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vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#858068
L469 wrote:thanks happydaze don't want to sound ungrateful i feel better for putting my thoughts out
plenty of people doing it alot tougher . i would never consider moving away from oz
have alot of relatives in the uk
governments have a lot to answer for👍
I know exactly how you feel. I was feeling like this too not too long ago until I got extremely lucky and got my foot in the door to a dream job.

I am extremely lucky as I had no job experience prior to my lucky break. But someone (my boss) said hey you want to try this kind of work?

Hang in there someone will give you that job you deserve.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

LOWBUG Insano Dub Head

738 posts · joined Jul 2003 ·

#858092
This is an interesting thread, it would be interesting to see some of you own and run a buisness with employee's and be competitive with your pricing and pay all the necesary bills asociated with running a buisness. Its tough all round these days.

L469 Officially Full-On Dubber

288 posts · joined Mar 2010 ·

#858113
shokwave2 wrote:I'm not losing my job, but currently looking for a new one. My job sucks dogs b@!!$ and i'm on a really low wage. There are plenty of jobs out there,and people are just getting too picky when it comes to finding a job when the really need it. If i was at risk of losing my house or my family living out of a car, i would shovel elephant crap at the circus just to get by. It's ok to be picky while you have a current job but when the going gets tough you gotta take when you can get. Which is why i'm where i'm at. It could be worse.
running a business is like shovelling elephant crap
were you pay to shovel it alot of the time
when you have a trade that you committed time and effort into it would be nice to see some money come your way .no holiday pay sick pay and who works when you are sick or injured ? picky i think not🤓

tweety Wolfsburg Wizard

460 posts · joined Feb 2011 ·

#858114
I own my own business. Two employees, me and my wife. My wife does the bookeeping and I do the hands on and travel southern NSW and northern Victoria. I work in the insurance game.

I have a few gripes and I think they are fair ones.

1/ Some prick many years ago came up with outsoucing. Paying sub contractors like me a higher hourly rate to do the same job. Sounds great- not so. I've got a broken leg- did it 3 weeks ago and 4 more weeks before I can walk (limp). My wife has to drive me around whereever I work. In fact I was working two days after I broke it!! I did it in the driveway so no workers comp, no sick leave.....no income if I dont sit in the car!!

Travel is partially paid. When I get home I'm on the computer for between 1-3 hours. not paid. when I do things like renewing licenses for business reasons- not paid. and on and on it goes.

2/ When travel allowance is paid it is paid on a rate of VIC RACV medium petrol car rate say $0.80 cents a km. it is actually 85 cents but lately the middle man, the large companies that provide me work want more profit...so they cut our travel rate. You complain they pick some other guy to do the work. So best thing to do is buy a new diesel car as I did 3 years ago a Hyundai i30. great car. at 5.5 ltrs/100kms. its the cream of my business. but is it? After 3 years its done 200,000kms and is to any potential buyer- worthless. being a diesel it has many a km left in it though and was a good move.

3/ If my workload falls I'm in trouble. In 2004 I returned to a previous workplace at Puckapunyal to work security. I pushed myself to do static guard work at 6 degrees below zero or 50 degrees off the bitumen in summer. No union would get my membership when they allow that to happen. The Army wouldnt allow shelter as they had their budjets. the company contracted didnt want to sped money on buildings it didnt own. I lasted 8 months and got work again for my business. My gripe here is (and apologies to any farmers it isnt personal) in the shepparton area a few years ago they had a late frost. Bracks (premier) attended throwing interest free laons at the orchardists. Recently those receipients "got it" when they announced maybe it wasnt a good idea growing vulnerable crops in such an areas. I am a businessman- I do get these offers to help me out when times are tough. Its too selective.

4/ I was unemployed for 3 years once. 1992-1995. Retrenched by telecom. I was there only 3 years. I lived then at Yea Vic...too far to travel to the city and no real large city nearby for work (except Puckapunyal in 1995 where I got work) While I was on the dole I had 2 small kids and my wife to fooed and a old run down house and mortgage...and an old Zephyr car.





But I improvised. Used my skills to build cubby houses for xmas deliveries.




Sold them for $600 each with $450 profit each. about 12-16 every xmas and say 4 during the year. I mowed lawns.

I utilised my old ride on mower to build a train



I even tried clowning YOBBO



materials cost me $800 mainly pine lining boards and wheels and paint. I earned $400 a day when it was in shows in country towns. Of course I lost the dole as I struggled to make my businesses profitable but it worked.

There were times when I nearly chucked life in. Like when mowing lawns and I had a roughly made sign on the rear of my trailer "lawns mowed ph" and a copper booked me for not having the trailer registered as you should when running a business. It was 3 weeks before xmas and that fine meant a lot of work to make up for it.

I feel sorry for those that have lost their job. I sound engative but that was then. I realise now that it was having the right "never say die" attitude that got me through. and thats my only advice. When you get rejected- double your effort and never never never ....give up!
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My ex girlfriend said "its me or a trike". Her big mistake.

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#858131
That last statement is a powerful one and it applies to everything.

Its what I have to do to keep me strong for what I am about to do. I may explain latter, it depends if it turns out good or I take another blow.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

L469 Officially Full-On Dubber

288 posts · joined Mar 2010 ·

#858144
go vlad buy the red nose🙄

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#858145
urh?..... ok then?

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

tweety Wolfsburg Wizard

460 posts · joined Feb 2011 ·

#858219
Once a Vietnaese boat refugee visited the factory I was working asking for work. Every Thursday on the knocker 10am. After 4 months still out of work he was rejected again. On the way out he asked my boss if he could wash his car. He gave the refugee $10 to do it. An hour went by and the boss went to look and saw the fellow had washed every car in the car park about 14 of them....even a visiting salesman's car was shiny. He was immediately employed and got my position when I left.

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities.

I am going on a bit but as a final example I mentioned I mowed lawns in Yea. Prior to embarking on that business I surveyed half of the towns residents...to see if they would contract me to cut their grass. I returned home to my then wife to tell her that not one resident wanted my services. Her reply "well that's the end of that idea". "Not so" was my asnwer "I'm going to start the business up anyway. Such was my positivity. I dropped flyer in every letterbox. Within 4 weeks I had 12 clients mostly shop owners, real estate agents with rental properties and the like.

Being positive is an art. It requires a different mindset. It means a mindset so strong you wont ALLOW negative thoughts/attitudes/events to enter.


Consolidate yourself (pull back, regroup) and good luck.
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SUBARU ea81, VW auto, Detour camper
My ex girlfriend said "its me or a trike". Her big mistake.

shokwave2 Officially Full-On Dubber

289 posts · joined Mar 2010 ·

#858223
L469 wrote:
shokwave2 wrote:I'm not losing my job, but currently looking for a new one. My job sucks dogs b@!!$ and i'm on a really low wage. There are plenty of jobs out there,and people are just getting too picky when it comes to finding a job when the really need it. If i was at risk of losing my house or my family living out of a car, i would shovel elephant crap at the circus just to get by. It's ok to be picky while you have a current job but when the going gets tough you gotta take when you can get. Which is why i'm where i'm at. It could be worse.
running a business is like shovelling elephant crap
were you pay to shovel it alot of the time
when you have a trade that you committed time and effort into it would be nice to see some money come your way .no holiday pay sick pay and who works when you are sick or injured ? picky i think not🤓
My wife has owned her own business for about 5 years and 9 out of 10 weeks she's lucky to bring home $100. I told her to never buy it but she really wanted to. She's put so much money into it and never sees a return.

My crappy wage of $18 an hour (gross) has to try and pay for rent ($375 a week), fuel ($100 a week), bills, food, clothing, school needs for our 2 daughters, and baby needs for our 8 week old boy. We've been struggling for years but i'll take any job that will help make life a bit more comfortable for my family.

My wife had planned on taking 3 months off maternity leave but had to go back to work 2 weeks later becuase the business wasn losing money and her workers were calling in sick. She whinges that we have no money, so i tell her to sell her business and get a regular job so she actually gets paid to work.

Sometimes you have to cut your losses and move on.

matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 ·

#858227
Great post Tweety, both stories are perfect examples of getting off your ass and doing what it takes to get the job done, be that getting a job somewhere that you can see youself working or generating a clientelle/business in a field that your capable of, whatever it is, it will generally lead to where you want it to take you.

Since my trade apprenticeship that I started after graduating high school, I have been self employed, thats now 30 years, and it's alot of hard work. But it's been my choice. It occasionally provides flexibility when you need it, but really just means you have many different bosses, your customers. Treat them how you want to be treated and usually things go well.
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grumble Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,672 posts · joined Jun 2008 ·

#858307
HappyDaze wrote:Hang in there,L469.👍 You have almost exactly described my last 50 or so years! Add working 7 day weeks, and all-nighters, the kids wondering who you are, wife working,etc. Then, when you finally start to get ahead, [after ruining your back, lopping off a few fingers etc.], everyone says "Gee, aren't they lucky"🙄

This is still the best place in the world, despite the idiots who seem to want to ruin it.

Cheers, Greg
You got it Greg "The harder you work the luckier you get" is how a lot of people look at you when you work for yourself,not allowing for the toll on the body and when you do finish they reckon you made a fortune. Unfortuntely a lot of the time we just can't do some of the things we should have done whilst we were able bodied due to work injuries..
Cheers Les