05-03-15, 09:30 AM
I left school at 17 and went to work for the AA answering the phone lines breakdown calls, it wasn't long before they recognised my brilliance and pulled me off of the phones and trained me in other stuff and it wasn't long before I was a manager 8 years later I was headhunted by a local engineering company who wanted me to implement a stock control system for them and head up the sales team, 4 years later I was head hunted again by Vodafone and I went and worked in their in house tech support team. Then I met the current Mrs Layley and moved to Northants and having being used to walking out of one job and into another and never even having to try at an interview when I lived in Newbury, I had a shock when I could not even get warehouse work up here.
I went through a series of shitty jobs up, before being offered a job by a friend of a friend who had a bike shop and wanted someone who knew their way around bikes, I have been tinkering with bikes from a very early age and was lucky enough to retrain & gain qualifications & I have enjoyed working for myself at Motorcycle Republic fixing bikes and building up a business but now I am looking around at other stuff as Laura and I have also built up the second business with Fat Maggot Clothing so am considering diversifying and doing something different.
The important things to remember are:
If you want an easy life, then do not work for yourself.
If you want less time at work, then do not work for yourself
If you want less stress, then do not work for yourself
But once you work for yourself, its really difficult to even contemplate ever having a "proper job" with a boss, office politics, and all the other shit that goes with it.
I went through a series of shitty jobs up, before being offered a job by a friend of a friend who had a bike shop and wanted someone who knew their way around bikes, I have been tinkering with bikes from a very early age and was lucky enough to retrain & gain qualifications & I have enjoyed working for myself at Motorcycle Republic fixing bikes and building up a business but now I am looking around at other stuff as Laura and I have also built up the second business with Fat Maggot Clothing so am considering diversifying and doing something different.
The important things to remember are:
If you want an easy life, then do not work for yourself.
If you want less time at work, then do not work for yourself
If you want less stress, then do not work for yourself
But once you work for yourself, its really difficult to even contemplate ever having a "proper job" with a boss, office politics, and all the other shit that goes with it.
Owner of Motorcycle Republic, Specialist in unfucking things that others have fucked up.