Started taking bookings on my bus for Turkey and Tinsel so things beginning to look up
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
Permie electricians £30-£45k.
Same as most permie IT jobs then.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostIn the home its dirty hard work but you don't have to pay much tax.
Permie electricians £30-£45k.Comment
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Originally posted by tazdevil View PostDirty work and fiddly. Working in a hot loft or damp basement or overflowing garage with stale air and ancient crap wiring isn't fun, A job for the youngsters unless one likes a permanently sore back and scarred calloused handsAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostYou don't have to be. You just have to be able to pretend convincingly enough.Comment
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Originally posted by tazdevil View PostDirty work and fiddly. Working in a hot loft or damp basement or overflowing garage with stale air and ancient crap wiring isn't fun, A job for the youngsters unless one likes a permanently sore back and scarred calloused hands
Apart from being an MP, head of HR or some cushy civil service number, I think you are out of luck.Comment
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Originally posted by BlueSharp View PostAnyone one else considered going off and doing something completely different instead of contracting, especially in a post CV, IR35, Brexit wasteland? After visiting the countryside for the first time this year I'm off to research how to become a diversified tenant farmer.Comment
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In the next couple of months I am planning to remove all recurring costs that are not absolutely necessary to get monthly outgoings to a minimum.
Then I am going to get any light job that will pay bills and put food on the table and then I will focus on exploring couple of options.
I have a few business ideas to test and develop, but maybe also this is the time to consider moving to Australia / New Zealand or Canada.Comment
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Always wanted to be a pilot. got someway down the route in 2006 with a cadet program for a major. That imploded with the 07/08 fiscal crash so reverted back to IT and later contracting.
By the time things had recovered, cadet programs were long gone and I couldn't justify the switch; £100K training, loss of income while training and dire pay rates for low hours crew...
With hindsight, ducked a bullet!
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Car detailing. Have open offer for when I retire....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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