Prince Charles

[flip_flop]

"I only like bits of my job"

If being born a multi-millionaire and living a life of unparalled luxury is a "job", would somebody please point me in the direction of where I can apply and what qualifications I would need please?

[weeal]

...he maybe a millionaire with a life of luxy but there are obviously still 'bits' he doesnt like. I wouldnt swap him for anything.

[jake-the-peg]

Bit of a faustian bargain.

Money and privillege but in return you can never go out and relax in public.

If you mess up and say something dumb (and boy doesn't he?) it's not just your mates that laugh at you but the whole country.

And you have no real career choice - you are born to a job, and you have to do it for life.

Maybe I'd swap places but then I've not spent the last however many years within it's constraints.

Still I'm sure we could get by without him or his familly if it's getting too much to bear.

A few airports might have to squeeze by without an official opening and the speaker of the house would have to read the speech at the opening of pariament - It'd be tough but I think we'd cope!

[saxy_jag]

I earn in a month what he'd probably spend on a quiet dinner out and he probably spends more an air freshener for the dashboard than I spent on my car.

On the other hand, I can go out at night with someone who's not my husband, go away for a weekend, go swimming, visit my mum and take a sicky without the world's press landing on my doorstep and without my having to read about it in the next day's paper.

And neither do I have to do all that with half a dozen armed bodyguards in attendance.

[Prudentia]

I'd swap him for a couple of well marbled rib eye steaks from Tesco, much more use and you don't need any camilla dressings.

[weeal]

lol I didnt mean i wouldnt swap HIM, I meant I wouldnt swap jobs WITH him haha

[Prudentia]

flip flop,
I'm sure you don't qualify, you have to be a serial adulterer, a penchant for talking to plants, and taking their answers really seriously, so incompetent at every day tasks that you don't know how on earth to squeeze a tube of toothpaste, and wonder why the british people would just like to see you demoted to an out of work loser, claiming state benefits. Sorry just realised Charles that's what you are!

[keyplus90]

For me the most important thing is what Jake said. What would you do with wealth when you can not even go to a local McDonald with your kids like anyone else would.

[jno]

and even if he gave up the job tomorrow he still wouldn't be able to go to a McDonald's (not that he'd want to of course) for the rest of his life without being surrounded by paparazzi. He does have a job to go to, but it might be 20 years before he actually gets it. Personally, I wouldn't swap places with him. Are you sure you would, flipflop?

[littleoldme]

Can't say I'd swap anything with him, except the money.

Waking up next to Camelface Parkyer Bowels every morning? Shudder.

[abendigo]

should there be such a job?

is there really a job?

lot of spin about ....