From the moment i left school it was decided that i would go into the family busines that my father set up when he left the police in the 1960s he ran a firm of private investigators for over 35 years i spent over 20 years in this line of work.
When he retired i was working alongside my step brother, to cut a long story short we rarely saw eye to eye, the work involved unsociable hours so i was rarely at home with the family, the type of work, which included commercial debt recovery, process serving ( serving court documents) and surveillance it could be exciting at times but they were few and far between, the last job i did was for the local child protection services, basically sitting in the back of a van for 12 hour shifts pi..ing in a bottle and watching a front door, the object of the job was that a suspected paedophile ( the father) was supected of visiting his kids. jobs like this were a huge responsibilty, the consequenc's of missing something were dire.
Anyway many factors made the job so stressful that i was hospitalised for 5 days with pheumonia i also had a bit of a breakdown, during which i did not receive any wage from my stepbrother
i took a couple of weeks off and went back to work but during my time off i found you guys and a light at the end of the tunnel, i did the NCCA training got a loan 18 months ago and started my business shortly after walking out of a job i had done since i left school.
Its not been easy but a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders because i have control of my life at last,my job fits in around what i want to do, if i want to spend time with my family i do, i am no Richard Branson i dont want a carpet cleaning empire with 20 plus truckmounts just a small successful business which i am well on the way to achieving, its a good job i no longer meet the dregs of society , but people i choose to work for and earn good money too
without this forum and you guys i dread to think where i would be now.