Re: Where's all the Jobs then?
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Older git
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Plenty of folk want gardeners but I do mean just weeding and `tidying up` It`s no way to a fortune but as a guide I pay mine £15 an hour.
Nothing wrong with being a jobbing gardener-mine has a son who has just been accepted at UCL
I had thought of this OG and I've been through all the costings etcetera and it's a bit of a risk for us to be honest, especially as it seems to be mainly seasonal.
As a gardener I know that non-gardeners and even those who profess to know "a bit about gardening" usually dismiss the Winter time as a time when nobody does gardening and, as most gardeners know, it's simply not the case - ask Monty Don!
My costing had to include changing our car for a van - wife not happy about that at all, but tentative enquiries that I made found that £12 per hour was the most people would cough up but what they expected for that was rather OTT!
A bloke just up the road offered me work in his garden quite some time ago.
He wanted to pay me "a good drink" and expected me to leap at the chance of digging-out his 122 foot, badly-neglected garden completely, creating flower beds and raised beds, building decking and paving a patio - in one week.
That's what you're up against unfortunately.
I also had some sh**bag anonymously snail-mail me telling me not to go up against him as "this area's mine" as he put it - brain-dead moron.
So at the moment it's hit the 'net every night and see what's about.
I've done warehouse work - sign-in, turn off brain but if I have to, I'll do it again but I'm halfway through a Royal Mail application, wondering whether to go for it.
It's at a depot I've worked at as a temp so I know the score and I know 40% of the "walks" as I've done them, plus I've done sorting there too.
Still hurts though to think of leaving the job I REALLY wanted to do - working to make the lives of disabled people just that bit better.
If / when I leave, it'll hurt me and I know some of them will be upset.
They're more my friends than anyone I work with because I'm disabled too and they know that. stevmk2