Lost the plot?

[Mark Stanton]

QUOTE

Personally, retrain as a plumber or electrician,

Wise words Mr J         reliable tradesmen are thin on the ground and offer an ideal opportunity to become your own boss        

Plasterers, carpenters, heating and plumbing, electricians        

[S13RUM]

QUOTE

reliable tradesmen are thin on the ground

[Mark Stanton]

QUOTE

reliable tradesmen are thin on the ground

except for electricians in Holmfirth        

[TerryC]

Ahem

I've worked through an agency for the last 11 years and I have never had any problems. The staff know that they are there to find us work, and the incentive to do there job professionally is that the more work they find for me, the more money the agency earns, and the more money they get paid. Simple.

All be it in the offshore industry.

Scruffy, what, if you don't mind me asking, do you do?

Terry

[Martin Keene]

Calm down.....agency people might be reading this and thinking "bit wild" that one...bottom draw.

Don't care anymore...

[TerryC]

Forgot to add

Martin, my industry is crying out for engineers (either mechanical, electrical, electronics, and hydraulics).

A trainee will earn £150 - £200 per day offshore in the ROV industry (Remotely Operated Vehicle)

I'm a Senior Sub. Engineer/ Supervisor and I can tell you I'm well into the 40% bracket by October in the fiscal year.

As for a pub, not on your nelly.

[markcoopers]

I spent a month off shore once, dregging mangenease nodules, to map deep water currents on the abyss floor..........Never again.

[John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison]

Now plastering "might" be a goer. Where I live there is a 5 day course offered at the local college for a small fee. If the thickos around here   who cant read and write can do it I'm pretty sure the likes of thee and me could do it  

Telephone call to college in morning....

[Mark Stanton]

John

You may jest - there's a guy I work with went on a plastering course a few years back and now earns himself quite a bit of "holiday money" at weekends         and funds his Bulgarian apartment, his bros in law went on a brick laying course and then jacked his toolmaking job and now earns far more on the trowel    

stilts are available for plastering ceilings              

[John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison]

Yes, but will it feed a Westfield habit ?  (..and a wife, 3 cats, a dog and a mortgage)

[John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison]

QUOTE

pub 200 yards up the road from me for sale, £300k (ive heard £250k will own it ) freehold, its massive, 5 bedrooms, huge restaraunt, carpark big enough to get half a dozen houses on and its  been for sale now for over a year without a sale , last four people thats rented couldnt make ends meet. thats on a busy road on a junction near to 3 decent size towns and the outskirts of a villiage  .  

Ah Jeff - the reason could be with you living so close      

[scruffythefirst]

QUOTE

Scruffy, what, if you don't mind me asking, do you do?

Offshore surveying as an engineer - deploying kit, running the computers and fixing it all when it blows up.  Last job was 2 months in indonesia, i'm in the north sea this time round, just about to have breakfast and so far this shift, i've read FHM, classic ford, been to the gym and done 2 loads of washing, and thats a busy day as were currently "on line".  

I started on a decent wage (far more than I could hope to earn as a Marine biologist, even If i had exerience), had no experience in the job, get all my tax back and the conditions are pretty good and the people are great.  I just hope we don't go back to aberdeen soon, I'm still knackered and my liver is killing me

[Norman Verona]

Aren't we all missing the point. Martin has a scratch. he wants to run a pub. If he never scratches this itch he'll probably regret it for the rest of his life.

Well run pubs with friendly staff, good food and ale do exist and make a reasonable living for the landlord. Yes, the hours are long and the work is hard but I've never known an easy job that's worthwhile.

It's up to him, he has the itch and has to decide if it's so bad he must scratch it.

Or maybe he did have one lager too many

[samcooke]

QUOTE

Offshore surveying as an engineer - deploying kit, running the computers and fixing it all when it blows up.  Last job was 2 months in indonesia, i'm in the north sea this time round, just about to have breakfast and so far this shift, i've read FHM, classic ford, been to the gym and done 2 loads of washing, and thats a busy day as were currently "on line".  

Makes you fat though.  

QUOTE

Aren't we all missing the point. Martin has a scratch. he wants to run a pub. If he never scratches this itch he'll probably regret it for the rest of his life.

Just going to say exactly the same.

Better to regret something you have done than something you haven't and all that.

I'd start by going to see Greene King in Bury to get something on a lease. You won't make fortunes, but you'll know if it's for you without commiting to hundreds of thousands in mortgage and the hassle of selling if it doesn't work out.

If you don't like it, you just don't sign another lease.

Of course, if you talk to lessee landlords they'll all tell you breweries are evil, but I'd say it's a much less risky start.

I'll have the first pint of Abbot.  

[samcooke]

Oh, yes - the real key to a successful pub is to employ some nice fit bar staff.

Then get some carefully chosen uniforms for them