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Am I reading a different thread to Tom?
Maybe you need to be more realistic. I didn’t expect to take a salary in my first 2 years whilst establishing my business, if I did then it was a bonus…and that was before the recession pounced. I also expected to be investing a lot of my own money, and any help from the Government or other sources would also be a bonus.
Grants are more readily available in some parts of the country than others – based where I am I don’t qualfy for any grants, if I moved just 40 miles up the road then I would. Yes there are some grants for ethnic groups but they tend to be quite small, usually no more than £500. Most grants that are available make no differentiation on race or creed. For most grants you have to be a detective to find out about them then have plenty of time to spare to fill in the forms and jump through the hoops so you wonder whether all the effort is worth it.
You could always arrange an appointment with your local Business Link or Enterprise Agency, or talk to your local Chamber of Commerce, or even join the FSB and tap into all the knowledge there of people who have been there and got the tshirt.
After all, we set up our own businesses because we want to be independent and not answer to anyone don’t we? or is it just about making money?
@tom wrote:
There’s really no need to be a troll. I forgot how paranoid and argument-hungry JCers were to be honest :lol:
Oh my gosh, I had no intention of being a troll, far from it! And neither am I paranoid or argument-hungry, if that were the case I would be saying something along the lines that all business should be taxed, capitalists making money off the backs of others and so on…or as a female I might have had a dig about you making money out of a sex site. But I did neither.
But hey, do feel free to ignore anything else I said and home in on one throwaway comment if that suits your purpose. My final comment was meant to be a joke, but hey ho.
Here we go…why can’t we just welcome a chatter to the boards? He’s already said elsewhere that he’s been chatting for 6 years (or more?), so does it really matter? “We” (as in the royal we) moan about the boards being dead, then the minute someone starts posting “we” start going on about old chatters.
Who cares if a chatter has posted before under a different name?
As long as they have a modicum of intelligence, can string together a sentence that people can understand, and bring a new perspective and a bit of life to the boards, no harm done.
Rant over :evil:
@tom wrote:
Anyway. Who here is registered self employed?
I am.
@tom wrote:
Did you get help from the government, or exempted from tax until you were properly established?
Are you kidding? Everyone, not just the Government, seems to a business as a cash cow, you’re paying out hand over fist before you even start, usually on things to do with red tape rather than the tangible get-this-business-on-the-road stuff. And as a business you have nowhere near the same protection as the ordinary consumer. ‘Tis a shark-infested pool, and a good accountant and solicitor are worth their weight in gold, even though I object to their fees!
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Or did they sniff around your pockets before you even put your money in there?
Yep…Dick Turpin is alive and well and has many masks.
But of course, this is really a thinly veiled attempt to promote your own money-making sites…. :wink:
@tom wrote:
Either I’m slowly growing old, or other chatters are mentally getting younger.
Or both? Don’t worry, maybe you’ll enter your second childhood soon and you’ll be on the same wavelength as them again… :wink: :lol:
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