Not January blues Dazmond i have felt like it a couple of years now lost my mojo I would give it all up tomorrow if I had the chance and as for online banking I'm sick off chasing customers for payment that's why I would prefer door knocking and also some of my long time customers that always tipped at Christmas since paying through bank don't tip anymore
I have just recently been through my 3rd 'wall' of wanting to pack it all in.
Now im back focused on my task in hand to push my business to 80k in 15months.
I got so sick of the work that i decided to go back to engineering one day a week at my fathers engineering business.
That was an eye opener. Just how difficult and expensive it is to make the business work. We are still trading but you know we need alot of investment in extra cnc mils and lathes probably another 90k. As it is we charge around £35 per hour for machining time, and we are not the cheapest either. We are up against larger companies quoting much lower rates, just to get the volume through, and suppliers not understanding what engineering is, and want the cheapest price, at the fastest delivery, with the longest payment terms. Stupid high costs for materials..etc the list goes on.
Window cleaning is boring, but it's so much easier to make a living from it. Engineering can be boring too when you have 2000 parts to machine and repeat the same operations over and over again barely making £20 an hour ( for the business not including staff) so whats the difference? Its a job after all.