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    I love being self-employed

    Annoying sort of a day so I just rang the office and said can't be arsed bye bye see you thurday


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    It's when your clients call and say they can't be that p's me off!


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    Sometimes i have driven 5 or 6 miles to their house just as they have cancelled


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    Quote Originally Posted by lestaxi1 View Post
    Sometimes i have driven 5 or 6 miles to their house just as they have cancelled
    yeh, that crap happens to me too but it all evens itself out anyway! lol!

    are you still living it up off that lotto win you had? lolz


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    its great when you can do that les but remember that £450 wont last you forever


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    \\\Tony/// could live for a year in the Philippines, on £450


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    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


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    Quote Originally Posted by James Hubbard View Post
    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
    I suppose £550 dosen't go that far? but I reckoned we could live on £100 per week? reasonably comfortably, eating out most days, no aircon. Well that's how the money worked out, over a couple of months...It's always better to have more than less though.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sim11UK View Post
    I suppose £550 dosen't go that far? but I reckoned we could live on £100 per week? reasonably comfortably, eating out most days, no aircon. Well that's how the money worked out, over a couple of months...It's always better to have more than less though.
    i thought that i could live pretty cheap though, but it didn't happen lolz ...

    hmmm

    i guess the fact that i was there during the height (or hmmm "nadir") of the recession didn't help!


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    Working hard to get back to davao in feb,also saving for new car so lotto win already swallowed up


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    Quote Originally Posted by lestaxi1 View Post
    Working hard to get back to davao in feb,also saving for new car so lotto win already swallowed up
    are you the type of cabbie who drives a Skoda Superb, or more like a Beemer guy or a Merc man?

    oh, kabalo ka mosulti ug bisaya?


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    Quote Originally Posted by lestaxi1 View Post
    Working hard to get back to davao in feb,also saving for new car so lotto win already swallowed up
    congrats for winning the lotto...have tried betting but no luck lol good though scratch card give me my money back...first time i bought it i won 5 pounds and second 2 pounds..not bad better than nothing


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    Get ready for this!I drive a peugeot 406 02 reg 302,000 miles on clock and just passed mot and taxi test


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    Quote Originally Posted by lestaxi1 View Post
    Get ready for this!I drive a peugeot 406 02 reg 302,000 miles on clock and just passed mot and taxi test
    302k miles? My gosh, u must look after it if it still passed it's MOT and PSV! gosh, how much longer do you think it'll hold out?

    Anytime I am down at the BMW showroom, the parking outside is always packed with taxis!

    The ££$$££ must be good


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    Quote Originally Posted by James Hubbard View Post
    302k miles? My gosh, u must look after it if it still passed it's MOT and PSV! gosh, how much longer do you think it'll hold out?

    Anytime I am down at the BMW showroom, the parking outside is always packed with taxis!

    The ££$$££ must be good
    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/


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    Quote Originally Posted by lestaxi1 View Post
    Annoying sort of a day so I just rang the office and said can't be arsed bye bye see you thurday
    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?


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    Quote Originally Posted by aposhark View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by lestaxi1 View Post
    ...........At the end of the day tho you have to take time off and say stuff the money
    Wise words lestaxi, I will try to follow your example......sometimes


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