"Mike, I'd like you to meet my friend, Jan. Jan is a marine biologist." Or, "Jan works at new shopping center in town."

At social gatherings people spend a great deal of their time discussing work-related matters, and it's easy to begin to feel left out if you can't join in with a horror story about your boss or coworkers. So it's taken as understood that you want to work.

But you don't just want any old job if you also want to retain your sanity.

One of life's little pleasures is to wake up each morning and think to yourself, "Wow! Another day at work."

One of life's miseries is to wake up each morning and think, "Ugh! Another day at work."

It's important to find a job that will prompt first response rather than second.

So how do you find out what job will make you happy (and keep you sane) before you've spent years training for it?

Easy, really. You just have to know yourself.

You need to know: • What you like doing • What you don't like doing • What you are good at doing

Then it's a simple matter of tracking down those jobs that fit your personality and skills. There are numerous questionnaires around to help you work out where your strengths and interests really are.

Did you know that every year thousands of UK properties are sold at significantly below market value? The majority of these properties are released through property auctions where regular savings of between 10% to 40% are available to market value. Even so, property auctions continue to be used only by elite and for astute buyer/investor this generates a fantastic opportunity to secure a dream home/good investment at bargain basement prices.

For example, at a recent auction a studio flat was sold in London for a mere £9,000. In another, a 2 bed flat right on south coast with a market value of upto £100,000 sold for just £14,000 at auction. And those are just a couple of examples of bargains that people do find at property auctions. However it's also important to know potential issues and problems when dealing with auctions and to understand exactly where best deals are available. If you're interested in getting into world of property auctions below tips & tricks of trade should be very helpful.

TYPES OF PROPERTIES FOUND AT AUCTIONS

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The following is a guide to help anyone unlock value available through UK Property Auctions. Thousands of homes are available at any given time with property auctions, most of which are sold at prices far below market value. However it's important to know potential issues and problems when dealing with auctions and to understand where biggest bargains are available. Details of thousands of cheap, repossessed & auction properties are also available at Property Auction Bargains.

Its perfectly reasonable to expect to pay between 15% to 40% less for a property at auction than you would for same property through an estate agent. For example, at a recent auction a studio flat was sold in London for a mere £9,000. In another, a 2 bed flat right on south coast with a market value of upto £100,000 sold for just £14,000 at auction. And those are just a couple of examples of many bargains that people find at property auctions each and every week.

TYPES OF PROPERTIES FOUND AT AUCTIONS

Repossessions – Sadly for previous owners, repossessions can often be picked up at bargain prices through auctions.

Investment properties – Properties, which are valued due to return on investment that they provide. Includes everything from individual office/shop investments to blocks of flats.

Rundown properties – Auctions are great places to pickup properties that are unsaleable in their current state. The attraction here is if you can get such a property in a good location at a cheap price it’s perfectly possible to refurbish and resell on at handsome profits. Indeed there are individuals and organisations that make their living doing this. Unsaleable properties come under following categories:

Derelict or in derelict areas.

Subject to severe disrepair.

Subject to local authority notices.

Subject to closing orders.

Offered with ambiguous legal titles.

Sold without access.

Sold with major fencing, paving, drainage or other similar responsibilities.

Sold subject to covenants or restrictions, which prevent normal use.

Exceptional properties – Include ones that have historical meaning and plots which ‘get in way’ of major development projects.

TYPES OF AUCTION

Large composite – Tend to have over 100 lots. Expect well over 300 people to attend and venue to be held in a large hotel or conference centre. Large composite auctions are likely to be run by a single auction house. The type of property may be restricted to just one (e.g. vacant possession houses, factories, warehouses etc) or may be a mixture of different types.