Odd jobs for a living!!

Chia

I'm all about hustling for scrilla as I too am self-employed, but since I use public services like roads and the NHS and may need benefits if I ever get old, it seems like a good thing to do to pay taxes.

Should be gardening, do you pay anything in tax, or are you leaving that up to the rest of the working class? I noticed in one of your posts that you want to remain anonymous as people have mentioned 'reporting earnings'. Reporting earnings is kind of mandatory by law...

Should_be_out_gardening

Chia wrote: »

I'm all about hustling for scrilla as I too am self-employed, but since I use public services like roads and the NHS and may need benefits if I ever get old, it seems like a good thing to do to pay taxes.

Should be gardening, do you pay anything in tax, or are you leaving that up to the rest of the working class? I noticed in one of your posts that you want to remain anonymous as people have mentioned 'reporting earnings'. Reporting earnings is kind of mandatory by law...

Oh don't get any knickers in a twist , I too am self employed had you read the whole thread. I submit a self certification form every year fro any thing I have receipts for. I pay aan NI stamp too.

I worked for 31 yrs and never claimed anything , when I got made redundant and couldn't find anything I was refused benefits as my wife works. The problem is her wages won't cover everything. So basically my working taxes for what I did count for nothing.

If I was doing 20K a year you and others here so indignant might have a point but I'm not, I barely ever make minimum wage ever. If I was offered a minimum wage job tomorrow I'd rip their arms off, but at my age they don't want to know.

So I'm dipped really, I either do what I can or I go under and I'm not doing that to assuage the feelings of others who trumpet rights and wrongs but have little or no understanding of what it's really like.

I'll remember this when I'm cutting down a tree in the pouring rain having made just £20 that week.

You know what really galling? really? elsewhere on this forum there are folk in financial trouble on benefits yet they smoke £80 of fags a month and can't possibly get rid of Sky. 31 yrs of work and I get F all.

Should_be_out_gardening

Jeanetteathome wrote: »

I think thats superb , well done to you. Since I've read your posts I look out now and you can see a lot of waste when folk have their houses done up, those bags of sand left outside for months after etc.

The thing is the government won't help so you must get out there and do the best you can.

Damn right they won't!

I noticed the stuff in gardens and skips ages ago when doing kleeneze walking round the streets. I took to asking if they wanted the stuff and they were damn glad to be rid of the stuff most of the time. Those large round bags with the big handles that are dropped off a lorry with a crane, they get left behind when the jobs done. Builders often don't want that quarter pallet of bricks and stuff. I take it off their hands for free or for a small amount.

Then when someone needs a step doing or a small job I have whats needed.

Should_be_out_gardening

starrygal wrote: »

I'm over 50 and been out of work for 8 years. Despite working for years, I'm not eligible for any benefits because, like Should be out Gardening, my partner works. Interestingly, this also means that we are not counted in the Unemployment statistics either. I wouldn't mind getting even a fraction of the 26k the government wants to cap benefits at...

Good for you, Should be out Gardening, it's heartening to read about some positive stuff :T . Started me thinking about things I could turn my hand to.

Some really self-righteous types on this board though :eek:

Indeed there are, however I press on regardless.

I look forward to the spring and summer , I haven't much on at the moment.

fuzzball172

Where is the best place to find an odd job person? I'm self employed and currently not able to work as I have a prolapsed disc in my spine, but I need 2 metal sheds erecting. I tried the local property management companies but they are charging £200+ for a simple flat pack metal shed. Seems like they all quote silly prices so they don't have to do the job.

Chia

Should_be_out_gardening wrote: »

Oh don't get any knickers in a twist , I too am self employed had you read the whole thread. I submit a self certification form every year fro any thing I have receipts for. I pay aan NI stamp too.

I worked for 31 yrs and never claimed anything , when I got made redundant and couldn't find anything I was refused benefits as my wife works. The problem is her wages won't cover everything. So basically my working taxes for what I did count for nothing.

If I was doing 20K a year you and others here so indignant might have a point but I'm not, I barely ever make minimum wage ever. If I was offered a minimum wage job tomorrow I'd rip their arms off, but at my age they don't want to know.

So I'm dipped really, I either do what I can or I go under and I'm not doing that to assuage the feelings of others who trumpet rights and wrongs but have little or no understanding of what it's really like.

I'll remember this when I'm cutting down a tree in the pouring rain having made just £20 that week.

You know what really galling? really? elsewhere on this forum there are folk in financial trouble on benefits yet they smoke £80 of fags a month and can't possibly get rid of Sky. 31 yrs of work and I get F all.

OK, OK, point taken. You have to admit it looks dodgy saying you don't want your name getting out in relation to claiming/not claiming earnings (and taking bricks from a property you don't own, derelict or not), but I can see where you are coming from.

square-pants

What a wonderful thread. You sound like a hardworking individual with a great attitude to life.

I can't believe there are people having a go at you for taxes and waste licenses etc. It's bonkers....you're working hard and making the most of every opportunity, as well as sharing your anecdotes with others so that they might do the same.

The people having a go, might want to concentrate their efforts on the likes of a family that lives nearby me - the mum and dad don't work, the whole family are always in trouble with the police (two police cars here this week), the children are vile - jumping up and down on their trampoline and sticking their fingers up at my young children (we can't use our garden anymore), and yet they are given a lovely council house, don't need to work because they are funded by benefits and on last bin day put out the box for a massive flatscreen TV. Beggars belief.

Chia

square-pants wrote: »

What a wonderful thread. You sound like a hardworking individual with a great attitude to life.

I can't believe there are people having a go at you for taxes and waste licenses etc. It's bonkers....you're working hard and making the most of every opportunity, as well as sharing your anecdotes with others so that they might do the same.

The people having a go, might want to concentrate their efforts on the likes of a family that lives nearby me - the mum and dad don't work, the whole family are always in trouble with the police (two police cars here this week), the children are vile - jumping up and down on their trampoline and sticking their fingers up at my young children (we can't use our garden anymore), and yet they are given a lovely council house, don't need to work because they are funded by benefits and on last bin day put out the box for a massive flatscreen TV. Beggars belief.

Right, so, your general view is that as long as somebody works hard and gets after it, they can conceal some of their income if they want? And that trade licensing should be optional?

And as for your neighbors, do you actually know them and their circumstances, or have you just watched from afar and assumed that benefits are their only source of income?

thistledome

OP, don't rise to the bait of the self-righteous on here. They want you to argue with them and spoil the thread for the rest of us who are enjoying your posts. Just ignore them and they'll go away.

square-pants post is spot on.:T

Should_be_out_gardening

Chia wrote: »

Right, so, your general view is that as long as somebody works hard and gets after it, they can conceal some of their income if they want? And that trade licensing should be optional?

And as for your neighbors, do you actually know them and their circumstances, or have you just watched from afar and assumed that benefits are their only source of income?

Couldn't care less what *you* think it looks like - I'm self employed I fill in my form and pay NI. The end, it's between me and the tax man , not some forum nanny.

You and those like you are the very reason why the disabled forum member can't have my number, interfering nannies, petty minded trouble makers who would love to have the vat man go over me for tuppence whilst too scared to go after the proper rip off merchants because they are real criminals.

As to these bricks - to clear this up for all the people so upset by it. The place is not just derelict but dangerous, one end of the outer perimeter boundary wall fell down and blocked the path for weeks , The council were told repeatedly and only after the local rag got involved did two council bods come along and chuck the fallen brick back into the property perimeter. The rest of the wall teeters and is (was) dangerous, so even though the coucil know they do nothing preferring to clean pavements of chewing gum in little used side streets in the town centre.

Sod that , I took the wall down , it fell apart in my hands , dressed the bricks (look it up) and took them away . Used them to build a very nice garden wall for a couple and got paid for it. Took a receipt and declared it.

The site is all derelict, burn out, it's was stripped for metal years ago when it was closed. Its and eyesore, they won't do anything till it falls down and then it will be bulldozed flat crushed for hardcore and the rest into landfill.

Occasionally pallets are dumped their by local businesses, I've seen them do it. So I take them for the wood.

So there!