From: Richard Faulkner 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: House Buying Tips?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:49:35 +0000

In message , Ronald 
Raygun  writes
>Richard Faulkner wrote:
>
>> I'm an estate agent, and have been for 17 years:
>
>Your missives generally exude the wisdom that comes with maturity,
>and in any case you've mentioned retirement a number of times in
>terms which suggests it's not too far off.  Accordingly, it seems
>highly likely that there was a substantial gap between when you
>left school (or university or whatever) and when those 17 years
>began.
>
>Idle curiosity prompts me to wonder what you were before you
>became an estate agent.
>
>Nothing too disreputable, I hope.
>



I'm 43, and became an estate agent at 27, (so I cant add up ).

On leaving school at 17, I was in the Merchant Navy and reached the 
dizzy heights of 3rd officer before leaving at 24, having acquired a 
BSc. over those years.. I then became an "Account Executive", 
(Salesman), for a shipping line before opening the agency from scratch 
in 1987.

I'm really talking about semi-retirement, with the freedom work on what 
takes my fancy, rather than feeling forced.


-- 
Richard Faulkner