Sailing is for posh people

Originally posted by iitick

Originally posted by iitick

Hang on! You just made my point. You and your parents had the degree of affluence which enabled you to make a choice that was convenient to you. Are you implying that Mr B & Q could finance his child's sailing in that way if he gave up beer and fags?
So many of the affluent middle classes have no idea of the financial gulf that exists between themselves and 'ordinary' workers.

I am sure that Mr B & Q could follow the circuit but with a tent and 02 Astra, lots of adult sailors do but please do not tell me that the Motorhome coralle at Graffham was not somewhere in the region of 'posh'.

Yes, he probably could, if the desire was there- and some smaller motorhomes are more economical and not that impractical to run as a family car.  I know plenty of windsurfers who run converted T-5s as cars as well as sports wagons.... they'd laugh if you called them posh, but they do tend to work for themselves in one form or another, and I can only assume that means they are sufficiently efficient at whatever it is they do to make ends meet.  

So B&Q bod, he or she could also take on more shifts, or get promoted, or aspire through searching for other jobs.  He or she could take on two jobs ... or do all the other things that people with aspirations to earn more do, which may include moving away to accept work which pay overseas, or living away from home M-F, retraining and re-skilling into a future resilient work area; or taking some bloody ugly risks by being truly responsible for their own income and setting up their own businesses.

None of that is as easy as rolling into the same stable, safe boring job for 40 years admittedly- with all its comforts, protections, unions, minimum wages and sick pay.  And you'd have to ask why anyone in retailing, at shop level (floor or managers office) would do all of that for a part of the sport which is run at weekends, and busy retailing weekends at that. 

Edited by yellowwelly - 18 Nov 13 at 12:07pm