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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Well I could use a few bob extra, so I'll be glad to hear your suggestions. Assume I've got no money, no transport, no qualifications, no experience, and no talent.

    Gardening, car cleaning, Bettaware, Avon, alternatively you could jst sit around complaining
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Seems like the sort that would have tried to give Alan Sugar all the reasons why he should not start a business.
    Some succeed, many fail. I've got no objection to people playing the lottery of life. Or even being encouraged to. I object when idiots on forums talk as if everybody can win it.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Some succeed, many fail. I've got no objection to people playing the lottery of life. Or even being encouraged to. I object when idiots on forums talk as if everybody can win it.

    So far you have just come up with reasons of why not to try.
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Gardening, car cleaning, Bettaware, Avon, alternatively you could jst sit around complaining
    Did I mention I've got no transport? And of course I live in a depressed area - surprisingly, unemployed people often do. Strangely, they haven't managed to create a thriving local economy out of washing each other's cars instead of their own.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
  • heathcote123
    heathcote123 Posts: 1,133 Forumite
    edited 1 October 2011 at 10:16PM
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Well I could use a few bob extra, so I'll be glad to hear your suggestions. Assume I've got no money, no transport, no qualifications, no experience, and no talent.

    The most sensible thing to do is look at what you already do, and figure out a way of charging more money for it, outside of the confines of having an employer.

    I don't know though, what do you do? I'm sure you can't be a completely talentless, uneducated layabout?

    It's probably a bit OT though, as I don't think anyone was trying to make the point that it's easy for a completely talentless waster to start a business, just that it's not actually a massively impossible or expensive endeavour.

    It's generally known as capitalism, and believe it or not, people have been doing it succesfully for thousands of years. (though this may be because noone would pay any benefits back then)
  • jamespir
    jamespir Posts: 21,456 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Did I mention I've got no transport? And of course I live in a depressed area - surprisingly, unemployed people often do. Strangely, they haven't managed to create a thriving local economy out of washing each other's cars instead of their own.

    its ok it seems some on here have their blinkers on and only go by the propaganda realeased from the mail and the net and a bit like mps have never actually been unemployed and would be completly !!!!!!ed if they were because they are so out of touch with reality
    Replies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you
  • heathcote123
    heathcote123 Posts: 1,133 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Did I mention I've got no transport? And of course I live in a depressed area - surprisingly, unemployed people often do. Strangely, they haven't managed to create a thriving local economy out of washing each other's cars instead of their own.

    Selling drugs?
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Did I mention I've got no transport? And of course I live in a depressed area - surprisingly, unemployed people often do. Strangely, they haven't managed to create a thriving local economy out of washing each other's cars instead of their own.

    You really are just full of reasons not to try anything. Many depressed areas have beter areas within walking distance, but I guess that is not the sort of thing you wish to hear.
  • jamespir
    jamespir Posts: 21,456 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    You really are just full of reasons not to try anything. Many depressed areas have beter areas within walking distance, but I guess that is not the sort of thing you wish to hear.
    yeah i walk to work
    Replies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you
  • hallmark
    hallmark Posts: 1,477 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    pqrdef wrote: »
    Assume I've got no money, no transport, no qualifications, no experience, and no talent.

    I think we all assumed that some time ago.
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