Feel like giving it up...

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[Andy™]

Building inspector will want a part p certificate for most jobs though.

building reg application may well include electrical work, so LABC are responsible for I&T

 

[Genehon]

I think a good electrician has always work.

Of course there will be times that you think that you don't have work to do in the next week, but... somehow, sometimes, some work appears..

Currently i work in my father's electrical company, and the last year (2009), instead of telling the employees to work, my father had to tell them to wash the company cars and clean the office because we had just a few work.

But guess what, i didn't like that, and i've decided to build a website to promote my father's company, and i've made a low investment on Google Adwords.

After one year, the company managed to maintain the same amount of employees and now most of our work comes because people search for electrical companys on Google.

It's not just ordinary people, but medium and big construction companys that ask for our work, because they saw our website.

Sometimes when you think you can't do any more for your business, you can.

E-mailing companys, E-mailing Hotels with maintenance proposals, Visiting VIP coffees or restaurants, Using Google Ad-words, Making business cooperation with architects and building engineers (by cooperation i mean giving them about 5%-10% of the profit earned through them), there's many ways to get work, the only thing necessary is willpower and luck.

I want to leave Portugal and go to UK, because yeah... the wage is 5 times more. I think "hey, why i earn 600

 

[tonywheatley]

i wanted to give up 50 years ago but soldier on