Finished Course - Go Solo or Shadow?

[Perry]

i have trained quite a few over the years some siht on you some are honest very few mind you but i still have faith in human nature and give most of them a chance still :gullible :lol:

 

[GazTech]

Gaz

No offence intended...

It's Just a headbanger! My reasons not wishing to jump in feet first after a 6 weeker is that I'm after a Career change like most. So, in 6 weeks, YES! you'll take on plenty, but I'd like to take on more with some experience of a fuller scope, build up the confidence, come across encounters in an everyday environment. I work in a Digital Studio not surrounded by Trades & Industry...

I guess it's hard to put across, but all I was asking without offending was for suggestions to the possibility of gaining experience before I take a leap from my job. If that ends up as Whitebeam states 'helping out on site another tiler' then that'd be what I'm after...not take another Tiler for a ride then disappear with his contacts...

Donvalley...I think this is as 'Honourable' M'Lord as I can Post in words...

You have said nothing to offend me Claret..I love your outlook and wish you all the best...I only wanted to point out the harsh reality of todays market. Only go solo when you are convinced you can make it work financially better than what you are doing now.......Gaz:yes:

 

[brian c]

Best piece of advice i can give you is that you need to keep promoting yourself when working self employed and not sitting around waiting for the phone to ring.

 

[TheWrightTiler]

although i wouldnt train a new tiler id be there for advice as long as he or she was a registered member of this forum, as for passing on work, i have a list of 6 tilers in my locality who i would be happy to pass work onto and vice versa if we are busy, at the end of the day its the customer who must be served first, without them we aint got jack ****.

i only use the ones i know as i can vouch for their work standards and as we all have agreed to sing from the same hymn book re prices and prep work, i know i can quote a job and if the dates dont agree, i can pass the details on and the price is the same for the customer.

unfortunately it is a case of who you know now

i laid a floor for a sparky and now he does my ufh connections free as i agreed a deal with him that any other spark work i find id pass to him, suits us both as his connection takes 5 mins and always does after his own work

also for plumbers, get to know them and they will pass work on for you if your work is good, again, i know a plumber who removes sanitary ware for me free cos i pass plumbing work onto him and vice versa



andy

 

[GazTech]

Fantastic stuff Andy....you have a great co - opertive going there, you scratch my back and I will scratch yours.....Gaz

 

[IvegotsTILE]

Andy well done you jammy git,can't see the plumbers and sparkys I work with doing that.
Claret you make a fair point its just that its hard to keep the work rolling in,on the Topps christmas doo the staff only invited out me and another tiler with them,I had already been out for a few drinks with him with my cousins boss who he does work for.He phoned me up today with a job he's got too much on and is now going to pass me all the jobs he can't do.
I couldn't quite believe it,told one of the lads at topps when I went in and they said they've told him my work is good and the tiler had told him he appreciated the fact that I hadn't tried to steal the work off him from my cousins boss.
I believe in treating people the way I'd like to be treated,seems like its paying off.:hurray:

 

[Falcone]

I was looking to shadow a friend who's a tiler, he said I could and he'd be happy to help me out. He just got a job with a construction company out of town so it won't be happening now.

...So I'm just gonna throw myself in at the deep end, take the things I learned at NETT and take advice from the superb help on this site to get me through working on my own.

within about 6 months of tiling I reckon I'll have covered the most common aspects of tiling and after that things will get easier. Problems will come and go and I'll learn with every job, not to mention gaining speed on a job.

looking forward to it aswell