11-02-2013, 02:27 AM
Bit of a strange one I know after all I'm nearly 27 right?
Most of the day I've been sat pondering life if you will I've been unemployed for 4 years, have little or no money and pretty much no friends or family now and I'm sat here thinking about what the f*ck I'm going to do to change my life. Bit of a background on me:
I left school when I was 14 due to bullying I suffered my first nervous breakdown when I was 11 due to bullying, I had a subsequent breakdown when I was 13 again because of bullying and finally decided enough was enough when I was stabbed by one of the school bullies and they refused to do anything (He was black and his parents screamed racism!) so I gave up on school and went to a local training provider called Wheelbase in Nottingham, they taught me how to build grasstrack Mini's, how to fix and maintain cars and bikes etc. From there I went to college when I was 16 to do motor vehicle maintenance. I did this for 3 years before I decided to do something fresh I then did Photography and Multimedia at college when I was 19 loved the photography but that was it. Then I decided to help out a friend with his business and so I spent the next year as a vehicle dismantler mainly dismantling Land Rover and other 4x4's. Then when I was 21 I also did another year with another friend fixing up cars that would otherwise be scrapped, sticking them through an MOT and selling them on for a profit.
No matter what I do I always seem to go back to cars, I live for cars, I breathe cars I am a petrolhead through and through. But I am jobless and would like to work and seeing as I don't actually have many qualifications (or at least they aren't generally recognised now) I'm thinking of starting dismantling cars and selling the parts off as profit.
What does everyone reckon, is it viable? Initially if I do start I shall be doing it from my back garden for a bit (strip the shell down, scrap the shell/sell it off if straight) and probably storing the parts in a shed until sold. Once I have stripped a few cars and gotten myself a bit of profit I will then look into renting a bit of wasteland or possibly a workshop (somewhere dry to strip bits and then to store them).
Anybody any other ideas on what can be done in the motor trade without actually needing to completely re-train?
Bit long winded I know but I am determined to actually start doing something with my life!
Most of the day I've been sat pondering life if you will I've been unemployed for 4 years, have little or no money and pretty much no friends or family now and I'm sat here thinking about what the f*ck I'm going to do to change my life. Bit of a background on me:
I left school when I was 14 due to bullying I suffered my first nervous breakdown when I was 11 due to bullying, I had a subsequent breakdown when I was 13 again because of bullying and finally decided enough was enough when I was stabbed by one of the school bullies and they refused to do anything (He was black and his parents screamed racism!) so I gave up on school and went to a local training provider called Wheelbase in Nottingham, they taught me how to build grasstrack Mini's, how to fix and maintain cars and bikes etc. From there I went to college when I was 16 to do motor vehicle maintenance. I did this for 3 years before I decided to do something fresh I then did Photography and Multimedia at college when I was 19 loved the photography but that was it. Then I decided to help out a friend with his business and so I spent the next year as a vehicle dismantler mainly dismantling Land Rover and other 4x4's. Then when I was 21 I also did another year with another friend fixing up cars that would otherwise be scrapped, sticking them through an MOT and selling them on for a profit.
No matter what I do I always seem to go back to cars, I live for cars, I breathe cars I am a petrolhead through and through. But I am jobless and would like to work and seeing as I don't actually have many qualifications (or at least they aren't generally recognised now) I'm thinking of starting dismantling cars and selling the parts off as profit.
What does everyone reckon, is it viable? Initially if I do start I shall be doing it from my back garden for a bit (strip the shell down, scrap the shell/sell it off if straight) and probably storing the parts in a shed until sold. Once I have stripped a few cars and gotten myself a bit of profit I will then look into renting a bit of wasteland or possibly a workshop (somewhere dry to strip bits and then to store them).
Anybody any other ideas on what can be done in the motor trade without actually needing to completely re-train?
Bit long winded I know but I am determined to actually start doing something with my life!
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