That’s my wish to Ketts. I am not a sentimentalist, I am, I am told, considerate and supportive but brutally honest.
I recall a co worker having a large win on a lottery and congratulating them and meaning it, then being asked by another colleague ‘do you really mean that’, as there were a number who were jealous and envious of the lucky and now wealthy person, which brought out a unhealthy side to their character. I love seeing others succeed and always encourage others to succeed.
I have never sought promotion but always strived to achieve and through that I have been promoted in nearly all industries I have worked, other than my longest career, albeit actually provided me with a good grounding, I saw things most would not want to see, and in all honestly it failed to live up to that childhood dream. For a lad and lass who left school without a qualification, and with barely any education, (for which, on my part, I take total responsibility, as I just lived to be outside involved in sport) me and my life long love (my gorgeous better half of over 40 years) have done ok and have more than we would ever have dreamed of, and all worked for to.
I will be retiring this year a few years prior to my 66 years, and in a position that means I will have no worries (health aside as you never know what’s around the corner) Family are also secure now going forward because for the last eight years, my life time investment has come to fruition, careful I have been by some’s reckoning, (tight by others reckoning
) but it has paid off for me, particularly the last eight years.
And it all started off by running a small business and growing it over ten years and selling it at its prime when I reached my thirties.
I have a few people to thank, my gorgeous long suffering wife, for getting me to understand figures, a night school teacher who tirelessly helped this thick oaf understand how to write, spell and and have an understanding of punctuation. Also a few people that gave me a break here and there and because of all of that and my humble beginnings and humanity, I always wish anyone trying to achieve something or better themselves all the very best.
One thing I recall someone saying to me when I was around twenty and considering going it alone but was almost to frightened to make that break, ‘it is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all’.
I write all of the above, and I make no apologise if it contains a little vanity, (That is very much unlike me but I read some vanity on here) (like they say, brutally honest) to give those who think Big Dave or anyone else should not aim to to achieve to do their best, into perspective. Without these people to use as an example, where would we be.
So Big Dave, I hope you smash it.