Redstone reincarnated ?

[cojak]

I suspect most of the folks who sign up to these schemes are newbies and while we should be educating them we don't need to be so derogatory about it.

• My first contract was with a standard umbrella who I didn't have a great experience with.
• My second with my with the current Ltd. I didn't have a great experience as I registered the company at my home over the border but had since migrated south with no set address.
• Third contract with was a scheme as I met a guy who'd told me there was an easier legit way to earn about the same.

Obviously I'm a bit of a gullible idiot but I'd did the math, realised I'd come out about even with a ton of less effort, fell for the sales patter and signed up and went about my business. Only really being half an idiot I've signed up here and started reading and realised I'm not on amazing ground and went back to using my Ltd.

If I could go back I'd have used the Ltd from the start, but a fool I am and I did what I did. The main difference between me and you guys who used schemes in 2008 is I started contracting in like 2013.

Not believing sales patter, due diligence and a bit of googling will bring up a lot of what people need to know.

We understand ordinary permies not to be aware as they have this stuff done for them, but the naivety and gullibility that often stems from greed, from people who are supposed to be intelligent self-reliant self-employed never ceases to depress us.

[fool]

Not believing sales patter, due diligence and a bit of googling will bring up a lot of what people need to know.

We understand ordinary permies not to be aware as they have this stuff done for them, but the naivety and gullibility that often stems from greed, from people who are supposed to be intelligent self-reliant self-employed never ceases to depress us.

I understand that but one should also understand that this the majority of those taken in by this, like myself, were recently permies and simply don't know better.

Either way, falling for this crap in 2008 isn't much different from falling for it in 2016.

[DonkeyRhubarb]

the naivety and gullibility that often stems from greed

Without this, our capitalist/consumerist economy would collapse.

I live a very modest life these days but I'm eternally grateful to the greedy, indebted, majority for keeping the plates spinning.