My mum says I was born at 35 and grow more middle aged each day!
Ok, so call me old fashioned, but I always thought that being successful, meant getting good grades, a good job, nice car, house and retiring once your grand kids are grown up. Spending the rest of my time watching Countdown all day long.
With all this 'new age' stuff, people just won't grow old gracefully!
They have started putting the butter knife in the jam jar and blacked out their number plates on their mobility scooters, as they run into the backs of peoples legs and make off!
Swopped eating malted milk biscuits for Party Rings and swigging Iron Bru!
So with all these 'hip' grannies, it should be no surprise, that a new more successful teenager has been born.
Just the other week we had at school, we had an Enterprise day to "broaden our horizons" and teach us to be more successful and resourceful. We had to make a company and design, produce, market and sell a product of our choice.
To prepare we watched an entire series of 'Dragon's Den', being the expert I now was, I was ready for the challenge, obviously I had to be in charge!
As we started, it was slowly dawning on me, that I was out-classed! I was being bombarded with all sorts of mumbo jumbo, which quite frankly could of been pure Klingon, for all the sense it made to me.
They transformed that room of sweaty adolescents into an efficient, well oiled machine. When we lifted the title of 'Most Likely To Succeed', I just knew there were some future Bill Gates and Billie Gates waiting in the wings!
What did I learn that day?
Given the opportunity, teenagers can succeed in almost anything and some teenagers are born to succeed!
When I mentioned this to my Nan, being the skeptical she offered the following encouragement "Don't be ridiculous!"
Hey, I guess she was just remembering when they had to write on stone tablets!
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