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Mudlark:
I got fobbed off quite a few times by bank managers

On one occasion I remember quite well the 'so called business manager' told me the idea I had, a rental business, would not work as the items I was proposing to rent "would never take off" :roll:  :roll:




This was back in the early 80s and the business was video rental :roll:  :roll:


Bank managers have killed numerous businesses in the uk through lack of market intelligence (brains)

Timi:

--- Quote from: "smo" ---I'm bored too, cept i'm only 25, dont have a missus anymore and dont drink :(
--- End quote ---


I'm bored 27, don't have missus but am drinking! another gin please!

drmike:
Don't get me started on banks! As was said they have stiffled so much potential. Why anyone thinks a jobsworth employed by a bank has any idea what it's like to start and run a business is beyond me.

Look at the way banks are run, they just make the rules up as they go along and dip into your cash as and when they want to with spurious charges etc.

Then we are meant to think 'I need some sound advice about my innovative idea, I'll pop along and see my bank!'

The best advice I got was when I started as self employed 20 odd years ago was from a disgruntled bank manager whose branch was being closed - don't borrow money from a bank! Basically he said avoid debt like the plague especially borrowing from a bank who will ALWAYS want your house as surety.

I added to that - never employ staff if you can humanly avoid it! BTDT and it wasn't pretty - my fault I accept but still not much fun and now far worse with all the 'rights' employees have that just make it ever harder for a small business to turn in a profit.

And if you don't enjoy your self employed work well move on! You're in control - reinvent yourself!

Mike

V8MoneyPit:
Well, I'm back at work so I'm not bored.... which conveniently links to another comment in this thread......

If you do get the chance to work for yourself, go for it. It's fair to say that it's not for everyone. But if you don't mind living on the breadline for a few years and working all the hours under the sun (and most of them under the moon too!) you will not regret it. I don't think I could ever work for someone else again. Or at least, I would find it very difficult. We have now been in business for 13 years and I'm earning more than I was at Lotus as a design engineer. It's taken a long time, but I wouldn't change it.

p4203:
i am 43 and just packed my job in after 11 years working in a office/warehouse to retrain as a plumber start on the 3rd of jan poor money for a year or so but it's the future i am thinking of for my son etc :D

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