Originally Posted by Stu @ M Developments
Be FULLY awarte of the overheads involved. Dont let anyone paint you a stupid picture of how its all rosy.
Overheads are massively trade dependant, for example, a Painter and Decorator or bricklayer may have only a few hundred a month to pay out, where as someone in a bespoke trade doing something unusual may have £10K per month due to teh advertisng required to get tha same amount of work as the bricky per week.
Do lots of research and take advice only from people qualified to give it. far to many NON self employed people telling folk to go for it when they havent a fooking clue what they are talking about!
Yes, some people dont realise how much you can spend in a month its scary.
We get various trades arguing with is all the time about prices etc and they dont believe me when i tell them they are actually on a bigger wage then i fooking am
Just because a job is so many thousands of pounds they dont realise how much you spend...just cos they are labour only they think all the other money is profit