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    labouring for more experience

    I will ask some guys outside Building merchants etc. I found working with experienced people with patience worth doing for low pay as I can then use it myself and make money. A decorator friend tells me prices for jobs which i would have no idea about and invites me out on jobs which I can...
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    labouring for more experience

    Got site carpentry level 2 from evening classes. Learnt so much more when have worked with a carpenter though. Got to keep asking I guess. I won't be availabe five days a week every week but still a few days all i can do is ask
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    labouring for more experience

    fair play but surely if you get stuck in learning something is fair request
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    labouring for more experience

    I won't. I get stuck in. Just saying learning nothing for £60 and bad back is pointless. If I can learn one thing then it's worth it
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    advertising in shop windows

    Yeah one number would be less hassle. The thing with handyman ads- i put three areas I can do. if they see you as jack of all trades (possibly not totally sure how people think but I worry this is how I am seen as a handyman) and dont take you too seriously- e.g. ask you to put a curtain...
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    labouring for more experience

    obviously i'll do it but if I can either help or observe useful stuff it's a bonus
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    advertising in shop windows

    I put up a general handyman postcard but then a gardening or decorating or carpentry one as well so have two usually in one shop window. I have put a different phone number on other card. I thought if people noticed two of same phone numbers they wouldn't take me seriously. Am I overthinking...
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    labouring for more experience

    Get paid rubbish money so if I labour I would like to learn while working with others. Want to learn some carpentry and other tip I can use on my handyman jobs. So helping a chippy hang a door would be great but carrying heavy crap about seems pointless to me. I earn twice the £60 labour...
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