Quit or not to Quit Tiling, Thats the question ??

[Dave]

Originally Posted by theyomper

Had a few knocks in my time. Back in the late 80's got took for £90 grand on one job.....end result ...lost house, business, car and fairweather friends. Then in the late 90's went off on a 6 week contract and had van and all tools nicked......only two days into job.
My other half asks why I am always happy.......What more could go wrong? Always sing the good old Monty Pythons song to myself most days....' Always look on the bright side of life....etc.....etc...'
You've done the hard work in the last year so why give up now? Start thinking about past customers......were they looking for more tiling work in the future. Try Topps and ask them about being one of their Topps Approved Installer. If you start going down the Doom and Gloom slide it becomes obvious to any potential customer.......no matter how hard things appear there is always someone less fortunate than yourself.

JUST FOR YOU........

[cococay]

Things are tough but going back to the part of mts's post re fuel, yeh the government are robbing sh*ts, but remember you can claim 40p for every business mile covered, or if you go the other tax way you can claim all your business fuel receipts, car servicing, car insurance, business insurance and other stuff like that written of in your tax returns, it helps a bit also remember keep receipts for pens, paper, tools, mobile phone top ups, stuff like that, anything you use for your business. Better in your pocket than the tax mans. As we say north of the border "mony a mickle maks a muckle" Coco.

[charlie1]

I like your attitude yomper, there are not many people who would come out the other end of that and keep going, as you said there will always be someone worse off than you.

[d noulton]

when I started tiling 10 years ago was told it would take 2 years to get established probably took 3 had a big mortgage 2 young kids but was determined to see it through you have to remain positive what ever you decide to do good luck

[theyomper]

Dave......thanks for that........reminds me of my divorce, which came about after I discovered that she hadn't posted my van insurance renewal, which I found out after the van was pinched. Still smiling though.

[whitebeam]

Agree with charlie, There's not many people would have survived that theyomper