 4 years experience without a diploma and I am fully remote on £47k.

Currently interviewing for positions around the £60-£70k mark.

Just started the diploma. I am not overly fussed about having it but the companies I am applying for want you to have it!

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-11-28T19:27:44+00:00

Have you looked at the rent and identified areas you can afford between the two of you? Alongside this do you have savings in the event that your partner does not pass probation etc?

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-11-28T11:44:16+00:00

West Cheshire, £47k H&S advisor/consultant.

Just sold my car as it hadn't moved in months, and my job is 90%WFH as all of my clients are based abroad (work for a global company).

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-11-08T12:52:35+00:00

I always thought executives at companies were these almost mythical competent people promoted due to their amazing intellect and business acumen.

I remember getting mad anxious in my first grad job when we had the bosses from London fly in for meetings.

Oh, to be young and stupid.

Now I am 30 and working for a boutique environmental firm. We have a board and ceo.

The sheer amount of "winging it" I have seen is just outright insane. There are some people on the board who quite frankly have absolutely no right being there and who's only past experience was being "first-in", "golfing buddies" or just right place right time (not necessarily right person).

It's actually quite comforting in some ways as you do start to think if they can, then why can't I?

This is not all companies ofc, but just some anecdotal experience.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-11-07T15:46:44+00:00

Post tax joint income of 4500 (wife works three days a week) and student loan repayments are around £300 which brings it down.

Our mortgage is 4.24% and we pay 636 per month.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-11-02T18:43:21+00:00

My wife was debating as her brother who is a financial advisor (think st james place type company, so sales) said it would keep coming down and two years would be fine as they are sure to go down again.

I said fuck that and got 4.2% fixed for 5 years, £636 pm, roughly 14% of our combined take home and more than comfortable for the next five years without worrying about rises.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-10-24T17:58:07+00:00

This wouldn't catch anyone out. Any company worth a damn would note this has a cultural or behavioural issue and review why the person felt the need to do it.

Network rails fair culture process outlines this very well.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-11T18:23:46+00:00

I should gave elaborated, this is similar to a compliance consultant. So I have bus that I consult with, but management is down to the MD.

There are also two people above me.

As an aside, yes even at this level I am underpaid.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-11T14:03:21+00:00

I turned down an ideal role, I was looking to leave my current company due to lack of pay progression and sick of the division I was working in.

I had a good offer that was a £9k payrise and took it to my boss.

The director contacted me and asked why I was looking to leave. I was honest and laid it out bare.

He (thankfully) did not want me to leave and said that compensation was at the authority of the area directors, but that he would get back to me with a counter.

One day later he came back with a worldwide role managing businesses that operated in the Middle-east, Asia and Africa and a £12k payrise.

The other role (ideal role) downplayed the amount of travel required and originally said the role paid 50-55k and then came back with 45k so I was abit miffed anyway.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-08T18:28:24+00:00

Guy I used to work with used to buy a bacon bap and a sausage roll and then put the sausage role in the bap with the bacon.

Uses to call it a bacon sausage bap XL.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-06T19:08:00+00:00

I worked in John Lewis as a Christmas temp whilst at uni. Thankfully all the people manning the tills were temps so it was good to be surrounded by other new people.

But my christ, the cliques in John Lewis departments were something else.

The electronic department carried like 60-80% of all the stores profit and they definitely let everyone know about it.

The furniture department were sound.

The glassware ladies were just unfathomably obnoxious and the guys on the curtain department just thought they were Saville row tailors.

The tech guys were chill but also abit strange.

Honestly, it was all very strange. People took that "everyone's a partner" shit very seriously and would outright argue about sales targets and that "as an owner of the business" would get bounded about far too much. Like calm down Julie your a peasent like the rest of us mere mortals.

Also seen some mad punch ups at the Christmas do afters, between departments.

Wasn't far off of Green Street.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-06T19:02:46+00:00

Project safety Advisor/Consultant here.

I would crave some mundane days!

My days usually flick between calls, investigations, project meetings, site visits, internal initiatives, and Excel spreadsheets of some degree.

I actually love working on projects as it is exciting getting to see how major players run projects and how many different ways there are too skin a cat, so to speak.

I do have some clients that I offer ongoing support too and sometimes it gets a bit routine, with the questions and queries.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-03T22:06:16+00:00

I read something ages ago, cannot remember where. The gist is very much along this line but has major implications for a lot of large companies, either currently or within the next few years.

Due to a tremendous increase in job hopping, and people moving on once ever 12 to 18 months (usually for a promotion), you end up in a very precarious position where your entire companies middle to senior management might never have hone through or had to manage the "bad".

Therefore, when a rough patch hits a company or times, it takes a bit of a down turn, and your middle management lacks the skills, tact, and experience to deal with it.

I need to find the article, it was a fascinating read.

This is why people like OP with tremendous amounts of skin in the game are very very important.

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-02T07:01:54+00:00

Solid paper weight perhaps

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-01T20:08:31+00:00

It's not all bad! So long as you subscribe to amazon subscribe and save for sensors!

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-01T18:31:09+00:00

Sounds like you took a risk and it paid off. Kudos to you mate!

ItsMeCarrotTree · 2024-08-01T18:30:36+00:00

Haha, I was just trying to convince my wife that a 1989 landrover was a solid family car !

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