From redundancy to new business venture

toffeejack · September 9, 2013

all the best kev, i wish we had more people in our country who were as productive as you.

Baines' left foot · September 9, 2013

heatmeiser said:
Best of luck mate, hope you're a success.

Actually, reminds me of the time I was a part-time binman, while I was at uni. There was this one street where they couldn't have wheelie bins because of the way the houses were built (through-light upper dwellings or something), so they still had the old school dustbins.

One morning I lifted a binlid to grab the bags, as usual, and as I did a King Cobra reared up out of it!

King Cobras are my least favourite snake so I didn't hang around, I just gave it toes out of there. I quit the next week when one of my colleagues thought it was funny to put a load of used syringes in my hood.

Christ.

Good luck Kev.

If I can offer you any advice at all it would be to put quality/workmanship first at all times, even if it puts you out of pocket a little or eats into your wages. Like with anything, practice makes perfect and it's best to get it right before you get quicker at it (sorry if this sounds condescending). Word of mouth is the best form of advertising and it is completely free, and it'll open up other opportunities for you.

Not trying to blow my own trumpet but I've been a bricklayer in various capacities for 8 years now and I've always put quality above all else, and I can honestly say I've only ever come across a handful of others who have quality standards even in the same ballpark, and as a result I've always got work to go to if and when I need it.