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Hello and welcome.
Hmmm? Thinks! ....... have you ever seen a rich motorcycle mechanic?
I would say that for 99.999% motorbikes are either transport or a hobby.
I’d suggest keeping bikes as a hobby and look elsewhere to make a living.
If you keep bikes as a hobby, you’ll always love them, maybe, possibly, I think?
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Compared to being rained on by IDF, IED'd to shit everytime you go anywhere and hearing "Contact, Wait Out" , more often than "Hello", everything you do in life is going to be boring.
They don't tell you this when you join Civ Div but you will firstly never ever fit in, secondly most people will think you are a walking basket of severely repressed mental issues and you will find any job boring rather quickly.
I lobbed my kit over the QM's fence over 10 years ago. After drifiting about briefly (which as you've probably realised is shit), I found the Haulage Industry a good fit. HR and political correctness stuck in the 1980's and if not a turbo-mong you can climb to decent pay fairly quickly. I'm now at a level where I'm bored (behind a desk all day), but I've developed the sense to realise bored and earning a fairly large pay cheque is far better than temporarily not bored and not being able to afford a garage full of toys.
Guess what I'm saying in a long winded way is stick with what is paying the bills, progress in it. Use the wage to play with fun toys and save what you can to retire early somewhere sunny with sand (but no Chogies ). The varied nature of work in the Army you are never going to rediscover. The sense of purpose you will never rediscover. The camaraderie between brothers you will never rediscover. Those are unique to the Military. On the plus side if you lower the rose tinted glasses you are also never going to rediscover picking bits of your mates brain matter from between your teeth and other such awesome memories being a soldier leaves burnt in to your brain. |
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I know of a guy who is a domicilliary motorcycle mechanic. He goes round to peoples houses and does bits of servicing etc.
Quite a good one. The people he caters for are usually cash-rich but time poor and he charges quite a lot fo the convenience of his service. Pay on the day. Also no outlay on premesis etc. You effectively outfit a van like a club racers pit van. Abba stand with all the fittings, good wind-out awning, manual tyre change machine etc in the back. Think he even has a wee inverter welder and compressor in there.
He tends to do a lot of weekend/evening work. Suits him. I got the impression it's not his only job. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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stinkwheel wrote: | I know of a guy who is a domicilliary motorcycle mechanic. He goes round to peoples houses and does bits of servicing etc.
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I know a bloke who does the same and he's been in business for over 30 years. He does also work for non-dealer bike shops though, so I guess you'd have to scope out the potential competition before considering doing this, unless you have a few quid in the bank to live off whilst you build your client-base. ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting... |
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pepperami wrote: | I’d suggest keeping bikes as a hobby and look elsewhere to make a living. Work to live your life, not live your life to work |
This ^^ how about working in something a little bit different, like Support Work? There are various types of help required out there...you might find something like where you support people regain their lives after illness, stroke, brain injury or whatever a little more fulfilling.
You will never be rich in cash but you will become rich in job satisfaction, smiles, the feeling of fulfillment, of job satisfaction, that you have acheived something daily. ____________________ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss |
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Perhaps, just maybe, there money in high end restorations of classics.
Although I suspect the current practitioners will be operating a closed shop.
'Big mortgage and young family' you say. Well I don't know how to break this to you but your adventuring days are over for the foreseeable future.
As mentioned earlier, stick it out till pension time and hopefully you'll be young enough to have a second bite at the adventure cherry..
Cheers ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600 |
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Hell, just go with what you want to do.
My fall from glory as a legal secretary into a receptionist in a brothel wasn't even considered as a career move: I think I must have been bored the day I did a U-ey in life* and went off and did that. Huge adventures! A whole autobiography all on its own, if I could pull my finger out of my arse and be bothered to write it.
You never know what adventure your life is going to take you on, until you step out of the safe boring place.
*well, okay, it might have been another U-ey. Turns out I might have done a couple through the years, actually
Fuck it.
Life is short, and there are only so many diems to carpe.
What if you died of Covid tomorrow?
Apparently you take long enough to die that you get to think about all the things you never got round to doing.
Yay! ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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hellkat wrote: |
You never know what adventure your life is going to take you on, until you step out of the safe boring place. |
But unless you're financially successful at a relatively early age, if you have a family, you can't just step out of that place. That for me is a nightmare scenario, but we're all different. If you chose the family route, you have to be able to make that your main joy and motivation while it restricts you in other things I think.
I have been fortunate to have been able to do it once in a while through my life, and part of the reason has been that money was never my major motivation. Sometimes, life changed for bad reasons, accidents/injuries, but even that always led to something else, something different. I learned early on to manage with little, but enjoyed money when it came, instead of hoarding it away for some retirement that I might not live to see. I have no retirement plan or insurance, but things'll work out somehow. They always have. And when it comes, death is just another resolution to life's problems.
I'm in a tight place now, but it doesn't mean I don't think I'll ever do anything again. I mean, sometimes I feel that way, but I try not to dwell on it too much. I have another focus even now, although it might not be the way out of my current situation. But then again, it might, perhaps in a way I can't see right now. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I loved my seafaring job but the further up the ladder I got I disliked it more and more culminating in when I went in the office to run my own little fleet. I hated it.
Not the responsibility but the sense of being twisted and shaped into something I wasn't.
When my 2 year stint expired I had to get out even though they wouldn't offer me anything else. 40 years I worked for them and it was bye, clear your desk and hand your security pass in on the way out. Obviously the new graduate employees could do my job better.
Office fcukers, I never fitted in. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 19 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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