Anyone run another buisness alongside their main one.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

I'm a semi professional poker player.

Long shot... Do you know Scott Betteridge? Tall, freaky looking fucker from Pensilva, well into his online & tournament poker? Makes a fair turn of it by all accounts. 

[Mark J]

Can't say I'm accquainted.  Although I look like him given your description.

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Can't say I'm accquainted.  Although I look like him given your description.

 

He cracks on that he makes some tidy money from it, ranks in the regional, national & international tournaments apparently (I’m not sure how much of that is BS - but I guess that’s a good characteristic in a poker player?) I’m not for gambling myself, too tight wad. There was an interesting case I remember where a poker player bent HMRC over and gave them a spank which pleased me! They claimed it was declarable income and he said it was hobby (I’ll have to look it up now... can’t quite remember if it was HMRC or a bitchy ex wife CSA scenario...)

[Mark J]

I'm fairly confident that poker is a game of skill.  I tend to play in person rather than online.  I just send things to my accountant and she sorts things out.

[LeeGray]

Small organic farm growing veg and meat to sell direct to public, steel fabrication (gates, sheds, trailers etc) groundwork, fencing.

[Anno]

Danny Baker 'look a like' (not much work unfortunately...)

[maria warwick]

I spend 20 hours a week as a Support Worker , caring for a lad with autism . The rest is made up of tree work , lawns , hedges etc etc...

Edited April 9, 2018 by maria warwick

[JLA Arborists]

I don’t run another business, but do other things.
Tree surgery being main source of income
-Retained firefighter
-Barwork / backbar & barrels at a few festivals (bloodstock being the best)
Santa at a local garden centre

[Mark Wileman]

On 4/9/2018 at 06:12, LeeGray said:

Small organic farm growing veg and meat to sell direct to public, steel fabrication (gates, sheds, trailers etc) groundwork, fencing.

Does your veg stuff turn a worthwhile profit? I've been thinking along similar lines for a while now...

[LeeGray]

2 hours ago, Mark Wileman said:

Does your veg stuff turn a worthwhile profit? I've been thinking along similar lines for a while now...

It does for us but we’ve developed a good customer base over past 15 years. It’s a hard sell saying it’s the season for x so here’s x rather than the have whatever you want whenever you want the supermarket way but there’s always a few people willing to pay for top quality fresh produce with some traceability.