Hi Donnie
Doesnt matter what line of work you decide to go into either self employed or employment there is uncertanty and no gaurentees, if you employed your desiny lies with how good someone else is at business to keep you in a job. However with self employment you make the decisions and if there is a lack of work out there you just have to dig in deeper and look harder for it, The golf courses are full of tradesman every day saying how quiet things are and how there is no work, there is work out there but they wont find it on the golf course or in the pub and the work just wont track them down either, you have to find it the hard way, by promoting yourself more, multi skilling yourself more, making more contacts with others who could send work your way, there is loads of ways to get business in, you just have to explore them all, the ones that do the most will be in work, the ones that expect things to happen will struggle, a desire to achieve and be successfull is what a lot of peolpe lack, im not saying it is easy and everyone is capable of doing it, some people just aint got a business brain and thats what you need if your going to run a business well, people forget this bit, they think because they are a tradesman and can do a good job, thats all the skills they need, you need a lot more than that, thats why so many people fail, iv been self employed for 22 years running other businesses as well as being a tiler and running tiling businesses, ive seen a lot of people fail along the way, ive made some mistakes as well but ive learnt a lot from them
I see a lot of people come through the doors of my training centre and i spend the first two hours of the course explaining a lot about what key skills you need to be successfull, i can tell after about half an hour who has a chance of making it in business as a tiler / plasterer whatever and who is probably wasting their time and may struggle, nothing to do with the actual trade skill they will end up with.
People think that the place is flooded with tradesman because of people attending training centres, its not the case, no good having excellent tiling skills if you aint got the drive or ability to find any work or you havent got any sales or personallity skills, these can be taught and you need to rely on them all the time
The best thing to do is keep your job if you can, learn the skills then do work in your spare time or on weekends to build up your confidence and skill levels, then see if you like it then move over once you feel comfortable, trouble with this route is you go at it half heartadly because you have other job commitments, still the best option for you though
Starting any new business off is not easy and anyone that has done it will tell you it takes time to build up. I know when i took a chance 7 years ago and started the training side of the game, started off training 1 person per week then it gradually got bigger and bigger but it was still a gamble, could of easily failed but failure wasnt an option for me. i made it work.
You can only regret the things you have tried otherwise you will allways wonder what if, i would personally rather try my hardest and if it failed my mind would be at rest and move on, rather than keep thinking about it.
The reason i still teach and do the training myself is to help people achieve what they are looking for and give them a good chance of success, my tiling course is unlike any other tiling course where as you not only get taught all the tiling skills, you get everything else you need from me to give you the best shot, thats why if you read the feedback on our courses my name is mentioned a lot, people seem to respect the fact that im genuinly trying to help them
Sorry for the long post but hope this has helped you a bit, i could have come on and said get yourself on the course and youll do great and get some money in off you, i try and be honest as possible then people can make up their own mind whats best for them to do
Regards
Darren
Doesnt matter what line of work you decide to go into either self employed or employment there is uncertanty and no gaurentees, if you employed your desiny lies with how good someone else is at business to keep you in a job. However with self employment you make the decisions and if there is a lack of work out there you just have to dig in deeper and look harder for it, The golf courses are full of tradesman every day saying how quiet things are and how there is no work, there is work out there but they wont find it on the golf course or in the pub and the work just wont track them down either, you have to find it the hard way, by promoting yourself more, multi skilling yourself more, making more contacts with others who could send work your way, there is loads of ways to get business in, you just have to explore them all, the ones that do the most will be in work, the ones that expect things to happen will struggle, a desire to achieve and be successfull is what a lot of peolpe lack, im not saying it is easy and everyone is capable of doing it, some people just aint got a business brain and thats what you need if your going to run a business well, people forget this bit, they think because they are a tradesman and can do a good job, thats all the skills they need, you need a lot more than that, thats why so many people fail, iv been self employed for 22 years running other businesses as well as being a tiler and running tiling businesses, ive seen a lot of people fail along the way, ive made some mistakes as well but ive learnt a lot from them
I see a lot of people come through the doors of my training centre and i spend the first two hours of the course explaining a lot about what key skills you need to be successfull, i can tell after about half an hour who has a chance of making it in business as a tiler / plasterer whatever and who is probably wasting their time and may struggle, nothing to do with the actual trade skill they will end up with.
People think that the place is flooded with tradesman because of people attending training centres, its not the case, no good having excellent tiling skills if you aint got the drive or ability to find any work or you havent got any sales or personallity skills, these can be taught and you need to rely on them all the time
The best thing to do is keep your job if you can, learn the skills then do work in your spare time or on weekends to build up your confidence and skill levels, then see if you like it then move over once you feel comfortable, trouble with this route is you go at it half heartadly because you have other job commitments, still the best option for you though
Starting any new business off is not easy and anyone that has done it will tell you it takes time to build up. I know when i took a chance 7 years ago and started the training side of the game, started off training 1 person per week then it gradually got bigger and bigger but it was still a gamble, could of easily failed but failure wasnt an option for me. i made it work.
You can only regret the things you have tried otherwise you will allways wonder what if, i would personally rather try my hardest and if it failed my mind would be at rest and move on, rather than keep thinking about it.
The reason i still teach and do the training myself is to help people achieve what they are looking for and give them a good chance of success, my tiling course is unlike any other tiling course where as you not only get taught all the tiling skills, you get everything else you need from me to give you the best shot, thats why if you read the feedback on our courses my name is mentioned a lot, people seem to respect the fact that im genuinly trying to help them
Sorry for the long post but hope this has helped you a bit, i could have come on and said get yourself on the course and youll do great and get some money in off you, i try and be honest as possible then people can make up their own mind whats best for them to do
Regards
Darren
