Living payday to payday.

[BoyBlue_1985]

Not having kids means I dont have to do that or even worry about it in honesty

Hallelujah to me

 

[Blue Til Death]

I was born with fuck all and I still have most of it left.. !

 

[Pigeonho]

I work in an industry where The skill you take years to learn and years to perfect is valued no higher than minimum wage. I love floristry but self employement means weeks without work or pay and too much uncertainty. So it's getting fecked off for a stable job in retail

I love floristry but can't afford to do it anymore

I know this will be naive of me, but going off what Mrs P and I paid for the flowers for the wedding - that wasn't minimum wage. Are there large outlays/overheads in that game, Femibob?

Yes, flower prices change from week to week, sometimes they are ridiculously priced at the Market, and there are times when no orders are coming in at all so you have to decide if you want to be part of a relay. I've worked in shops where if you are with a relay like interflora or teleflorist they take about 60% of the money that comes through orders and you have to buy all their packaging and stationary. Then I've working in the wedding events industry where you travel up and down England and they want very expensive flowers and candelabras and vases which sometimes get stolen or broken, so massive overheads with petrol and accessories . And yes out trade isn't valued as highly as other skills which is odd because is really hard work. Florists earn between £6.30 and £7.00 an hour

I see. I take back the 'robbing twats' tantrum I had when Mrs P went to our florist! (tantrum had outside, not directly to them).

 

[malg]

I work in an industry where The skill you take years to learn and years to perfect is valued no higher than minimum wage. I love floristry but self employement means weeks without work or pay and too much uncertainty. So it's getting fecked off for a stable job in retail

I love floristry but can't afford to do it anymore

I know this will be naive of me, but going off what Mrs P and I paid for the flowers for the wedding - that wasn't minimum wage. Are there large outlays/overheads in that game, Femibob?

Yes, flower prices change from week to week, sometimes they are ridiculously priced at the Market, and there are times when no orders are coming in at all so you have to decide if you want to be part of a relay. I've worked in shops where if you are with a relay like interflora or teleflorist they take about 60% of the money that comes through orders and you have to buy all their packaging and stationary. Then I've working in the wedding events industry where you travel up and down England and they want very expensive flowers and candelabras and vases which sometimes get stolen or broken, so massive overheads with petrol and accessories . And yes out trade isn't valued as highly as other skills which is odd because is really hard work. Florists earn between £6.30 and £7.00 an hour

Not all rosy then?

 

[Timmmmahhhh]

Not all rosy then?

Took three pages, people aren't on form today.

 

[bobmcfc]

Like I said Ive been down the self employed route and there have been weeks where the work has just dried up so I'm just going to do a stable fun retail job. I love people, love being busy and I'm chatty. Ive done the 60 hours a week thing, coming home at 2am and back out at 7am to travel to Darlington or Liverpool or wherever and it's fun work but it's very seasonal and wedding floristry and venue dressing is the part of the industry so would hate to be stuck in a florist shop when half the time you have sod all to do and nobody even comes in the shop. so, I'm going to work around my daughtee for a while and do a normal job lol

 

[mcmanus]

I was born with fuck all and I still have most of it left.. !

Great phrase and I'm nicking it.

 

[George Hannah]

Please cheer me up and say it's not only me who does this.

What a **** of a month this is, and each month for the foreseeable future!

The Middle-classes need not reply

GDM does this but it's four years in arrears thanks to his clerk's facility with tax law.

 

[peoffrey]

I had £3 to my name yesterday and if I hadn't been paid today then I'd be hungry.

 

[aguero93:20]

I get paid weekly, much easier.
Still, payday tomorrow and I've been skint since Tuesday.