[JSMC]

not a good thread for me thios one! planning on starting up  soon part time but laying out for a van and WFP diy set up. on the otehr hand nothing in life is a certainty.

only worry about what you can change. don't worry about the things you can't change.

[windowwashers]

not a good thread for me thios one! planning on starting up  soon part time but laying out for a van and WFP diy set up. on the otehr hand nothing in life is a certainty.

only worry about what you can change. don't worry about the things you can't change.

Dont waste your time worrying about things you cant control, leave that to people that have nothing better to do, have amix in work never have eggs in one basket, there are not window cleaners that have been doing it for over 30 year for nothing saying that enough said post closed  :

[rhys11]

yes

[Ian_Giles]

Headlines are Global markets plunge!

Weird isn't it?
Morons in the financial world all start selling at the same time, prices plunge as they all run around like headless chickens.
A few days ago everything is fine, then overnight they panic and they force the world into recession!
I'm not bothered though, there is nothing I can do about it, so it's pointless worrying about it.
For me it was during a really bad recession in the building industry that got me into window cleaning 25 years ago, and of course it wasn't just the recession in the building industry.
But I have picked up work when interest rates were through the roof, they were up in the mid teens at one point remember!
Major employers were closing the their doors, the mines, the steel works, the car industry, tens of thousands were being made unemployed...But my round kept growing.

Tough times ahead?
Probably, look at the price of fuel, everything is going up in price, we pay more and more tax, directly and indirectly, council tax soars above inflation every year (mine will be up over £1,600 this year).
But there is always ebb and flow, there will always be work out there, our disposable income may drop a little, but thats life.

Ian

[Neil271052]

Headlines are Global markets plunge!

Weird isn't it?
Morons in the financial world all start selling at the same time, prices plunge as they all run around like headless chickens.

I'm buying.

Valuations on some stocks are now looking very cheap.

[windowwashers]

Headlines are Global markets plunge!

Weird isn't it?
Morons in the financial world all start selling at the same time, prices plunge as they all run around like headless chickens.

I'm buying.

Valuations on some stocks are now looking very cheap.

nearly time to buy then 

[alan andrewswestsi]

please no more of this misery , get a life , positive people always do better than backward looking doom mongers , you know who you are lol

[simon knight]

Got shooed away by a customer this morning. Hubby lost his job....and I quote:

" We're only spending money on essentials..."

[Helen]

Got shooed away by a customer this morning. Hubby lost his job....and I quote:

" We're only spending money on essentials..."

Can understand what they mean but........would have been nice if they had phoned you to let you know before you turned up :

[Helen]

please no more of this misery , get a life , positive people always do better than backward looking doom mongers , you know who you are lol

We are positive in the fact that this year will probably be tougher than the last few in the world of ££££, which means that we are positively gloomy that we may have to work harder to keep our income going....... saying that we are positively knackered as we have so much work coming in and I say "at the moment", because I am quiet positive that in future months the level of new work will fall

[simon knight]

Got shooed away by a customer this morning. Hubby lost his job....and I quote:

" We're only spending money on essentials..."

Can understand what they mean but........would have been nice if they had phoned you to let you know before you turned up :

Oh well, I expect she had more important things on her mind.

[bluez]

Got shooed away by a customer this morning. Hubby lost his job....and I quote:

" We're only spending money on essentials..."

Can understand what they mean but........would have been nice if they had phoned you to let you know before you turned up :

But she couldn't use the phone as it is now a non essential, you will probably get a letter in a few days telling you not to come last week

[dai]

I'm buying.

Valuations on some stocks are now looking very cheap.

Thats not funny, I just put £36000 pension money into a shares portfolio on the 3rd January. I make it I was 4 grand down this morning. Dai

[Neil271052]

I'm buying.

Valuations on some stocks are now looking very cheap.

Thats not funny, I just put £36000 pension money into a shares portfolio on the 3rd January. I make it I was 4 grand down this morning. Dai

You mean you invested in a SIPP?

Unfortunately when putting a large amount into shares it is all about timing but if it's any consolation your previous pension would have suffered just as badly.

It's the long haul that counts. 

[Stephen_Watters]

Yes mate they are. Not just the recession. We all been making good money from our commercial work but they notice it more when things look blacker with the economy.

Then you gotta remember that with all this cheap EU labour about, lots of new WFP vans about now. Your gonna get lot of this.

Try offing 10% reduction for two year deal or summat. No loyalty these businesses. Money talks. You WILL get undercut soon mate.

Good luck

[clean]

Lost my first job today (commercial) ,first one in years and i mean years i can`t even remember last time i lost one,£100 a month gone  and it was by being undercut 

[nat]

Lost my first job today (commercial) ,first one in years and i mean years i can`t even remember last time i lost one,£100 a month gone  and it was by being undercut 

if you had it for years didn't they give you a chance to match the new company's price?

[clean]

Lost my first job today (commercial) ,first one in years and i mean years i can`t even remember last time i lost one,£100 a month gone  and it was by being undercut 

if you had it for years didn't they give you a chance to match the new company's price?

it was far too low to match 

[nat]

Lost my first job today (commercial) ,first one in years and i mean years i can`t even remember last time i lost one,£100 a month gone  and it was by being undercut 

if you had it for years didn't they give you a chance to match the new company's price?

it was far too low to match 

if they have outpriced themselves then keep in contact you may get it back 

[tonylee]

Got shooed away by a customer this morning. Hubby lost his job....and I quote:

" We're only spending money on essentials..."

Can understand what they mean but........would have been nice if they had phoned you to let you know before you turned up :

But she couldn't use the phone as it is now a non essential, you will probably get a letter in a few days telling you not to come last week

bet theres no stamp on the letter!