Is it too late to buy gold?

And this is going to result in there being no craftsmen in a generation or
two.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Ah - comfort goods when you've just had the 911 repossessed

 

Breweries are usually a good investment at this time too.

At the height of the early nineties negative equity debacle, business
was /booming/.

P.

 

snip>

There are still a lot of people out there who think that because
someone chose to leave school and be trained in manual skills rather
than go on to university that they're not worth even half as much
money when it comes to the hourly rate.

How much would you pay for top end legal advise and how much would you
pay someone to mend your boiler? How much would you pay for an hour
with your accountant and how much per hour would you pay someone like
me to help make sure the turbines spin up again at your local power
station?

It'll be about how much the end user wants to pay for his prototype
controlling how much your cousin can pay his welders. Welders (good
ones) can get a grand a day at a power station in the summer and your
cousin won't be costing his labour out at much over £40/hour.

 

depends on who the shares are off. Our annual shareplan offer is soon
- I think I'll probably risk it.

well, there are certainly going to be more shit-storms - no way has
everything bottomed out yet.

 

Heh, I've done some work for a family that devised
"under-water pyrotechnics".

Torpedoes!

--
Jeweller
R100RT
Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo,
R80/7, R100RT (green!)
www.davidhowardjeweller.co.uk

 

There are people who would turn their nose up at a solicitor charging
less than X hundred per hour but who object to a plumber looking for
an hourly rate over 50 (which is not his pay but his total cost). If
the solicitor gets it wrong you're only metaphorically in the shit.

 

A good solicitor will have spent many years training, & be able to save
or gain you a shitload of money. Domestic plumbing otoh is a piece of
piss, & little more than manual labour. If you can drill a hole in a
wall/joist, & read, you can fit a central heating system from scratch
(apart from the electrical/gas side).

Repairing boilers is obviously a step up, but most plumbers either
don't do repairs, or only tackle them while on the phone to a
specialist.

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

All very interesting and all very useful at 10 past 4 in the morning when
your boiler shits the bed. try getting a solicitor out at that time.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I wouldn't try, but then again I wouldn't get a plumber either. I'd
just switch the water/gas/electric off & go back to sleep.

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

They'd be happy to come out. It would just cost you.. more. Much more.

After all - copshops are 24-hour.

Phil.

 

It's your stop cock that's the problem.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

It's easy when you're banged up in a police cell, there's always a
brief kicking his heels around the station somewhere.

DAMHIK

 

Christ, talk about moving the goalposts. I still wouldn't call a
plumber out, I'd just pinch the pipe shut, cut it & fit a stop-end.

There will of course be times when some people need to call a plumber
out in the middle of the night, & yes you'd expect to pay a fair whack.
But that still doesn't make them worth 50 quid an hour during a normal
working day.

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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The trouble is that the powers that be don't want to eat into their
profits by paying for skilled engineers so they end up with a high
percentage of donkeys and the work takes longer. Hang on, that means
they're not generating power so they're not making money. There's a
shame.

I'm not tempted by it because it's an absolute dog of a job (1) and
it's paid on work completed within spec. Make one tiny little **** up
and you don't get paid until it's been rectified and if you're working
for cunts they can charge you for extra work involved. You've got to
be good to get the big bucks.

(1) Heat, carcinogenic fumes, filthy conditions under a turbine or
above a boiler, noise and many more small discomforts. The fumes
aren't always carcinogenic but some are and who's to say that what's
considered safe today won't be tomorrows asbestos?

 

It does if you can't fix it yourself.

 

Heh, I work on the fuckers that fire them.

Hunter killer subs!

Beat that bastard...

 

When I was still working I heard one of the big American banks was
going under, hadn't realised it was going to be Lehmans.

You're right. This particular shitstorm hasn't abated yet.

P.

 

Clenched buttocks.

HTH

Paul.

 

I so don't miss this shit.