New business ideas please

[iainw]

Partner is a Consultant for the NHS and I am surprised at the pay she gets. She also retrained as a Medical Negligence Lawyer some years ago...was paid 4 times the wage to pick faults in NHS work but returned to health as she hated the morality of it all.

As she says there is more to life than money and until you realise that you will never have enough.

Totally agree. It's all a balance. The current balance is wrong though
In the health service. My only regret as I get older is that I have to spend much longer in work than my colleagues used to to get anywhere near the same pay- hence less time with my daughter whilst she grows up. I am pleased I still manage to take on lots of the child care- although it's getting trickier due to insane medical insurance costs and high taxes.
It's lucky there is significant job satisfaction in the NHS otherwise it would be like the Marie Celeste.

 

[zagatoes30]

A friend of mine went into the alloy refurb business for a bit, he jacked it in as he said there just wasn't the margin in it as so many places do refurb a these days.

He now imports classic Italian cars from Italy to sell over here and seems to do very well out of it.

https://www.facebook.com/Italian-Sports-and-Classics-702903389839625/?ref=br_rs&pnref=lhc

I think we have similar mates

 

[Wack61]

You need to buy a few 70s classic cars, restore them, sell on at a loss but pretend you're making a big wedge , ring the discovery channel , job jobbed

You'll need an annoying partner with a big gob to make this work

 

[CatmanV2]

You need to buy a few 70s classic cars, restore them, sell on at a loss but pretend you're making a big wedge , ring the discovery channel , job jobbed

You'll need an annoying partner with a big gob to make this work

Are you volunteering?

C

 

[Wack61]

Could do for 50k up front

 

[CatmanV2]

could do for 50k up front

c

 

[Dan!]

OK, so far I have decided not to be a consultant physician and restoring cars as a sole income source is also out.

The £100k bit I think is causing a bit of a mental barrier. How about £50k?

The reality is a business should have the potential to be scaled to give the desired income.

So thinking caps back on please

 

[rockits]

Call boy?

 

[Wack61]

I doubt many successful businesses started off with advice from the Internet, for a happy life I'd suggest doing something you enjoy as you're more likely to make a success of it which means it'll grow

There was a millionaire on the local TV news a couple of months ago , he'd invented something to do with computers , sold it for 60k , took the 60k and bought some land , a property development company approached him , he sold it to them for £2m

Best bit, he was 16 still doing his A levels at school

 

[CatmanV2]

Call boy?

£50k? Really!

C

 

[CatmanV2]

I doubt many successful businesses started off with advice from the Internet, for a happy life I'd suggest doing something you enjoy as you're more likely to make a success of it which means it'll grow l

<virtual coconut>

C

 

[D Walker]

I doubt many successful businesses started off with advice from the Internet, for a happy life I'd suggest doing something you enjoy as you're more likely to make a success of it which means it'll grow

There was a millionaire on the local TV news a couple of months ago , he'd invented something to do with computers , sold it for 60k , took the 60k and bought some land , a property development company approached him , he sold it to them for £2m

Best bit, he was 16 still doing his A levels at school

He actually "invented" tax and MOT reminders that you could put in your car where your tax disc holder was, he sold them online for £2/3 a go, the rest is as you say !!!

 

[GeoffCapes]

I've got a number of new business ideas, the only problem is I haven't the time (in one case) to set it up, another you need a fair amount of wedge to set up and then it's money for old rope.

Both very scalable and could easily be sold in 5-10 years.

 

[D Walker]

I've got a number of new business ideas, the only problem is I haven't the time (in one case) to set it up, another you need a fair amount of wedge to set up and then it's money for old rope.

Both very scalable and could easily be sold in 5-10 years.

Are they geographic specific??

 

[Dan!]

And would you like to share what they are

 

[philw696]

Would it work in New Zealand Mark ?

 

[GeoffCapes]

Are they geographic specific??

Neither are.

And would you like to share what they are

One I will. But that's only as I haven't the cash to set it up.
It's easy. Buy land near railway stations. Park cars on it.
I know a guy who was left a plot of land near where I used to live. It couldn't be built on as there was some local bylaw or something. It was pretty worthless
Basically it was flat land near a station. Then fly tippers started dumping concrete on it.
Instead of wingeing he got a load more concrete on it. Crushed it and spread it across the land.
Fenced off the perimeter and started charging cars £5 a day to park there (station car park was £8).
Soon he had 200 cars a day on there.

Roll on 10 years, he has 7 other station car parks exactly the same. You do the sums. £££££££££££'s

The other I'll keep to myself for now. As I don't know anyone doing it yet.

Would it work in New Zealand Mark ?

The station one may. The other definitely would.

 

[D Walker]

Hmm, food for thought,
Think the station thing needs target areas in the deep dark North, I have capital for the other if you want to share offline !!!

And potentially time, or we can chat at Le Mans in something like 67 days....

 

[philw696]

Not many Railway stations in NZ not got many motorway' we're still a developing country

 

[Wack61]

He actually "invented" tax and MOT reminders that you could put in your car where your tax disc holder was, he sold them online for £2/3 a go, the rest is as you say !!!

Ok , so he sold them on a computer , I knew it was something to do with a computer

It does show you there's still things out there that need inventing .