Annoying sort of a day so I just rang the office and said can't be arsed bye bye see you thurday
Annoying sort of a day so I just rang the office and said can't be arsed bye bye see you thurday
It's when your clients call and say they can't be that p's me off!
Sometimes i have driven 5 or 6 miles to their house just as they have cancelled
its great when you can do that les but remember that £450 wont last you forever
\\\Tony/// could live for a year in the Philippines, on £450
When i was there living in the Philippines - in a cheap agricultural city 100 miles from Dumaguete (middle of nowhere) ...
my income from rent was £550 per month, and i was still rolling around in DEBT every month
My life is cheaper here than in the Philippines...
and it wasn't like i was a perpetual tourist or anything ... coz ... well ... me and the Mrs were homebirds ... and ... we had a couple of holidays, KL and Hong Kong, but ... nothing extravaganT!
So in a sense, for our lifestyle (a fairly lower middle class one) in the phils, we needed more than £550 per month
Working hard to get back to davao in feb,also saving for new car so lotto win already swallowed up
Get ready for this!I drive a peugeot 406 02 reg 302,000 miles on clock and just passed mot and taxi test
Yes I do look after it although it's starting to look a bit tatty now.
It has to "come off" next year as it will have reached the 9 year limit the council allows to keep a car from new
The company I work within is the largest taxi firm in harrogate,it's a shareholder company so I'm the boss (along with 83 others)
For me It's the best system as we are a large company so have lot's of muscle but also being self employed we can do pretty much as we wish.
For instance unlimited time off when we want although no pay of course.
We have most of the hotels,school contracts etc tied up too
http://www.bluelinetaxis.co.uk/
I am self-employed also lestaxi but I work too hard and my wife had to tell me I was pale and to slow down
I think this is the hardest part of working for yourself, it is great to take a month off to go the Philippines for example, but working 6 days a lot of weeks can grind you down after many months
Still, money is not much use if we are not here to enjoy it
I have never found it easy to slow down, how do you equate money versus quality of life?
What i have tried to do and succeeded to some extent is to remain self employed but work in the framework of a large taxi firm.
With me being a shareholder I have a big say and how company is run plus I get any time i want off at a moments notice.
Of course I don't get paid for it but at least it's there if I want to take it
I work hard but also am lucky that I do very little night work now maybe just saturday and an odd friday thrown in.
Luckily we have nearly all the school contracts and a lot of disabled work too which helps all tho I am shafted now for the next 6 weeks
Time to re-start the decorating for when the boss comes over
At the end of the day tho you have to take time off and say stuff the money
Totally out of the blue sometimes I just say nope not today thank you lol.
It keeps me sane (debatable)
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