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mm thats a hard one.
I was self employed for 15 years and hated pretty much all of it, the clients, the hours, the demands from the tax man. remember that the buck stops and starts with you if you are self employed.
All well and good saying "you can pick your hours" try telling the bank manager that he cant bounce your mortgage cos you took a week off and did not earn enough money!!
My tuppence worth is that it sucks the big one royally
I was self employed for 15 years and hated pretty much all of it, the clients, the hours, the demands from the tax man. remember that the buck stops and starts with you if you are self employed.
All well and good saying "you can pick your hours" try telling the bank manager that he cant bounce your mortgage cos you took a week off and did not earn enough money!!
My tuppence worth is that it sucks the big one royally
i did it for 3 years and have to admit you eat, breath & sleep it. If you are going for it i would recommend genuine 24 hour call out, it makes up for the slack weeks.
I work 9-5 now for a chain of schools, money not as good but i do have time for jobs on the side.
I work 9-5 now for a chain of schools, money not as good but i do have time for jobs on the side.
Depends how much the steady wage is .......and how near you are to a city..........totall nightmare S/E out here in the stix.......spend half a day travelling on your own time and petroltimmy74 said:can anyone recommend it? i work as a gas engineer and also a plumber and wanna new challenge would anyone say its worth the leap, or just stick to steady wage
I like to paddle my own canoe, no work politics, no fight for time off during school holidays or if one of children is sick, no tellings off.
Money isn't the issue, long as I can feed the family.
Work? never runs out, bit of a problem being hassled by customers old and new, may have to revert to older method of running business of answerphone, so have time in the day to do the work instead of being a receptionist, mostly fielding salesmen/women.
Not answering private numbers is quite a good policy but people who are x directory come up private, amaising how many of my customers are ex directory.
The guy who answered about doing guvvy work shouldn't be doing it unless he's corgi registered in his own right or talking about wet plumbing.
Money isn't the issue, long as I can feed the family.
Work? never runs out, bit of a problem being hassled by customers old and new, may have to revert to older method of running business of answerphone, so have time in the day to do the work instead of being a receptionist, mostly fielding salesmen/women.
Not answering private numbers is quite a good policy but people who are x directory come up private, amaising how many of my customers are ex directory.
The guy who answered about doing guvvy work shouldn't be doing it unless he's corgi registered in his own right or talking about wet plumbing.
Nige F said:timmy74 said:can anyone recommend it? i work as a gas engineer and also a plumber and wanna new challenge would anyone say its worth the leap, or just stick to steady wage.......totall nightmare S/E out here in the stix.......spend half a day travelling on your own time and petrol
roughly 25.6k per year, i work for them with the blue vans and the flame on the side you know.. trouble is now at work im a gasman, plumber, secrectary, social worker (to the customers). im 31 now wanna try something new. i know ive got a steady job but sometimes if you dont take the leap you regret it later in life
We have to be social workers, and charitable organisations as well as all the rest, and we have to do our own risk assessments, arrange our insurance carry a fire extinguisher (without which insurance isn't valid, etc etc) the job lot of whatever anyone does in your organisation we do alone, or if we don't do it and something happens we are very exposed.
26.5 is about what`s being offered down here in the "wealthy" S.E.by sucessful private firms...and thats DOUBLE what most young`uns are making on the few "industrial" sites and diy shedstimmy74 said:Nige F said:timmy74 said:can anyone recommend it? i work as a gas engineer and also a plumber and wanna new challenge would anyone say its worth the leap, or just stick to steady wage.......totall nightmare S/E out here in the stix.......spend half a day travelling on your own time and petrol
roughly 25.6k per year, i work for them with the blue vans and the flame on the side you know.. trouble is now at work im a gasman, plumber, secrectary, social worker (to the customers). im 31 now wanna try something new. i know ive got a steady job but sometimes if you dont take the leap you regret it later in life
Houses start @ 150k.......Wait `till you`re 40 m8......the labour market,The Labour Party and the Housing market can do anything in the next 10 years 
You`ve gotta be in a cheap area..Durham ?.........I`m only here by accident of birth 
Oh, yeah.......I got Arthritis @ 35 so that buggered my career too So in my Genuine opinion ........your risks outweigh your possible gains.........get yourself a bike .great hobby that I`ve indulged since 1970 
Good Luck anyways
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