About to lose my job, looking to start a new career, any advice please...

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Spend your redundancy on a quality drone.
Put yourself through the Civilian air authority drone pilots course.
Seems to be a great demand going forward.

Talking of drone, it may be worth a pm to him about his lucrative male oral massage business.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Cars, ovens, carpets....all been done to death and everyone's trying to undercut the next one ( That last sentence above is very true ), but...everything gets dirty and therefore needs cleaning. Got a couple of window cleaners round here doing OK, could do with charging a bit more tbh. It all depends on density of population and any competition. We set up a laundry in a one horse town cleaning bedding for the tourist trade 10 yrs ago, cant really complain in all fairness, work about 3 days a week, maybe 4 in the height of the season.

Yep there is loads doing it thats for sure. But few are doing a good job , being on time, charging fair prices and they dont last long.
Where as the ones that do all of the above do well.
Also, can be the best in the world, but if youre a bit of an arse, the customer isnt having you back

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Yep there is loads doing it thats for sure. But few are doing a good job , being on time, charging fair prices and they dont last long.
Where as the ones that do all of the above do well.
Also, can be the best in the world, but if youre a bit of an arse, the customer isnt having you back

That's one good reason for offering a ' cleaning ' service, once you have your customers and if you're good, most will stay with you, you will retain roughly 40%, after 3 - 4 years you have the ideal client base.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Not read all of this thread so this might of been asked, where do you live, I work in the cargo centre at Manchester Airport, you would need 5 years references and a CRC ,the money for warehouse work 35k a year, different environment for you, I used to work on the ramp at the airport but fancied a change, I'm mainly office/classroom based and couldn't be happier

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Talking of drone, it may be worth a pm to him about his lucrative male oral massage business.

I PMed him a minute after he started the thread. Need a replacement for you.

 

[A57 the snake]

Buy a Dinghy and call her … dignity ;)

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Buy a Dinghy and call her … dignity ;)

 

[BridgyDids]

How did you get on @KDB Fan ?

 

[KDB Fan]

How did you get on @KDB Fan ?

Still working the same job which is good in the sense that it pays the bills but not ideal long term when I'd rather be doing something that isn't office based tbh. Currently doing up a house though and learnt some new skills, including electrical work so I could possibly do a qualification in that but I haven't signed up to anything as of yet.

 

[Bill Walker]

Still working the same job which is good in the sense that it pays the bills but not ideal long term when I'd rather be doing something that isn't office based tbh. Currently doing up a house though and learnt some new skills, including electrical work so I could possibly do a qualification in that but I haven't signed up to anything as of yet.

Train to be a aircon installation or service technician and move over here, $200k a year.
Big shortage, also floor tilers.

 

[Bri1975]

Are you left footed and any good at defending ?

 

[stonerblue]

Copper or communications officer..

 

[blue moony]

Re bump thread

Had 2 major surgeries in 4 weeks and been told to reconsider my job.. have been a PT for 10 years , moneys been good but i need to retrain ... this thread was interesting

 

[idahoblues]

Re bump thread

Had 2 major surgeries in 4 weeks and been told to reconsider my job.. have been a PT for 10 years , moneys been good but i need to retrain ... this thread was interesting

How old are you ?

 

[blue moony]

How old are you ?

43

 

[idahoblues]

43

The world is your oyster

However hurry up :)

 

[hilts]

Re bump thread

Had 2 major surgeries in 4 weeks and been told to reconsider my job.. have been a PT for 10 years , moneys been good but i need to retrain ... this thread was interesting

I thought exercise was good for you :-)

 

[idahoblues]

I thought exercise was good for you :-)

Pain, pain pain

 

[BridgyDids]

Re bump thread

Had 2 major surgeries in 4 weeks and been told to reconsider my job.. have been a PT for 10 years , moneys been good but i need to retrain ... this thread was interesting

I recommended a few things in this thread, happy for you to reach out if you wish

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Start a cleaning company .

Where there is muck there is brass.

I left a fairly decent career in mortgages 17 years ago. Set up myself as a cleaning company, took a part time job (for about 8 months) to help keep the wolves from the door whilst my little company grew and all these years later i earn decent money, dont work long hours (6 a day, 5 days a week) and more importantly im my own boss in charge of my own destiny

Loads doing it, not many reliable or conscientious, the good ones thrive

As a small commercial laundry we deal with a lot of small one man bands and a couple of firms employing cleaners and you're right, there are a lot doing it as it's a cheap and easy entry to market. The good ones, as you say, do thrive. People ask me for cleaners details and generally I cant give them the good ones because they're busy, and charging £20 + / hr plus anything they can make on the laundry, which we do......