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ken69

Joined: 17 Jul 2005
Posts: 316
Location: Norfolk

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 07 3:05 pm Post subject:
Hi Jema.......20 years gardening self employed, now retired, enjoyed evry minute, learning to cope, making my own decisions, enjoying the customers. Previous to that 30 years working for someone else, auditing, mind boggingly ( is there such a word) BORING, occasionally relieved by finding a fiddle. Good fortune to anyone working for themselves.

franco

Joined: 05 Nov 2004
Posts: 113
Location: Bolton, Lancashire

Posted: Fri Aug 10, 07 7:07 pm Post subject:
May 1989, a week after my 'A' levels finished Franco

VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 07 6:10 pm Post subject:
Always Since leaving agricultural college in 1994 we are in the fortunate posistion of never having been employed (self employed contracts initially). Doubly lucky in that we have not had to downsize as we never went up in the first place - crawling along in first gear seems to suit us (financiallt bottom gear that is - time is exceedingly precious). www.viableselfsufficiency.co.uk

kaz

Joined: 09 Sep 2006
Posts: 189

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 07 4:08 pm Post subject:
Since April 1994 and I can't imagine ever being able to go back to work for a health authority again The thing that shocks me is not the time that I have been self-employed but the fact that I've been doing the same job (physiotherapy) for 27 years now There doesn't seem to be such a thing as a job for life now and youngsters seem to stick with a job for 2-3 years and then move on.

dottyspots

Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 286
Location: South Yorks

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 07 6:27 pm Post subject:
7 years on and off

bodran

Joined: 07 May 2007
Posts: 18
Location: North Wales.

Posted: Tue Aug 28, 07 5:26 pm Post subject:
22yrs gawd time fly's .

SarahB

Joined: 09 Sep 2007
Posts: 869
Location: South Wales

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 07 12:31 pm Post subject:
5 years nearly - and the business has evolved and changed beyond recognition in that time. All apart from the name. Can I mention the business on here? Sarah

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45508
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 07 12:36 pm Post subject:

Soapnutter wrote:

Can I mention the business on here?

Sarah

Yes

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28160
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 07 1:01 pm Post subject:
One of the premises this site was started on was that people should be allowed, well more to the point positively cajoled into pushing their businesses

dottyspots

Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Posts: 286
Location: South Yorks

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 07 7:51 pm Post subject:
Oh hello Sarah - told you you'd like it on here

Tittch

Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 1768
Location: Chichester

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 07 3:29 pm Post subject:
Completely, since about 1999/2000, can't remember exactly. I wouldn't want to work for anyone else again. I like being my own boss!

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 07 6:30 pm Post subject:

Since Easter 1999 when a b***** boss made my life hell. OH insisted I left for the sanity of both of us, suggested I took some time off and could then start looking for a job. As it turned out many of the schools I had previously worked with contined to employ me directly rather than through my old job so self-employed I became. Now (plus 2 kids) we have moved to France to start our new venture - creating and running eco-gites. Have a look at www.eco-gites.eu if you are interested

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