Lee Reynolds

ya know it tiff

Hows business going pal?

TIFF

Lee

Going VERY VERY well mate.....just bagged a huge barn conversion for a building firm that only do them. This one will be worth about 3million when finished

Im in with about 4 different builders aswell so it is going well.......

All in all............loving it..............................But i still earn fuck all, just scraping by, you know how it is

Lee Reynolds

Nice one mate! Reason i ask is everyone i speak to seem shocked when i tell them we are booked up and busy as fook! Word is loads of small builders have gone under and loads of self employed are out of work...but we are pulled out with it!

Wondered if it was same down there!

TIFF

It has been a little slow over the past 2 months but i think it is picking up alot now............ well, it is for me.

Lee Reynolds

Seems to be having a knock on effect up here. My mate whos a hgv driver is struggling for work at mo...

Shandy-Ade

Same as

bud-weis

i don't earn anywhere near £1k a week

i'm in a steady job though, ok money ( i own my own house and do all of the stuff i like doing ).

i have to agree with some of the comments above though? why waste money on shite old cars when you earn so much cash?

Christian and Beccy

iTrader: (14)

I think there are 2 significant groups of people on PF.

Group 1 - Those that LOVE Fords and will have Ford running through their veins until the day they die.

Group 2 - Those that have a Ford because its cheap fun.

I'm in Group 2.

I take no moral pleasure or increased status from the fact that I drive a Mk4 Escort at 33 years of age. I have it because it's fast as fuck and thats it.

Sorry to go off-topic slightly.

I just can't see how, if you were earning £4000 per month, you would only pitch your sights on a Ford? They are generally unreliable and arean't actually that good in terms of performance and handling.

BriB

I manage a £35M construction project; are self employed, earn £500 a day, 7 days a week. Have done this for 7 years without a reasonable break, yes I am a tight git!!

Brian

joel_winders

my boss handed his notice in at my place and has got a job for 62k a year tax free and £750 a month living allowance, being a QS in Russia... he's only 28 as well the git !

so his wage AFTER tax will be £1478.50 inc living expenses !

bud-weis

He might not like it though!

I could go and earn much more money over in South Africa if i wanted, tax free too...but i just don't think i'd enjoy it out there

joel_winders

yer hear what your saying but he's 28 (youngish) single and very ugly so think he'll fit in well over there !

Ginge !

tbh im earning more than i did 3 years ago, 3 years ago i was running 2 cars adn these days ive got a old shitter worth under a grand and i cant be arsed to buy another car and waste my cash on it when theres other things i can waste my cash on

i take home under 2k a month and have a VERY low out goings, go no debts but still aint got a flashy motor

but i go out alot and enjoy life/spoil my kid

every second friday for the last few months ive spent over 200 quid on the piss,,,,,,, when i owned a cossie i never went out on the piss with mates due to spending on the car

wonder what id rather do

bud-weis

BIG WULL

iTrader: (5)

I fooking wish!!!!!!
How many hours for that kinda dough??
I must be in the wrong trade, any jobs going...

Mr S1

iTrader: (2)

I spent 7 years working in the City, I earned some serious money during that time. Upshot was I got pissed off with the travelling, pissed off with the bureaucracy and red tape so I jacked.

I still earn very good money now still but have a far better lifestyle in as much as I don't spend most waking hours at work and don't have anywhere near as much aggro.

Lee Reynolds

im in group one! Like i say dunno why, just from being really young ive loved fords...old ones not new ones i can take any car new they are all the same!

I just dont get the status thing that people judge people on with their car. I own a 07 renault traffic van bought brand new, an Audi A3 S line 170 TDi 07 plate bought 5 months old and the RSi. I have got 45k worth of vehicles there but if i drove the RSI somewhere folk would think i was poor and thats all i could afford the way some people talk on here! then round the corner from me a guy lives in an ex council house with a 911 on the drive...so he'll get the opposite judgement

rsnissan

iTrader: (9)

Thats my plan, pay the house off then do something simpler but less stress

Lee Reynolds

thats the attitude mate. I NEVER work more than 40 hours a week now out of home. I do maybe 2 or 3 hours a week paperwork but thats it! Life is more important! Id be on silly silly money if i did 60-80 hours but WHY?????????????????????????????????

pugo

i agree, i am fortunate enough to be earning well in excess of 4k a month....however i still love my fords.....although the only one i have currently is a beaten up mk2 fiesta that i use to take rubbish to the tip (and that is all its used for) and yes i will buy another cossie at some point, however the difference is i have cars for all occasions and not just one......and i think thats the difference......but i will always love fords as i was brought up on them

DangerousBryan

i take home 320 ish a week working 8.30 till5.30 monday to friday and 8.30 till 12.30 every saturday as a ford mechanic/technician.
i also take home 140 a week from a delivery job in the early hours of the morning.4.30 til 6 5 days a week.


bryan

Rick

Question should be:

how much do u earn a year basic, based on no more than 40 hrs. I do 9-5 Mon-Fri with an hour for lunch for example.

Not a week, or month etc - it needs to be averaged out.

bud-weis

you're obviously a very hard worker

Porkie

iTrader: (1)

Well I sit about 10 metres away from a genuine self made BILLIONAIRE...

And a very nice chap to

I bumped into him out in Paris at Rugby World cup final out of coincidence and he met some of my mates briefly... I told them what he was worth after and they suggested we should go back and kidnap him

RWD_cossie_wil

iTrader: (9)

so how do you actually get into city work?? What quals do you need?

Jemma

I wish

Think i may move nearer to London and learn a trade

Moonstone Steve.

iTrader: (2)

The question was "who earns a thousand pounds a week",

As i said i can just get to a grand if i do a saturday, then i get my cars slated saying i should be rolling around in cars like Phil, unfortunatly i have five kids and a detached house that takes a big chunk off my money so the fact i run around in a shitty old Ford............................sorry.

Steve

Redeye Jedi

I was going to ask a similar question, but what exactly is the kind of work these people do?! Id assume something along the lines of high end banking, or stocks/shares?

Id love to earn more money, but i find what i do already to be incredibly stressful and surely as the scale of earning increases, so does the stress level!

I take home £1100 a month (5 day week - 8am to 5:30pm with a 30min lunch) which is reletively fuck all compared to alot on here, but if i was on site i know for a fact i could increase that to £250-300 a day. I understand the demand for QS's is quite high, especially reliable/good quality ones!

Lee Reynolds

A billionaire Fooking hell!

Porkie, you may not answer and fair do's Just being noset but:

Are you a millionaire?

Mr S1

iTrader: (2)

I met the richest guy in Wales recently, his name is Terry something or other. He's started and sold 2 or 3 IT companies, both bought by Microsoft. He owns the Celtic Manor amongst other things and he's a genuinely nice, down to earth chap.

Lee - what you need to bear in mind as far as millionaires go is in real terms it's usually all bollocks. There are tens of thousands of 'millionaires' in the UK but that doesn't mean they have a million in the bank cash. The vast majority are made up of houses and tangible assets, most of which aren't cash. If a guy has a house worth £2m and has a mortgage of £1.5m technically he's a millionaire as he has an asset worth £2m. However, what you need to look at is his net asset position ie. value of the assets minus the liabilities. If that is over a million then you could say he is a genuine millionaire, but it still doesn't mean he has a million in cash, he could only manage that if he realised all his assets and turned them into cash.

alistairolsen

Hence the term "paper millionaire" from what little I know of porkie tho, Id imagine he is firmly in the realms of being a real millionaire. Im only hypothesising tho, down to him if he wishes to confirm/deny

RSrussell

pmsl @ "people should be driving Ferraris not fords"

Any good businessman knows, "owning an expensive car isn't going to earn you money" simple

And £1k a week, paa, i spend more than that

Mr S1

iTrader: (2)

I left school at 16 with GCSE's (and the results were shit as well).

Right place, right time, work hard and well, get on with people. Works for me.

As for Porkie, if he is a millionaire then fair play to him I'd be the first to shake his hand as he's done it himself. My own view is it's nobody else's business how much he does or doesn't earn - the fact is he's done it himself and from what I know of him he's a sound fella.

All credit to him.

Mark_

im a class 1 (artics) lorry driver i take around £6-700 a week in my permant job but on agency i can get up to £900 a week

Big G

Is he choosy as to what he wants to do because there is a fair bit of work out there, I am getting fed up of being offered work
If he is prepared to travel to Thorne then he shouldnt have a problem, I have had a company offer me digs so I dont have to commute from the right side o th'ills

OvaBoost

I'm on £120 a week 1st year electrician apprentice.
Hopefully be near/on £200 a day when im qualified

DangerousBryan

more a necessity i am afraid mate. all bills and mortgage come to 230 a week.usually spend a 100 on the weekly shop,40 quid a week in fuel.
still doesn't leave a lot to play around with.

bryan

Alps Pacino

OvaBoost

200 a day as a bog standard sparkie

Twellsie

iTrader: (1)

i had never realised how much money can be made driving taxi, work the right times and you will easily clear £200 a day

p.s. i am not a taxi driver

JAP CRAP

you mean... "best of kids, I am liquid!" lol