[Pope vader]

i have no idea matt,  think its just a phase,  sometimes find this job very boring,  too much other crap going on

[Helen]

i have no idea matt,  think its just a phase,  sometimes find this job very boring,  too much other crap going on

What job isn't boring from time to time?

I think on another thread you said you were having 2.5 weeks off over the Christmas period?
You can recouperate in that time........if  you were employed I doubt you would get this time off

[dazmond]

Window cleaning can be boring especially if you work full time.cant you just do a 4 day week and start at 9am and finish at 3 or 4pm?

I don't need an employee to get me motivated I can do that myself!bills to pay and the fact I like making money!also I like bein out in the fresh air and seeing my customers.

Don't be a fool and resort to a partnership!trust me it won't make it any better!

Maybe your just suffering from a bit of low motivation!take a few days off!always works for me!

[mathewl]

If he ready to invest money in the business then definitely partner. Otherwise Employ.

[Pope vader]

cheers guys,  think i am going to go out knocking today,  whilst the strike is on,  get the work do and then have a rest over xmas

[AuRavelling79]

What ever you do, DO NOT have him as a business partner.

Apart from the tax complications, it'll never work in the long run. It'll come down to who dominates. Up untill that point things will be fine but in the end, one partner will try to dominate the other and thats when the friction starts. I've been down that path twice and you'd have thought I'd have learnt from the first time.

One thriving successfull business down the pan and one that had real promise both gone up in smoke.

The end question which will blow the business apart will be ' who's business is it? Believe me, it will come down to that after loads of silent and unspoken differences of opinion of how it should all be run and who does the most work.

But.... it'll all be rosy for maybe the first few years. You'll be good friends, have good ideas, drinks on a Friday night etc but underneath it all...... I look back and now think it was all there right at the start but I didn't see it.

Do it as the boss or not at all.

What Ross said - especially the bit in red - in a previous life - office equipment - there were four of us then three cuz we fired one for having his hand in the till. One of the three was a really nice guy who was incompetant the other two of us wanted to take the business in different directions. It was hell for about two years (tied in with loans etc) and in the end I resigned after eight years. My house was still supporting the company bank loans for 18 months after I left! 

I do admit a slight "non-zen, non-christian" feeling of grim satisfaction of learning that the business had gone into receivership two years later.

Anyway - like I said EMPLOY!

[bobby p]

id say take him on just a few days plus take on another lad for the rest. that way theyll both be fresh to do their work,  also neither will try to get dominant because being parttime they wont know the whole story .  one of my lads is a dominant and i bet dollars- to -donuts he would try to lever himself into the cushy jobs but he cant,not with being parttime .

[Londoner]

NEVER EVER take on a business partner, and certainly not because you are bored. Worse than a bad marriage espescially when it goes wrong.

[russ_clark]

employ employ employ
I say again employ!

[Helen]

NEVER EVER take on a business partner, and certainly not because you are bored. Worse than a bad marriage espescially when it goes wrong.

  but so true