Quote: (08-12-2018 05:50 PM)nomadbrah Wrote:
I think the best position to be in is to be smart and work a trade.
There's a lot of dumbasses in trade, let's be honest, cause everyone in my generation were pushed into academic education.
I was thinking this the other day. If society collapses, what use is online marketing or coding? Not much.
Nope, I'd like to have learned a trade. Then market it using video, social media, websites, SEO.
It's maybe 1 in a 1000 tradies who get the very basics of marketing, branding, customer identification etc. You can really clean up if you know how to market as a tradie.
Yes, but then you become a businessman, not a tradie. I spent far less time on the tools than I did when I started. Not neccesarily a bad thing, but something to be aware of.
I'm at a kind of 'sweet spot' now whereby I have a lot of tools, and can go out with a guy or two most days and make £300-500 after wages depending upon whether I have a second man and machine or team out. The question now is whether to scale or specialise. I'm leaning towards scale, but it comes with a whole other set of issues and a short to medium term drop in profits as you hire the right people.
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