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It’s always Noseall with the issue/s! The only opinion he will accept is his own.
@Highway Man earns more and has an easier life with better benefits etc than Boyo’s £1200 a week.
Boyo is obviously jealous
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It’s always Noseall with the issue/s! The only opinion he will accept is his own.
@Highway Man earns more and has an easier life with better benefits etc than Boyo’s £1200 a week.
Boyo is obviously jealous
There’s an elephant in this room no one’s mentioning. Tenth anniversary coming up next year.
Could double up at the weekends as a life guard down the beach.
Always. She's a remarkable woman. Probably a strange concept to you.
years ago you had a limited amount of guys in various trades that were self employed so no shortage of work coming in and people willing to pay the price no social media etc for price checking etc .
Now over past decade or so with newspapers saying people are earning ££££ lots of chancers jumped ship into self employment thinking the roads are paved with gold and in a lot of cases they are shyte tradesmen trying to run before they could walk and saturating the market guys sitting on community facebook pages able to come out and do any job that day. So less jobs per person .
We used to have a couple of dozen qualified gasmen in the town now its got to be about 70 and jesus you wouldnt let half of them in your house then you have everyone thinking they are a plumber because they can fit a garden tap .
So yep a lot of guys take the easy option of stepping back onto the books with all the perks
Now over past decade or so with newspapers saying people are earning ££££ lots of chancers jumped ship into self employment thinking the roads are paved with gold and in a lot of cases they are shyte tradesmen trying to run before they could walk and saturating the market guys sitting on community facebook pages able to come out and do any job that day. So less jobs per person .
We used to have a couple of dozen qualified gasmen in the town now its got to be about 70 and jesus you wouldnt let half of them in your house then you have everyone thinking they are a plumber because they can fit a garden tap .
So yep a lot of guys take the easy option of stepping back onto the books with all the perks
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Exactly
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Sunday's pretty busy for vicars too.
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Goalies?
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Yes I think so
I used to know the padre at Chatham Dockyard, he got paid Sunday overtime rate.
I became self emplyed in 2005 at the age of 50 by accident following my employer going bust and being asked by the administrator to complete some unfinished works and others going into new jobs put work my way too. I never set my day rate, it was set by those employing me as a subby based on my abillityand work quality/ethics but my SE income after all expenses went directly into more than double my decent wage employed income (in fact first 5 weeks in 2005 was £8k), additionally it coincided with my first grandchild being born and only doing a 4 day week. My reputation was such that I was sought after and my day rate increased much quicker than inflation and constantly turned work away. Biggest mistake I made was not going SE years before when it was a serious possibility. I'd paid off mortgages put so much away that I pretty much retired at 63. Now at 70 I still get work offers but all I really accept is local just jobs and repeat visit faults.
In reallity I have no idea what the situation is for 'full time' SE these days
In reallity I have no idea what the situation is for 'full time' SE these days
The comparisons are still the same as they have been for decades. The harder you work, the more you earn. I deliberately limit myself these days, but the ability to earn thousands per week, is still there.
Nothing discernible has changed.
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I was in my mid-20's. The thought of going back on the books never entered my mind. I earn a steady income these days, given that I only have the earning capacity for say 44 weeks of the year. I think having the freedom choices are priceless, v's those who are employed. I paid my mortgage off (I think) in my late forties.
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How's the ankle?
We took on 3 more 25 year mortgages around 2000 and paid all 4 by 2008, certainly wouldn't have happened without SE. As I said granddaddy daycare meant only 4 days/week and I really don't know how many other days I took off during the school holidays to take them to Chessington etc but I imagine more than your 6 weeks including our own holidays.
One of the things I found priceless was my daughters reaction when I'd casually say: "No problem I'll not work tomorrow."
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Is that really what you think and meant to say?
Are you unable to see that the value of what you do and the demand for it, vs the ability of others to do it for less dictates what you earn?
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