Has the tables turned?

[Highway Man]

Patios, walls, foundations, basements, hedges. He was a multi skilled builder… and psychopath

Noseall?

 

[Mottie]

Best of all is employed on a decent salary with plenty o' perks and privates on the side. No hassle from the taxman either.

 

[pete01]

Patios, walls, foundations, basements, hedges. He was a multi skilled builder… and psychopath

Aren't they all

 

[pete01]

Dr Crippin? He damaged loads of floorboards and pipes

That was a cellar

 

[Highway Man]

Best of all is employed on a decent salary with plenty o' perks and privates on the side. No hassle from the taxman either.

Exactly my point,

 

[Highway Man]

That was a cellar

Shut yer pie hole and stop nit picking

 

[motorbiking]

Noseall?

Fred was considered to be of very low intelligence

 

[Highway Man]

Fred was considered to be of very low intelligence

 

[Highway Man]

Fred was considered to be of very low intelligence

Noseall

 

[Deleted member 317777]

How many years ago are we talking here?

Explain how do todays' self employed differ from those of yesteryear in that respect. It sounds like nebulous fluff to me.

Eh? Why not? How is it more risky being self employed today than it was previously?

You could start by making (coherent) sense. At least then I could begin.

Triggered

 

[Highway Man]

Triggered

He is such a loser

 

[noseall]

Good god man. Wages compared to self employment in the electrical industry was always night and day. Wages were never high, jobs and conditions were poor in comparison . Self employed sparks enjoyed choosing their own work and charged a premium at the same time.
Now skilled and qualified people are hard to recruit for employers and so wages have shot through the roof along with conditions vastly improving to entice people in. Self employment was a risk to a family man with a mortgage and work was not in abundance unlike getting an employed job which was easy. The pickings were rich for good self employed sparks if you could get the work.

Nothing has changed in regards to any of what you said above. It waxes and wains throughout the ages.

 

[noseall]

The tax rules have change for a start.

Tax rules consistently change. Nothing new there.

 

[Highway Man]

Nothing has changed in regards to any of what you said above. It waxes and wains throughout the ages.

What has drastically changed is the wages and conditions that sparks like myself can command from an employed status without the risk of self employment. Massively.

 

[noseall]

He thinks it's better to be employed than self employed

Nonsense.
There are folk that would hate to be self employed and vice versa. There is no 'one size fits all'.