No Qualifications? No Career?

Oldernotwiser

UKBrad wrote: »

Thanks for all the advice, been looking at leisure learning courses and seen a garden maintenance course, am now thinking of doing some voluntary work and getting some further experience so I can potentially begin a landscape gardening business. the reason I chose this is as it is relatively cheap to set up and enjoy being outside. I have written a list of what I think I need and believe I can begin the businesses with £1000. this can be funded by my current job and I shall just start of as part time. Thanks for all you help, has really got me thinking

Leisure learning courses are just that; they're unsuited for professional purposes. If you're serious about this kind of work, look at doing a proper RHS course or similar.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/Courses

vaporate

B and C at GCSE is what I got.

They are good grades. Considering 40% of the pop fail to get 5 C even. (debateable why)

You can still do A-levels and degree even.

In fact, having GCSE grades is the most crucial in my view.

Hammyman

UKBrad wrote: »

I am also looking into starting my own business but once again without experiance or qualifications its not going to be easy. Thanks

You don't need any qualifications to start a business. Even experience isn't really a requirement although it is a good idea.

I can potentially begin a landscape gardening business. the reason I chose this is as it is relatively cheap to set up and enjoy being outside.

Oh. Dear. So your entire basis for what business you want to do is based on you THINKING its cheap to set up and you like being outside. Have you actually done proper gardening? And I put thinking in capitals because £1000 might just about cover business cards, leaflets and the very basic hand tools. It won't include power tools nor the important van required to get you from job to job and it'll leave you absolutely nothing to buy materials to do the jobs with - £1000 doesn't buy you a lot of paving slabs for instance.

The above shows that you've spent all of 5 minutes scribbling down a business plan. Have you done any market research to find out how many companies are already doing it in your area for example?