What is your job ?

Another decent thread that's become all about HIAG, in HIAG's head that is. Shame.

 

You seem to have got awfully excited about my first job being a baker.

Do you stick your cock in the hole of ring doughnut or something ?

 

Derail ahoy!
FFS HIAG

 

I'm not going to tell you.

I've seen what's happening to Pixie, and no way do I want that kind of piss-taking.

 

Right let's get this thread back on topic again, before HIAG starts blathering on about his doughnut fetish.

 

Fluffer, confirmed.

 

Why are you not all over this like a rash, Bod?

Pixie is Windy Miller!

Can you not see the wum-potential in this?

This is a goldmine to someone like me!

You think I'm going to give this up so easily? Is the Pope Jewish?

 

Best thing I ever did starting up my own business. I'd worked with a few entrepreneurs before on the festival circuits, seeing how people could take an idea and turn it into a thriving business, with minimal initial layout. I've always been interested in doing something similar, but then got into health and social care work and being half good at it, climbed the ladder to a fairly senior management position with a good salary, benefits, status etc, but it was never really me.

It was when my daughter was born that I really wanted to make some changes and get a better work / homelife balance, so I went for it and started my own health food business, working on top of my paid job initially, then took the plunge and went full self-employed after the first year. It was a leap of faith, giving up a big salary, pension, holiday pay, sick pay etc etc, but it's the best thing I ever did. Working for yourself is incomparable and there is no way that I would ever go back to working for somebody else again

 

Because this is a thread where we have someone talking about the death of their son and how it affected him etc, interspersed with you trying to WUM someone for being a baker.......know when to WUM bud....

 

HIAG, the lads are telling you to shut the **** up mate. Take a hint son.

 

Running my own business gives so much more job satisfaction than any job I've done working for others. You know the work you're putting in is to build something for yourself. It means working long hours at times but also gives a level of flexibility I've not had in previous jobs. I can't see myself working for someone else again unless it was a really good opportunity.

 

It's useful as a top up. Can make an ordinary work Pension into a reasonable sum. I'm 52, would mess up my financial planning if I was to lose it. Currently £122 per week on top of what I will have saved will make a big difference. I wouldn't want to live on just that, but that plus work/private pensions should allow me to travel, run a car etc comfortably.

 

Is the punch line - including Spurs?

 

I'd love to work for myself...it's that leap of faith in what you are trying to sell. Have to have faith in it wish I can do that someday...like you say...work/family life balance is paramount to me too. That's why I am happy doing what I do currently. No stress and I hate doing a job I take home with me, physically or emotionally. When I clock out...I don't care what happens behind me. When it's your own business it's yours and you can integrate it into your life a bit more...seems perfect to me.

 

Oh, **** right off, Bod!

That's a pretty low blow.

 

No way!

I'm running this as hard as Bambi is running his "Quents" bollocks, as hard as Skiddy is running his "HiagSaints" bollocks, and as hard as you are running your "wum ****-up!" bollocks.

 

No mate.....the general consensus is...YOU **** off.

Yes it is a low blow to derail a thread on a serious topic with your bullshit.
Like I said, if you want to be the "WUM master" then you'd best learn when it is appropriate to WUM and when it isn't.
And right now, it isn't.

 

Yeah I made that leap....
it all went to ****, but I made it.
It's definitely something you should try.
Now I am in a job I enjoy, on decent money, and I have two kids to support, not sure if I'd be so willing to make that leap again now.....

 

It's having faith in what you want to sell. Every time I've had an idea...I've seen that someone has made the money, saturated the market and retired already. Gone are the days when ideas were fresh and you had a chance...now it's got to be something special or Whiz kiddy and I'm not that. I'll keep on thinking of something.

 

My old job was stress to the max, not only dealing with the gargantuan bureaucracy of the NHS, but I have dealt with some really ****ty situations in people's lives. Going home not knowing whether the person you've been working with that day is going to kill themsleves that night. Wondering whether the woman who came to you crying about how her partner was beating her up was going to be safe. Knowing that some people didn't even have a home to go back to and would be spending the night on the street. No matter how much you develop professional boundaries, anybody with a soul cannot simply switch off from that stuff.

When I started my own business, I knew I had a good idea, as I was a customer previously. But I thought I could improve on what was available in the market and make it more ethical and sustainable. I import a lot of ingredients from Peru and Ecuadorian rainforest, and my business is one of only a few who make sure everything is fair trade, 100% organic, uses sustainable methods and works closely with the growers. I even use a company that does transatlantic crossings by sail, and the growers use no petrochemicals on their farms, so no tractors or petrol powered machinery. Everything is grown and exported to the highest ethical and environmental standards. So that makes me unique in the market.

On a personal level though, working for myself means that every hour I put in is for me and my family and everything that I do is my own decision working toward my own goals. The flexibility is great, I can go for a surf, swim, cycle etc when I want to and more importantly I've got time for my daughter, so I can take her to the park, go down the beach, take and pick her up from Nursery, be around for dinner, bath, bedtime stories etc, then I can go and do some work and don't mind working until 11pm - midnight. I've got my own premises, it's like my man den. I can stick the radio on, listen to some footie or current affairs programme and get on with my work, and I'm like a pig in ****