I need a fill-in between contracts

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The Wikir Man replied

13 April 2010, 20:46
Originally posted by lukemg View Post

Anyone got any ideas/suggestions/something you do ?

Sockpuppet is a trucker in his spare time.

Or a project manager in his spare time and a trucker as his main job - can never remember which way round it is.
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The Wikir Man replied

13 April 2010, 20:45
Originally posted by kaiser78 View Post

Interesting fact (I think)...both companies were set up by two brothers who fell out with each other and wanted to show who could be the more successful. BBT

According to "Sneaker Wars", they fell out because of a throwaway comment from Adi:

One night in the early 1940s, as Allied forces rained explosives on Bavarian soil, the shoe- making brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler, both married and in their 40s, took to the cellar with their families for refuge. "Here are the bloody bastards again," Adi reportedly snapped. Rudi believed the invective was aimed at him and his family. Adi insisted that he was referring to the planes above.
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kaiser78 replied

13 April 2010, 20:24
Originally posted by lukemg View Post

Ahh, of course, I believe Adidas and Puma were in the same predicament at one stage...

Interesting fact (I think)...both companies were set up by two brothers who fell out with each other and wanted to show who could be the more successful. BBT
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northernladuk replied

13 April 2010, 15:26
Originally posted by lukemg View Post

Ahh, of course, I believe Adidas and Puma were in the same predicament at one stage...

Exactly!!! You have to be careful... Once I was talking about this very same thing to an Austrian guy and I said I wanted to make a drink to wake people up and call it Blue Tiger. Put it in smaller tins and stuff...

Anyway.. back down to the dole office for me this aft....
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lukemg replied

13 April 2010, 14:36
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

Yeah but when we go global we are going to be head to head!! Think big baby

Ahh, of course, I believe Adidas and Puma were in the same predicament at one stage...
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northernladuk replied

13 April 2010, 14:14
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

You know all those signs and stickers you see "work from home, make £30/hr" all over the place?

Get a job posting them.

Thats only the first step to posting 'GOURANGA' in the most difficult spots to get at on Motorway bridges though...
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d000hg replied

13 April 2010, 14:06
Originally posted by lukemg View Post

Anyone got any ideas/suggestions/something you do ?

You know all those signs and stickers you see "work from home, make £30/hr" all over the place?

Get a job posting them.
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northernladuk replied

13 April 2010, 13:05
Originally posted by lukemg View Post

Yeah, it's almost certain I would be a direct competitor in the same location and at the same time...

Yeah but when we go global we are going to be head to head!! Think big baby
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lukemg replied

13 April 2010, 13:03
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

Shelling out 30 grand for a car to run as an occasional business is going to be hard to justify. I would think you need to run a premium service for that to work and running it when you are out of contract is hardly a premium service. All in favour of going upmarket when doing things but that one doesn't strike me as an easy win.

I would tell you what I do between contracts..... but that would be pretty stupid of me wouldn't it

Yeah, it's almost certain I would be a direct competitor in the same location and at the same time...
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AngelOfTheNorth replied

13 April 2010, 11:06
Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

Didn't you actually post something useful and/or interesting once? Or was that in a previous incarnation?

Is Tax Deductions not entirely relevant to a contractors forum??
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northernladuk replied

13 April 2010, 11:05
Originally posted by AngelOfTheNorth View Post

Lube is tax deductable that way.

Didn't you actually post something useful and/or interesting once? Or was that in a previous incarnation?
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AngelOfTheNorth replied

13 April 2010, 11:03
Originally posted by Mehmeh View Post

Gay escort?
Gotta pay those bills

Lube is tax deductable that way.
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Mehmeh replied

13 April 2010, 11:03
Gay escort?
Gotta pay those bills
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northernladuk replied

13 April 2010, 11:02
Originally posted by lukemg View Post

Getting fairly regular contract work but often out for a few months between roles, partly due to location restrictions. These are rarely the 'welcome break' they should be, tend to be in winter, are tainted by not knowing if/when the next job will turn up.
I could do with a back-up job to keep me ticking over, something I can do part/full time to keep me occupied. Keeping the meter ticking over is fine but it's not really the money, I want to keep semi-busy. Need to be able to pick it up/drop it when the time comes.
I was thinking maybe getting a 7-series/s-class and doing some businessman ferrying about/airport runs, not desperate to do mini-cabbing, you tend to be chasing your settlement each week + too many nutters.
Anyone got any ideas/suggestions/something you do ?

Shelling out 30 grand for a car to run as an occasional business is going to be hard to justify. I would think you need to run a premium service for that to work and running it when you are out of contract is hardly a premium service. All in favour of going upmarket when doing things but that one doesn't strike me as an easy win.

I would tell you what I do between contracts..... but that would be pretty stupid of me wouldn't it
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lukemg started a topic I need a fill-in between contracts

13 April 2010, 10:17
I need a fill-in between contracts

Getting fairly regular contract work but often out for a few months between roles, partly due to location restrictions. These are rarely the 'welcome break' they should be, tend to be in winter, are tainted by not knowing if/when the next job will turn up.
I could do with a back-up job to keep me ticking over, something I can do part/full time to keep me occupied. Keeping the meter ticking over is fine but it's not really the money, I want to keep semi-busy. Need to be able to pick it up/drop it when the time comes.
I was thinking maybe getting a 7-series/s-class and doing some businessman ferrying about/airport runs, not desperate to do mini-cabbing, you tend to be chasing your settlement each week + too many nutters.
Anyone got any ideas/suggestions/something you do ?
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