how much money is enough?

Not high art, but stuff like Harry Potter and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals have been somewhat successful overseas. Plus a good deal of music, television programmes and the like. I'm not sure how much they actually contribute to the economy though.

why do you think they don't need funding like sciences:? the technology and equipment needed are just as expensive. It's not an oppositional thing we need science as much as arts it should not be a contest.

arts courses support fine arts as well as advertising, film, music, TV, fashion, publishing, crafts and design. they represent exports of £13billion and 1.9 million jobs and 8.2 % of GDP
yes I have googled that

I can't really think of any big science exports either.help me out

I run a conveyor car wash as a manager after buying into the franchise , and own the valeting business "a1plus valeting" that operates from the site. Also sell cheap "tat" from the cash and carry onsite, usual stuff, tyre slick, microfiber cloths etc etc, tend to only buy stuff i can double my money on, magic trees sell quite well etc etc

employ a few lads, not the most glamorous of jobs, but if you can handle the shite that customers give you day in and day out, its pretty easy work.

can get stressful as fuck when you are fully booked and the little bastards ring in sick
PITA paying your VAT and Tax bill when they arrive tho

and FWIW i dont think i could EVER go back into normal employment where i had somebody "above me"

i`m a power junkie

allready turned down an offer of a second car wash franchise from the same people as i was under staffed at the time, will probably take another site on in 2/3 years time, which will pretty much double my earnings overnight (and the stress LOL)

i would like to be on 20k a year...that'd do for a start

or if i won even 50k it'd help sort me out big style

out else would b a bonus

hey all I was trying to say was that greed is not a good thing even though it might oil the capitalist grindstone
I'm sure you are a very nice chap who gives to charity and is kind to small animals

I just got really angry after reading this story about a bloke who had brought a major company nearly to its knees and he was getting a pay off that was more than me and you will earn in our lives probably.

fuck him!! i put the hours in (was doing 72 hours a week in the first year and had 4 days off for the full year) i paid the cash upfront (approx 10k to setup properly)
i reap the rewards when the fruits arrive


some of the staff i have had in so far are not even worth min wage IMO

what i want is 4 full time staff, so any extra cash when it arrives is going to be banked for a rainy day, i put my prices up 2 weeks back by approx £5 per valet and nobody has even batted an eyelid

self employment is the king

They have them in supermarket carparks down here. Excellent idea.

not in 3 or so years time when the new environmental carwash laws come in and they need to spend shitloads of water recycling tanks

from the sketchy info i have been given, even washing your own car in your street will be illegal

i am right across the road from asda and do a roaring trade in minivalets for £20 upwards, while people do the weekly shopping

we also wash 40k cars a year through the wash itself

I never wash mine. the rain does it mostly and who cares if it's mucky as long as it goes

I take it you don't own a porsche

well it begins with p but that's as close as it gets

and where is the man in charge of farepak who lost thousands of people their xmas money at the moment?
well he's in the Alvear Palace hotel in Buenos Aires enjoying a break. the room he's in costs £2500.00 a night.
you have to hand it to these guys who work so hard building up businesses, they are crippled by taxes they really are

Id work 40 hrs a week for 500k. If i wasnt happy, with that money i would make myself happy

i would have mistresses, the lot. It would be like a party in my house every night, then back to work in the morning. Totally shagged

I think you have to do 100 hour weeks to get the 500k

you can work it. they just can't pay you for working it

If your self employed you can work it no problem
I was regularly doing 50 to 55 hours a week when i worked in the UK earlier this year.