If it's what you want,do it!!!it's always a handy skill to have,you probably won't earn a fortune from it but you'll be able to make a good bit of cash on the side and build up your rep from there.and danny,totally understand the vodka bit,I tried putting a post up after I'd been invited to a pre season friendly where I only had a few......woke up at 3am to the sound of my I phone dropping on the floor!!!! You've hit the nail on the head really though danny,it's all about reputation and word of mouth,something we've built up nicely over the last 6 or 7 months after unfortunaley getting a bad rep the first 6 for silly things.when I let the first guy go after 6 months(do the math as the yanks say!!),he went round telling anyone who'd listen not too take their cars too us as the work coming out was so poor he had to leave,total bullshit but it sticks,we literally lost our so called customer base overnight.

Took a while,but I built the rep back up with getting cars out on time,sticking to prices etc and it's been good the last half of the year,no comebacks and plenty of repeat work but overheads have killed me off so the boy who works for me now is going to start up himself in a cheaper unit and do a lot more of his own stuff.he's only 19 himself but I can hand on heart say he's the most meticulous painters I've ever seen. Considering we've not got a top notch paintbooth the results are amazing,his prep work is just mindblowing,never any overspray etc.I'll post some of the work up on here if I can get a better camera as I'm only on crappy iPhone camera!!!!