private weekend work

[RJP1]

hi just looking for any advice really, im fully qualified and starting to find myself getting extremely bored at weekends. anyway i was wondering how people go about getting private jobs etc?

thanks

 

[Pete999]

Local Wholesaler and leave your business card, if they will let you. bit worrying though if the firm you work for uses that particular Wholesaler, could be embarrassing.

 

[RJP1]

Thanks

 

[Jay Sparks]

Try asking your friends and family to recommend/use your services. Word of mouth can take a long time but can eventually be the only advertising you need if you do a decent job at a decent price every time.

Jay

 

[ruston]

I'm surprised that has not already happened to be honest.
I never had to advertise.

 

[buzzlightyear]

will you pay tax on the week end jobs, next time you take on any weekend job
think about your company paying your tax and the vat they paying if they are vat reg
and the self employed paying there taxes.

 

[Wilko]

Just a reminder about the part P bit for domestic and your insurance

 

[RJP1]

I wasn't going to intend to pay tax on the jobs if I found any

 

[Dave OCD]

I wondered how long it would take for the type of post above to appear [Post 6], of course none of us have ever done a job for cash, not ever.

 

[buzzlightyear]

second job then .tell tax hmrc and see what they say !

 

[buzzlightyear]

be carefull what you say on this site .

 

[Octopus]

I wasn't going to intend to pay tax on the jobs if I found any

So no tax, no ni, no insurance...... Let's hope nothing goes wrong.... Even a vehicle accident on the way home from a job could land you in trouble unless you tell your vehicle insurance.....

Good luck with all that

 

[D00DY_T00DY]

I wondered how long it would take for the type of post above to appear [Post 6], of course none of us have ever done a job for cash, not ever.

Never! That would be dispicible.
And yet oh so lovely.

 

[rolyberkin]

If you do jobs at the weekend even for friends you need to be insured (even mates get ----ed off when you hit a water pipe!), notify where appropriate and be doing some kind of tax return , there is a difference between doing the odd job for a mate cash in hand and working for other people and evade paying tax, if you get properly investigated by HMRC you will wish that you paid tax on every job. The first problem customer will tell HMRC about you, just cut out the middle man, you shouldn't pay that much tax in any case.

 

[rolyberkin]

Oh and how to get work, get some leaflets printed and post locally, no job too small etc etc. Start with the small jobs and then wait, after about five weeks you don't want to work at the weekend anymore, oh and when things go wrong, the customer will definitely not want to wait until next weekend for you to sort it out, been there....!

 

[PEG]

Surprising statement at #8,if genuine.I guess you just have to decide if eating your cake,and having your cake...can be combined with success

 

[Specialist]

O/P: You say in your question that your Fully Qualified, Yet you say on your profile that your an Apprentice. Just wondering which one is true ?.

 

[Pete999]

O/P: You say in your question that your Fully Qualified, Yet you say on your profile that your an Apprentice. Just wondering which one is true ?.

Could be the OP, like a great deal of members either don't bother putting any info or don't update their profile

 

[Specialist]

Possibly mate, Been a long night & my heads not working straight.

 

[ruston]

I was confused from the start lol. I thought it was a lead in to going it alone.

 

[DPG]

So you want advice from tax-paying electricians on how you can go about getting jobs where you will undercut people by working for cash in hand? Really?

 

[Specialist]

Seems that's about the size of it.

 

[Rpa07]

Either ask for more responsibility at work in the week to tire you out or get a hobby for the weekend.

 

[Hellmooth]

Take up golf, job done

 

[D00DY_T00DY]

Take up golf, job done

Wants a hobby. Not torture

 

[R G]

If he's really bored and wants to kill time he can be a regular on this forum then like won't have time to do any work at all , any day of the week....

 

[freddo]

Indeed, people ask all the time to do cash work, I don't have time for that. I use part p as an excuse to get out of doing it!

 

[PEG]

Indeed, people ask all the time to do cash work, I don't have time for that. I use part p as an excuse to get out of doing it!

Yeah,yeah...the cheques in the post,i'm on the pill,i was only doin' 32....

 

[farmer]

As others have said word of mouth is the best. I'd say I average about 80 a week from foxers. Might seem small but they all add up