What would you do different?

Danny

Danny

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There has been a couple of threads recently along the same lines but this one is a bit different...

So in hindsight if you were to start your plastering career again what would you do different?
 
Can't think of anything I would have done differently , apart from learn how to get my arse out of bed sooner in life.......... You can get so much more done and makes the day a little less stressful.
 
About 12 years ago I gave up plastering to try and become a property millionaire...took 3 years off.
Ended up bankrupt...what a numpty. Lost all my good customers after giving them the elbow to persue my dreams....so had to start again from scratch.

In hindsight...I'd have done the property on the side and kept spreading.
 
Dabbled in a bit of g-string waitering in my younger days...wish I carried on now i could of made it to full-time stripper the money was good.
 
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Learnt to trust my own judgement sooner.
And I would never have worked evenings or weekends, didn't make a difference to me in the long term, and I can't get that time back now.
Enjoyed the money and the freedom earlier. Feel I lost my 20s from chasing my tail all the time, and still ended up getting repossessed anyways...
 
I'd have have started a little shop selling plastering gear and machines. I'd have probably called it the plasterers many stops leave your credit card shop. That name doesn't quite have a ring to it though.
 
aspotofbother said:
Learnt to trust my own judgement sooner.
And I would never have worked evenings or weekends, didn't make a difference to me in the long term, and I can't get that time back now.
Enjoyed the money and the freedom earlier. Feel I lost my 20s from chasing my tail all the time, and still ended up getting repossessed anyways...
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That's a eye opener for me!

I work all the time and I'm in my 20's but I'm really considering taking more of my own work on and easing off from the company I do a lot of work for, its getting to much trying to keep them all happy. I dont mind the odd weekend and evening here and there but its going mad now.

I get afraid sometimes I'm gonna look back and think i should of done a bit more of what I wanted than what others wanted me to do.
 
roryston said:
That's a eye opener for me!

I work all the time and I'm in my 20's but I'm really considering taking more of my own work on and easing off from the company I do a lot of work for, its getting to much trying to keep them all happy. I dont mind the odd weekend and evening here and there but its going mad now.

I get afraid sometimes I'm gonna look back and think i should of done a bit more of what I wanted than what others wanted me to do.
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Only 33 myself, so certainly not a wise old owl!!
But I please myself and family now. Spent more time with my boys. Leave early one day a week to pick them up from school etc. Stuff I never did when I lived with them. Some people don't like it but, then they can get someone else can't they!!!
I earn enough to pay the bills etc. With a little left over.
Just wished I'd learnt it sooner!!
 
Pug said:
Charge more. When I started I kept my prices low to be competitive. I doubled my prices when I got ill thinking I'd start losing jobs (but not having to lose face by turning them down) Didn't make any difference! Feel like I mugged myself off for years now!
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same as that mate , makes my teeth itch how cheap i used to do jobs for, i always used to think people were doing me a favour by using me and giving me the work !!!
needless to say i am ruthless nowadays - a price is a price, if they dont like it phone someone who cares !!!
 
markyspread said:
same as that mate , makes my teeth itch how cheap i used to do jobs for, i always used to think people were doing me a favour by using me and giving me the work !!!
needless to say i am ruthless nowadays - a price is a price, if they dont like it phone someone who cares !!!
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I was lucky i learnt that very early and had a reputation for being expensive... I only needed a couple of jobs a week to cover my money so it was pretty easy :D
 
We definitely undervalue ourselves.
People don't look at the long term.
Id have put my prices higher sooner like pug.


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roryston said:
That's a eye opener for me!

I work all the time and I'm in my 20's but I'm really considering taking more of my own work on and easing off from the company I do a lot of work for, its getting to much trying to keep them all happy. I dont mind the odd weekend and evening here and there but its going mad now.

I get afraid sometimes I'm gonna look back and think i should of done a bit more of what I wanted than what others wanted me to do.
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Listen to your own advice pal from someone who put work first and cost me a lot in terms of friends / a lady I should of married .... you work to live not live to work ...

I don't regret going into plastering - yes its stressful, the public can be dicks but I also make my own hours now .... like others have said I can pull enough off 3 days a week after saving a lot through the years - im by no means rich but don't struggle to pay bills / buy stuff I want. - if I price work and don't get it I honestly don't care now .... gone are the days of pleasing people with prices etc just to be out the door . Let some other clown do it for less to a worse standard !!

I see some of my friends doing very very well in other areas but the stress it creates them etc is laughable ....

Ive just had a customer today moan at the price of a tiling job and last time I quoted they moaned/ haggled but I went a little lower because id had work through the family but ive just said i'll pass as this happened last time - isn't my loss as id rather chill out than work thinking why did I go lower on price .... balls to em
 
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