Well good evening blonde!
It seems that having been a year since my previous post, I am clearly denying blonde of some truly magnificent writing and fairly uninteresting life events. Therefore, I will try to provide some more regular updates into my world and hope that out there on this forum or beyond there are some people who take some kind of interest!
I shall break the updates into key parts, as I feel that this might read better and I will try to provide picture support where I can.
WorkWell, what a crazy year 2017 has been on the work front. This time 12 months ago I had just been authorised as a mortgage broker and began working under a company within an estate agents. We went to change networks around May, and went to a smaller company, still as an 'Appointed representative' with the aim to become Directly authorised further down the line. However, things turned fairly sour for myself and the new network made it clear that they were not keen to have me from the start, and when it came to compliance made things extremely difficult to progress cases. It all came to a head when I 'breached' a network rule and was asked to leave the company. Obviously people reading will think i have sour grapes and am making excuses, however, I have spoken to three people who run their own Financial services company since, who have told me that at worst it was a finger wag and certainly wasn't as bad as was made out to me.
So what next?
Myself and my best friend, who also works in the industry have decided to take the plunge and set up our own limited company, offering fee free mortgage and insurance advice. We have taken on everything as our baby, and come up with the name and website designs etc. Company logo and name are shown below, am really chuffed with it and how it has come out. The website and company itself has not quite gone 'live' yet as final checks and authorisation are pending however we hope to be up and running in the New Year. any guesses to where we will be based? However, we have clients all over the country, and can deal with anyone's mortgage, regardless where they are from in the country. What do people think of the logo?
Due to life insurance liabilities from my old company, I finally received my outstanding pay packet from my old boss last week, having not been paid since march! It has been a little bit of a struggle this year money wise, however long term, the best decisions have been made.
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PokerDue to the work situation, i have taken a slight sabbatical from the poker world. To be fair though I usually play less over the summer due to cricket and other things going on at weekends. However last couple of months I have started trying to play a little more and get back into the swing of things.
After finalllyyy getting some money through from my old boss, I decided to treat myself to the 888 Aspers main event last weekend. Only went and binked the thing! Much to mine, and Doobs delight, oh and maybe Pickens too!!
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I am still waiting for a trophy to come through, as Aspers did not have it at the time!! Will be up there for the Xmas cracker this weekend, anyone else about?? Really good comp usually and should smash the £50k guarantee.
Also managed to find 7th in the Sunday warm up on sunday for $5500 too which saved the day dramatically! Shame the $39500 for first would have been another nice addition to the bank account!
Not much else to report of major excitement. I split up with my previous girlfriend at the end of March. It just wasnt working for me for a number of reasons, and despite the fact she was a great girl, and I still have fond memories, we went our seperate ways.
In June I started seeing a new lass, called Emma. Things are still going well since then and looking forward to xmas together!
Am going away again with the family for xmas up to Grantham. Looking forward to a week away again with them. Possibly going to try get across to DTD on the 29th for the 1k in a day comp they have there. Anyone played one before? Good value?
Any requests for anything as a feature of previous blogs? Anything to inspire more readers!
Over and out,
Verndog
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p.s no, that is not my only hoodie
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