YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING…ONE MANS JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE TO PROVE THAT HIS TEACHER WAS WRONG

I recently upgraded my biography: You Will Never Amount to Anything…One Man's Journey Through Life to Prove His Teacher Wrong. It’s a great read about an ordinary person from a northern English town in the 1960s beating the odds to leave the UK to fulfil my dream of travelling the world and getting a better life than the one which was mapped out for me.
SYNOPSIS
When I was four years old, my mum took me and my brother to Jamaica to join my dad who had been transferred from London to work in Kingston Town as a foreman scaffolder on a twelve-month contract. There began my love affair with island life, sea, sand and surf. A few years later, when we returned to the UK we moved to Middlesbrough in northeast England, my dad’s home town. We went from living like royalty, on a sun-drenched island, surrounded by palm trees, clear blue seas and golden beaches, to living in impoverished conditions in a cold, colourless northern town, with steelworks and two chemical plants polluting the air with toxic gasses. I made a promise to myself then that I was going to get out of that town and get back to Jamaica or some other island or country where there were happy smiling faces, blue seas, parrots, beaches and sunshine as soon as I possibly could. The day I left school for the last time, was the day the school broke up for the Easter holidays. The headmaster had decided that the few pupils who were not staying on to do their CSE or GCSE exams and who were leaving school for good on that day, should leave at lunch time. There were only six of us and we were escorted from the school grounds by one of the teachers. When we were approaching the school gates I heard a voice from behind yelling “You lot will never amount to anything, you’ll all end up as drunks, unemployed or in prison” I recognised the voice straight away, it was Mr Bagley, my science teacher, who had bullied, tormented and beaten me at every opportunity over the past four years. That just made me more determined to get away from England and start a new life in the tropics. His words have stayed with me to this day, and they have given me the strength to prove him wrong. I have had to cheat, lie and live by my wits to achieve my goals but since that day I have never looked back. I have worked as a chef on cruise ships, five star hotels and restaurants around the world, been to the Antarctic, lived in ten different countries, own four investment properties and a share portfolio, had my own successful advertising business, own a beautiful house on the Gold Coast in Australia, own a boat in Boracay in the Philippines, wrote and had a book published on how to retire in Thailand, and I now live on the beautiful island of Koh Samui in the Gulf of Thailand.
My life’s been fantastic Mr Bagley. How about yours?
Book Video Links… Click on the link then in the top right corner of the page choose the country/region that you are living in.
You Will Never Amount to Anything …tinyurl.com/3y...
The Retire in Thailand Handbook 2023… tinyurl.com/3j...
Ten Best Countries to Retire on Your Pension tinyurl.com/yc...
My other books… tinyurl.com/38...
A Three-Week Road Trip Through Northwest Thailand…tinyurl.com/38...
A Three-Week Road Trip Through Southern Thailand tinyurl.com/38...
Thai Died- Bar Girl… tinyurl.com/2v...
Thai Died-Murder in Paradise… tinyurl.com/2v...
Thai Died…Lawyers, Guns and Money. tinyurl.com/38...
Links to my social media:
My books on Thailand… tinyurl.com/36...
My Facebook… / ged.hogg.3 Twitter… / geraldhogg3witter
My website… sspchef.wixsit...
MY BIOGRAPHY
• You Will Never Amount to Anything
THE RETIREMENT SERIES OF BOOKS
• The Retire in Thailand Handbook (The First Six Months)
• Same-Same but Different
• A Retirees Guide to Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, and Bal
• A Retirees Guide to South East Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam, The Philippines and Laos
• The 10 Best Countries in The World to Retire on a Pension
• The Retire in Thailand Handbook 2023 (The Next Six Years)
• A Three-Week Road Trip Through Sothern Thailand
FICTION
• The Deptford Mask Murders
• Murder In Paradise
• Bar Girl
• Lawyers Guns and Money
• Adolf Fittler

[@legambaz]

Great sharing. A remarkable career and wonderful lifetime experience I'd say. Cheers and don't let us wait for the upcoming videos.

[@thailandmyland...retiringd2351]

Thanks mate. Yes I was fortunate enough to see that there were other opportunities available if you were willing to go and look for them. It hasn't always been a bed of roses but there has been much more upsides than downsides. Hopefully there's still a few years left in me
Cheers
Ged

[@shaunmcpolin8166]

You've certainly proved him wrong Ged boy 👍.. you've had & are still living a great life👌fair play to you mate .. hope you're keeping well & having a few beers still 🍺🍺not much to miss back here except the climate 👎😞.. keep up the good work mate 👍🇹🇭

[@thailandmyland...retiringd2351]

Thanks Shaun. I think that I was lucky enough to be growing up in the mid sixties when the world was changing so much. People were realising that there was a big world out there waiting to be discovered