It's fun talking to yourself isn't it?

That's what happens when you filter people who talked to you....

right, quickfire quiz.

what the fak do i do next week ?
























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you can actually get a decent hotel in town for £60 a night. that's not too bad. take something for 10 days while i sort out what im doing

We care. We really really care.


Home time.


I wish you a pleasant evening JPB.

ooooooooooo it looks like weekends are more expensive

what's bournemouth like in the winter ?

ok, sooooo thinking out loud.

the first step i want to take in connection with my business, is to meet up with a guy who has said i might be able to use a desk at his office. so maybe i should find out when he's available to meet, and plan going back around that ?

i think that's got to be step one.

i cant really decide on anything until after that meeting, so until then AT LEAST, i cant really rent anywhere, so will need to stay in a hotel.

let's say i assume that i will stay in a hotel in my home town for 2 weeks.

why 2 weeks ?

because i need to get my suit cleaned before i meet this guy - that'll take 2 days ine england.

then at best, the result of the meeting will be, have a think about it.

got to think about it for at least 5 days.

then a couple of days to sort things out.

so say 10 days in the hotel.

then either move down to next to his office and find a hotel there for say 10 days while i find somewhere to rent, or take the hotel im in for another 10 days while i find somewhere to rent somewhere else.

so that's 20 days in a hotel * £80 = £1600 up front.

plus travel.,,,,maybe rent a car for 3 weeks....

20 days * £50 (inc petrol) = £1000

so with food and that

£300 for 3 weeks.

3k i mean

is that tax deductable does anyone know ?

i wouldnt be able to take a long term rental or buy a car though after 3 weeks, unless i dropped straight into some work, so assume give it 7 weeks as a trial to see if im likely to get any work in.

weeks 4-7 with rented car, but short term rental, say £1500 for month. so with the car, and a month's food etc, say £750 for that = £3250 for weeks 4-7.

say £1500 on business related costs =

£3000
£3250
£1500
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say£7,500 for a 7 week trial.

then either jack it in and go to.......................errrrr...................................

ok, dont jack it in.

get a flat say £1500 a month, plus £750, plus £250 business = £2,500 per month * 5 months = £12,500

plus my £7,500

= £20,000 for 6 months.

plus a 2nd hand car and fuel, insurance etc, say £10l

= £30k for 6 months to get the business going.

ok, im prepared to write off £30k but have to get enough work in to pay the bills within 6 months.

say 30 day payment terms, invoiving at end of month, so say 4.5 months to get up to covering costs.

£2,500 plus car = £3k per month

so £3k net.

say 30%ish tax = c£4k per month billing.

say £60 an hour = c70 hours per month.

= around 50% of my time billable within 4.5 months.

office rental

how much is a fakin office ?

looks like you can get something for under £100 a week.

* 26 weeks = £2,500.

aint going to break the bank.

say £5k then extra on business set up costs during that period.

could i sleep in the office ?

so

£1000 a week for 3 weeks
£800 a week for 4 weeks
£400 a week after that

ah, noone can live off £400 a week. something's gone wrong there.

missed the car out didnt i

also you can double the £750 a month for living expenses.

maybe just hire a small car for a bit.

The good news thread.

You are aving a larf................

this is going to be expensive.

but it could be quite good fun

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RRP and I started it, Messiah, RDBD and Galv came along.. then the likes of Rodwellard (floppy)
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i forgot rbdb, galvin commented on the thread before you did.

the most prolific posters during the most prolofic periods have been the top 5 on that list i'd say.

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im going to do a sample of regular poster from random pages. i might be about half an hour or so.

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if you dont put an order on it, then you would still have to say that the mainstay poster during the first half of the thread (up til now) were :

messiah
galvin
rrp
tbok ?
jpb
bales
edin
kent
rrp

of those, probably the following have been mainstays during the 2nd half of the thread :


messiah
galvin
tbok
jpb