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<blockquote data-quote="Cowcorn" data-source="post: 5607030" data-attributes="member: 107020"><p>Sure i could have gone to uni i just didnt want to so instead i spent a year in england working for my fathers cousin who was and still is very big in construction .</p><p>Laying pipe and cable for BT and paid by the metre gave huge wages 800 quid some weeks.One of the best years of my life but i still wanted to farm so my father ordered me home.</p><p>Now the man my father employed was paid the proper Ag Board wage at the end of the first week even though i worked more hours i was handed 40 quid told there was plenty of diesel in the jeep and i could get fags on his slate at the local. I drank plenty on his slate too!!</p><p>The college goers were always studying and socialising no grading spuds half the night for them.After 5 oddyears of this both me and my other brother were given more responsibility including names on the cheque book as the old fella reckoned we had paid our dues.</p><p>He never made any bones about his intentions frequently complaining to my mother about his more spendthrift offspring and saying he didnt kill himself working to pay for land so it could be sold to go on furrin holidays</p><p>The celtic tiger era just before he died was a sore point as every Sunday he would have to listen to bulls**t about site values and selling road frontage. This to a man who wouldnt give a square inch of land for a site to his daughters as it would ruin a field. He gave them deposit for a house in the city instead. Maybe im turning into him and should lighten up!!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowcorn, post: 5607030, member: 107020"] Sure i could have gone to uni i just didnt want to so instead i spent a year in england working for my fathers cousin who was and still is very big in construction . Laying pipe and cable for BT and paid by the metre gave huge wages 800 quid some weeks.One of the best years of my life but i still wanted to farm so my father ordered me home. Now the man my father employed was paid the proper Ag Board wage at the end of the first week even though i worked more hours i was handed 40 quid told there was plenty of diesel in the jeep and i could get fags on his slate at the local. I drank plenty on his slate too!! The college goers were always studying and socialising no grading spuds half the night for them.After 5 oddyears of this both me and my other brother were given more responsibility including names on the cheque book as the old fella reckoned we had paid our dues. He never made any bones about his intentions frequently complaining to my mother about his more spendthrift offspring and saying he didnt kill himself working to pay for land so it could be sold to go on furrin holidays The celtic tiger era just before he died was a sore point as every Sunday he would have to listen to bulls**t about site values and selling road frontage. This to a man who wouldnt give a square inch of land for a site to his daughters as it would ruin a field. He gave them deposit for a house in the city instead. Maybe im turning into him and should lighten up!!!!! [/QUOTE]
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