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drakestar!

  • Posts: 311
Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« on: December 17, 2020, 07:01:17 am »
Our work is always increasing, but how comes we don't wanna stop taking customer's on and earning more?
When is enough, enough??

deeege

  • Posts: 5008
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2020, 07:19:34 am »
If you stopped taking on new customers, eventually you’d have no customers as the cancellations will always slowly happen.

Oh and greed and the human greed of always wanting more.
"....and it's lend me ten pounds, I'll buy you a drink, and mother wake me early in the morning."

KS Cleaning

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Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2020, 07:42:45 am »
I noticed you said ‘we’ Unless you want to keep growing and you aren’t fussed about going VAT registered, when it comes to saturation point it’s time to sell off some work, there is also more scope to refine your work, when you pick up good work ditch the dross.

Rob.Hall

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Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2020, 08:02:21 am »
Always refining round so cannot say enough is enough.
Mind you, enough is enough, if you get problem clients . They get binned 😁.

Stoots

  • Posts: 6211
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2020, 08:19:49 am »
Enough is never enough.

Unless you are a monk sat meditating in some forest with no money to his name but is blissfully happy.

The rest of the modern world will never be happy and sacrifice their enjoyment of life for the endless pursuit of money. Letting health suffer along the way.

Then when you get to your death bed you will wish you had lived like the monk.

Theres quite a simple solution to wanting more money and thats to remove or reduce your desires.

If you have no wants and needs then you have no problems and no need for money above the basics to survive.

I once spent 9 months on the dole, went fishing a lot and the gym. Money aside it was great.

֍Winp®oClean֍

  • Posts: 1688
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2020, 08:25:09 am »
I rarely take on new work now, just the odd one now and then. I probably average 4 days a week at 6 hours a day and that's where I intend to stay. My goal was to reach a good work/life balance and be happy. I achieved it.👍
I'm not one to chase after the wind.
Comfortably Numb!

Dave Willis

Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2020, 08:26:08 am »
I’ve got enough money and work thanks.

dazmond

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Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2020, 08:57:02 am »
I rarely take on new work now, just the odd one now and then. I probably average 4 days a week at 6 hours a day and that's where I intend to stay. My goal was to reach a good work/life balance and be happy. I achieved it.👍
I'm not one to chase after the wind.

I'm the same.....its a nice place to be....happy and contented most of the time....👍🙂
price higher/work harder!

NWH

  • Posts: 16952
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2020, 09:37:14 am »
Enough is never enough.

Unless you are a monk sat meditating in some forest with no money to his name but is blissfully happy.

The rest of the modern world will never be happy and sacrifice their enjoyment of life for the endless pursuit of money. Letting health suffer along the way.

Then when you get to your death bed you will wish you had lived like the monk.

Theres quite a simple solution to wanting more money and thats to remove or reduce your desires.

If you have no wants and needs then you have no problems and no need for money above the basics to survive.

I once spent 9 months on the dole, went fishing a lot and the gym. Money aside it was great.
You would have wished you lived like the Monk I like that lol I don’t think so m8,you know why they always sit with there legs crossed that’s because they are always trying for the self suck m8 🤣🤣

Scrimble

  • Posts: 2047
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2020, 10:52:48 am »
not as a sole trader no

drakestar!

  • Posts: 311
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2020, 11:10:32 am »
I’ve got enough money and work thanks.
But are you going to turn down a job well paid and next to a existing job??
Most wouldn't, easy money.

Ched

  • Posts: 441
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2020, 01:26:20 pm »
Work to live not live to work.
Balance life vs work. As long as you have enough money coming in to pay bills, have a backup emergency fund, pension plan and to enjoy life then what more do you need?

I would be surprised if anyone on their death bed said 'I wish I had worked more'   :D

Frankybadboy

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Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2020, 06:24:19 pm »
I’ve got enough money and work thanks.
But are you going to turn down a job well paid and next to a existing job??
Most wouldn't, easy money.
yep i do ,if its next to a existing job it aint going to be any higher

i just say no

dazmond

  • Posts: 23967
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2020, 06:33:50 pm »
the last few years have been the happiest ive ever been with my round/earnings and work/life balance.....now its just a case of tweaking a few prices from time to time and taking a few jobs on every so often(usually at a slightly higher price)as we all lose customers over the course of a year (usually because of moving/dying)......its a great place to be...long may it continue...... :)
price higher/work harder!

tlwcs

  • Posts: 2088
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2020, 06:36:00 pm »
I rarely take on new work now, just the odd one now and then. I probably average 4 days a week at 6 hours a day and that's where I intend to stay. My goal was to reach a good work/life balance and be happy. I achieved it.👍
I'm not one to chase after the wind.

I’m the same but looking to go down to 3 days in the next 2 years

richard connett

  • Posts: 300
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2020, 06:43:34 pm »
Keep going until you go vat registered, which you will if you run a couple of vans. Then decide if you want more hours, more staff, more bills , more agro, potentially more money eventually .....or get rid of a few. You may even find yourself running away from any potential new customers . Depends on the person I suppose

NWH

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Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2020, 10:26:31 am »
It’s always been a dossers job hence the stigma and when are you gonna get a proper job jibes,if we didn’t need the “money” 99% of people wouldn’t clean windows.

swanson

  • Posts: 602
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2020, 03:26:26 pm »
i turned down  a job today
£150 for 10 minutes work.

Ched

  • Posts: 441
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #18 on: December 18, 2020, 03:39:40 pm »
i turned down  a job today
£150 for 10 minutes work.
Slightly afraid to ask what the job was  :)

swanson

  • Posts: 602
Re: Can you ever earn and have enough work 🤔
« Reply #19 on: December 18, 2020, 03:50:55 pm »
Repairing a industrial drainpipe 6 metres high in the poring rain.
sometimes you just have to say no