Just something for the artisans out there who are doing things outside of their remit to think about.
I was doing stuff that I wasn't registered to do too (most artisans stray a wee bit) but for one reason or another I need to be almost bullet proof now sooo, with dread in my heart started what I thought was going to be a process akin to climbing a mountain barefoot. How wrong I was.
The Ch de Met have been unbelievably helpful....working on the premise that truth conquers all I just hit them with the 'difficulties' I've had over the last three or four months and boy did they work hard to find solutions to how I want to re-shape my business...and they provided the coffee too! The head of the Ch de Met has even asked me to do an exhibition in their attached showroom.
Before I had the right to do practically anything I wanted to with wood, now I've added a variety of other activities which encompass the things I do associated to renovations (none of it structural) and exterior works associated with landscape and it's associated activities; including parks & gardens and tree surgery.
The only thing that has made me chuckle is the tree surgery that I've added to my remit....I can climb the hooogest tree I want to, carry out complex and dangerous reduction/dismantling operations back to the main stem....carve a totem into the stem, section it off to ground level even, but I'm not allowed to actually fell the stem in one! Apparently I have to go & see maf about that...weird.
Don't be afraid to level with the authorities and take them on, I personally have folk just waiting for the opportunity to stick a knife in my back, sleeping at night has got to be a better option than parking the truck out of sight and worrying about the jungle drums?
I don't plan to be earning enough to justify an accountant val, I'm tired of chasing after money, life comes first now. Thanks for the advice anyhow.
Cheers Clair.
shawny wrote:But there should never be a battle with either of the chambres, they are there for you, the very reason for them even being there is to help anyone wishing to register, or who has registered already
There shouldn't be shawny, I agree, but there often is, especially if you don't fall within the guidlines, or you pick a fontionnaire on a bad day or even someone who is prejudiced against the British here...it happens.
Chris Head wrote: shawny wrote:But there should never be a battle with either of the chambres, they are there for you, the very reason for them even being there is to help anyone wishing to register, or who has registered already There shouldn't be shawny, I agree, but there often is, especially if you don't fall within the guidlines, or you pick a fontionnaire on a bad day or even someone who is prejudiced against the British here...it happens.
Or you approach the situation in the belief that you are in for a battle. Isn't it called a "Self-fulfilling Prophecy".
Always better to start with an open mind, in my view..........................
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I hear you GM, thanks...good life lessons though eh?
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