Whats your exit strategy?

[spudulike]

22 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

 

After fixing my edge cutter and then moving on to fixing my mower the other day, I was wondering if I might have a sideline mending other peoples equipment..

 

what with Utube and picking others brains on here it might only take a few months to get to grips with that sideline.. then again maybe not, of the dozens of mends I've had a stab at, most of ended up in the scrapheap.

I have only lost a couple of bits of kit and take it personally if I cant get something working as it should and guess that is a big part of the equation - having the aptitude, enjoying it and a "nothing can beat me" attitude.

[Pete Mctree]

Become a business seems to be where I am heading. I had tried the managing teams route, but unfortunately my employer was not on the same page.

i have had a few years back contract climbing & cutting & I am slowly developing my own thing. I am employing really good subbies, running with the work smarter and harder ethos & concentrating really hard on my customer care. Fingers crossed that things will work out well.

[spudulike]

27 minutes ago, Pete Mctree said:

Become a business seems to be where I am heading. I had tried the managing teams route, but unfortunately my employer was not on the same page.

i have had a few years back contract climbing & cutting & I am slowly developing my own thing. I am employing really good subbies, running with the work smarter and harder ethos & concentrating really hard on my customer care. Fingers crossed that things will work out well.

Good luck with it Pete, just treat your customers how you would want to be treated yourself and it should work out fine.

[Chris Day]

1 hour ago, spudulike said:

Well I am sure that isn't the case but the point is there and any father should tell their kids how to sort out savings, pension, mortgage etc and how all this stuff works but unfortunately, no one seems to understand it or care!

I did a bit from my mid 20s and it helped me start my own business from being made redundant from the corporate world and that is the point - start early and have a plan!

What he said. Have many baskets with an egg in each.

[Joe Newton]

Always figured I'd cash in on disability benefits

[Mark_Skyland]

Move from the end user to the supplier side of things. Like all new business it does take a bit of time for things to work and this year has been the important turning point for us.

 

It was this or drastically change the way our tree business ran. Trying to compete in the private sector was becoming desperate to say the least.

 

 

 

[Marula]

Move from the end user to the supplier side of things. Like all new business it does take a bit of time for things to work and this year has been the important turning point for us.
 
It was this or drastically change the way our tree business ran. Trying to compete in the private sector was becoming desperate to say the least.
 
 
 

Would you mind elaborating? Did you find there were to many private companies out there?

[Steve Bullman]

12 hours ago, spudulike said:

Well I am sure that isn't the case but the point is there and any father should tell their kids how to sort out savings, pension, mortgage etc and how all this stuff works but unfortunately, no one seems to understand it or care!

I did a bit from my mid 20s and it helped me start my own business from being made redundant from the corporate world and that is the point - start early and have a plan!

Some good advice there spid.  I wish my dad had told me the same

[Khriss]

17 hours ago, Marula said:

 

Thought the same thing but when I tried to go the assessor root I was told they had enough assessors and I'd go on a list.
 

 

Odd that - when there are so many out there working without qualifications , makes you wonder if its a closed shop ? K

[Marula]

Odd that - when there are so many out there working without qualifications , makes you wonder if its a closed shop ? K

 

I contacted Lantra and City and guilds and was told that. They apparently only gave so many spaces from which work is handed out.