No. Not with what money your wisdom and professional acumen have left you with you are not.
They will look cool driving by you and cause you to feel more inferiority, paranoia and resentment.
If there is one thing about Chinese cars in Australia that I would bank on, it would be that.
LOL
I was always 'low level'..."anti-social" they said, "doesn't join us at the pub or on weekend staff social days".
"Does no more than he has to"...correct, took a while for me to realise that was my wisest policy.
Finish your work by "lunch time", they only give you 'half' of someone else's work to do, and you eventually get stuck with doing it permanently.
"Anti-social"? correct, they tried to rip me off at their daily after work pub visits, always *bullied* me into buying the first round of drinks, 10x $3 =$30. One lemon squash for me...my lemon squash cost me $30. lol
That racket didn't last long, I "kicked the lot of them to the kerb", politely of course, my list of excuses for non attendance was very long.
I never had any 'professional acumen'....and I spent the very least amount of time I could in the office.
Married men are better off being at home after work than stuck at the pub with work colleagues.
Better off spending their weekends with their spouses than at social days with co-workers.
People have crashed into the car we have now 3 times (all the other drivers' fault). Twice they ran into the back of it, and once into the side, young man in a new car...just drove straight out of a mall carpark into it.
The two rear-endings done by young drivers, one male, one female...on phones or playing with dials etc on their new car...seems to me.
Buy a new car? [even if I had the money...Corollas I would want to buy are $40,0000+]...no thank you...if I want to drive out of my non-big-city *town* I rent new cars.
7-12 airbags, all the latest safety and comfort features.
When there are two people in the team, one person doesn't [or shouldn't] get all the say as to how the team's income is spent.
We had fun...now in our 70s it's time to repay the money we spent.
The one who is left will have more than enough life insurance payout to cover any debt.
Mrs bambu went to Vegas, stayed a few nights, saw the bright lights, gambled at a casino, slot machines...lost money...$5.
Not inclined to throw money away is she.
Retire at 65?
If you then spend $30,000pa, after 10 years you have spent $300,000 after tax cash dollars.