Since I had the grace to tell everyone what I do for a living and even put it on my avatar, can you then tell us what you do? What sort of "high-level service worker" are you? You looking down on me because I am working for a F&A franchise instead of my family business means you don't know a damn thing about my industry. But you can't bothered to, can you? I work to build experience and credentials, which I can use to open my own franchise. Yesterday it was Malta, today the Philippines, tomorrow Tokyo, who knows.Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑May 19th, 2020, 8:39 amIt has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that you are a low-level, service industry worker. You aren't a damn thing in the eyes of anyone who actually works to generate his own wealth. You work to enrich the people who own that hotel so your labor is being purchased and exploited. Don't be so proud of that.
As we say in Italy, "nessuno nasce imparato", nobody is born with experience. Perhaps you think you know it all because you could do you job well without actually learning that much? Good for you if that was the case, but not everyone is lucky enough to get a comfy paper pushing job.
You have a very immature idea of "financial independence". Freedom, financial or not, is not about living a lonely and selfish life, only serving and pleasing yourself. It's about having people you love and you care for depend on you, not necessarily financially but also emotionally. If you have managed your time and money wisely, there will be plenty to enjoy, on your own or with said loved ones. If you express yourself like this you really sound like the worst kind of MGTOW who never did anything of value to anyone else than himself.Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑May 19th, 2020, 8:39 amWell, you and Shemp DO have a lot in common other than age. But at least he has some measure of financial independence to do what he wants. YOU DON'T!
In 30 years or so I will give myself some of the "financial independence" you are talking about. I am half your age and it's time to work, and work hard. And by the way I am having my sexy time now, without paying or giving away "allowances" to anyone. I really hope I won't have to look like a third world pimp like you when I get to my late 50s.
Yes, I am angry towards you. Actually, not even angry, I am just taking the pleasure of giving you a taste of your own medicine. If you really have good fortune, you wouldn't have a weekly post with a random video from YT and a black list of members you don't like, just to prove them how happy and successful you are.Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑May 19th, 2020, 8:39 amWho are you kidding? You are ANGRY, not happy. Happy people don't get all twisted into a knot because of others' good fortune. You're unbearably miserable and everyone knows it, even you.
If you really are happy in your shoes, you wouldn't have to resort to bashing people anonymously on an unmoderated forum. What this shows is that you get your kicks out of it. It makes you feel better. Perhaps it's important to your well being, but certainly not to ours
Again, total, embarrassing ignorance. As one of the 2 sous chefs, I help my Exec manage a kitchen of 36 people (in shifts), I manage the menu, the stockroom and the supplier process, the display, the promos, everything. Since I arrived here I spent more time training people and designing the food prep than actually cooking for patrons.Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑May 19th, 2020, 8:39 amCareer? If slaving away in a hotel kitchen is a career, I feel sorry for you. I'd say you have a mere job, albeit one with a modicum of skill required.
Tell me what your job was, in fact, tell me what you do now, apart from hacking away on a forum and save your pension for the next batch of sugar babies.
Tell me what difference there is between you and me, apart from you being 25 years older than me, out of shape, and full of s*it
Covid-19 isn't that much of a problem over here. We have all been quarantined, which means some of the girls who normally only come here to work have been staying here for several weeks. More opportunity for sex, in my book, not less. Do you think your Ukrainian college students, those you are (allegedly) wooing with the mighty dollar, are much better? Based on what exactly?Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑May 19th, 2020, 8:39 amAnd if you were fu**ing as you say, you would not be so wound up all the damn time. Moreover, if you are fu**ing as you say, you are a prime candidate to contract Covid-19. Not the best thing to be doing now if you are having contact with peoples' food and other people who prepare that food! Long and short of it, it is clear that you are not. And even if you were, Filipinas are a huge shoulder shrug compared to what many of us require in women.
The path of freedom after being a slave for 30+ years? Sure, one can only learn from that...Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑May 19th, 2020, 8:39 amWell I am glad you think my lifestyle is superior. I tend to merely think of it as the path I chose and implemented for myself.
LOL what if I told you you are one of those "5 or 6 psychopathic and mentally disordered members"? If lurkers have the time to go through our posts, they would understand that in a breeze. I wouldn't call pimping girls in Ukraine with your meager pension a success, at least not in my book.Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑May 19th, 2020, 8:39 amThis is HA after all and healthier people than you do like to read about others' exploits and successes. Just because the lifestyle I lead is unattainable for you, there is no need to be such a crybaby about it.
And there are literally thousands members and lurkers on this forum. If I like to put the 5 or 6 psychopathic and mentally disordered members like yourself in their place from time to time, that just means they absolutely need it. Stuffing you back into place is not only for sport, it is justified to remind you that you and your "kitchen help" views don't matter.
If you couldn't make it in Italy, couldn't make it in Malta, couldn't make it is the UK, and you're not making in in the Philippines, than a pattern is established. You can hop from country to country, but perhaps it means you are simply not cut out to make anywhere.
Now hurry up and get those damn potatoes peeled, and don't make a mess while doing it!
If someone as classy and worldly as you can't even understand that it is normal for a food professional to travel around to gain international experience, you are just showing your ignorance. If you really have such an unattainable lifestyle and had dined a few times at top restaurants and looked at the staff, you would understand it.