Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Just reading another post on here and wondered how many of you would categorise yourself as a 'risk taker'? Does this help and is it the piece of the puzzle that makes it work here in Australia? Should we be less cautious and fly by the seat of our pants more? Is it easier when there is only the two of you to consider? Harder when there are children involved? As the daughter of a dad who did what he wanted, when he wanted, and how he wanted, we kids just had to go along for the ride regardless, him not always making the best decisions, but ones that he felt were right at the time. Needless to say, his life was full and colourful and never a dull moment. He loved Australia and the wildness of the place, always threatening that one day he would 'go bush' ( must be a services thing! )My life has been quite opposite to that. Just wondered to what degree you see yourselves as risk takers in this journey, and what amount of risk you would be prepared to take on in order to live your dream out? Pea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemzee Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I am definately not a risk taker! and although I have flown halfway across the world away from my family and friends to begin a new life here in Perth I'm in the mind set that it'll work out fantastic (I'm hoping) or......it won't & I'll go home, so not sure if I consider it a big risk or not to be honest! It probably makes a big difference that its just me & my fiance, we have no children to consider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verystormy Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 No, at least not now. Think i used to be more, but as i have got older i find i am a lot more adverse to risk. Probably because of my job where risks are thought about a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 No, at least not now. Think i used to be more, but as i have got older i find i am a lot more adverse to risk. Probably because of my job where risks are thought about a lot Thats exactly how I feel, the older I get the less flighty I get, still have a bit of the gypsy streak in me, but the older I get the more sensible I seem to get Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portlaunay Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Definitely. I can't even plan dinner! Completely the opposite at work but at home I've never had a plan, stuff just happens, opportunities present themselves, sometimes rough, sometimes smooth. It is kind of chaotic and I'm certainly thinking more about the future and considering taking a little more control but part of me thinks that if we commit to something we'll miss out on other stuff that might come along. There are things that I'd like to be certain of - remaining in Oz for one but I've seen so little of this country who's to say where we'll be in 12 months. Some things I'm pretty sure of is that I'd like some land, I'd like to keep pigs, make proscuitto, build a treehouse, grow veggies, smoke an occasional Cohiba, drink Islay malt with my dearest friends, watch my son play guitar, my daughter dance and my wife smile until I die. I don't know that anything else really matters to me. I guess if anything, taking risks has taught me that life really is full of surprises and that planning for something and achieving it never really satisfies me in the way an unexpected discovery does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 'Holy smoking cohibas batman'......hehe! Spontaneity ( can't spell) it disappears with age the best evenings or days out have always been the unplanned ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Not really - I take calculated risks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portlaunay Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Spontaneity ( can't spell) it disappears with age the best evenings or days out have always been the unplanned ones! It doesn't have to does it? I can often be heard saying things like, "We need to plan what we're doing this weekend." To my family this roughly translates as, "Can you suggest half a dozen things we could do this weekend to inspire me and make me realise I don't want to do any of those and I'll make my own mind up on Saturday morning?" If I plan to do something, by the time the day comes around I'll have thought about it and it'll bore me. Mrs p has learnt to keep her mouth shut and spring it upon me surreptitiously and make it sound awesome. I can get very excited about an unplanned trip to Kmart if it's sold in the right way! I'm such an idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 My hubby says.....' So what's the plan, or what's the hidden agenda this weekend pea?' He knows me too well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portlaunay Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 My hubby says.....' So what's the plan, or what's the hidden agenda this weekend pea?' He knows me too well! That's awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfie Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I would possibly say we are more spur of the moment spontaneous folks. But have to agree the age thing does slow it down some what on times. Im more of the risk taker hubby a bit more grounded than me. He tends to think about things more specially after we have done it. Ha ha its a bit to late then though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Helloooo Elfie, I have the same with my husband, he doesn't do spontaneous, he is a 'list' man....I'm more of a scrawl it on my hand person, then it washes off and I forget the plan....or have made a different one, does keep him on his toes though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfie Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Hi Pea or another word could be impulsive who knows who cares life is what you make and where it takes you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobopaulsy Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 We looked at moving to Oz in 2010 then wife got cold feet..... Woke up one day in January this year and she said AP lets go, i'm gonna look at the Oz thingy again !!!!! (i got my hopes up the first time so this time i just though yeah right !!!!) Risk Taker ?????? (you tell me) She's been offered a job and now just waiting on the 457 sponsor number and we hope to be there end Aug or start Sept time !!!!!!!! We moved out of house in april into a pokey flat to save money.....sort of working (lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 The trick was Bob to make your wife think she had made the decision.....always works! good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobopaulsy Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Cheers P......i always let her have the good idea's Bobo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redsquare Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Am I a risk taker? I've never been to Australia but I'm about to move there permanently with no job lined up. We've sold our house and furniture. We've handed in our notices at work. This would suggest that I take risks and I'm spontaneous. However, I've spent the last 18 month planning by looking at housing and cars, going on forums and looking at areas on street view. And, if you asked my friends who would be the least likely person to move to the other side of the world, they'd say me. I am a conundrum wrapped up in an enigma wrapped up in an idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 ....I'm more of an onion.....many layers! Talking of conundrums I do miss countdown.....dongadongadong....didididlllllelllllleydioooooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackboots Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I'm a thoughtful risk taker...is that possible ? I also plant the thoughts to my dh .. Walk away and let him come back with his idea ( maybe it was mine ) he either shoots me down in flames or is righty oh. ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest9824 Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I'm a thoughtful risk taker...is that possible ? I also plant the thoughts to my dh .. Walk away and let him come back with his idea ( maybe it was mine ) he either shoots me down in flames or is righty oh. ! Yep it's possible.....us women have all the good ideas don't we really! Trick is to let them think that they know what we know what they know.....hehe.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackboots Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I hear ya ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odies Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I must be abit of a risk taker as I am retiring to Oz. however last weekend the weather was great with no plans with my younger son and his girls we took to the Norfolk Broads on a boat and had the best time ever, now wondering if I am right to retire to Oz, Life is one long worry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgiasmammy Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover". – Mark Twain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Hey, I'm a man of logic, I'm a man of planning. I consider every detail, I factor in every possibility. Then I flip a coin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinetic Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 Always played it pretty safe to be honest, so maybe now is the time not to. However, I have done so much research it hurts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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