jamsam
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am i mad?since working for the festsival full time ive been thinking about ways to carry on this kind of work without falling into the corporate trap. i know i can carry on as self employed and work from home, but what do i do i the lean months? ive been asked by a few village shows to do some admin which would be great but it would have to be done in the same time of year as all the festivals.
im seriously considering setting up as a festival trader, selling childrens essentials. ive been to many many festivals and never found a stall selling the things mums always forget to bring ( colouring books, teddy, wet wipes and the such).
so i suppose my dilema is, A) carry on doing a desk bound job but working for myself with the view to expansion and world domination. Pros: work from home, nice view, get the summer off. Cons:constant battle for quiet, family think im doing a crappy job!
or B)ditch the desk job next year, set up small busines, buy stock and van, travel europe trading at festivals. Pros: fun! spend time with the boys, nice tan. Cons: school, the possibility of crap money, geting rained out, never going to a festival as a punter again!
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boisdevie1
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Re: am i mad? | jamsam wrote: | | ive been to many many festivals and never found a stall selling the things mums always forget to bring ( colouring books, teddy, wet wipes and the such). |
Could I just point out that childcare should involve BOTH parents. It's not just the responsibility of mums to think of these things.
Bois (who has changed plenty of nappes)
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jamsam
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sorry...i do forget men are involved !!!
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marigold
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Re: am i mad? | boisdevie1 wrote: | | jamsam wrote: | | ive been to many many festivals and never found a stall selling the things mums always forget to bring ( colouring books, teddy, wet wipes and the such). |
Could I just point out that childcare should involve BOTH parents. It's not just the responsibility of mums to think of these things.
Bois (who has changed plenty of nappes) |
Well bois, you may have been the PERFECT shared-parenter but in my observations nappy-changing appears to work like something like this:
Mum buys nappies, creams, wipes, tissues etc that are necessary for the job
Mum changes 100 nappies and no-one bats an eyelid
Dad changes one nappy (preferably when there's an audience) and the world gasps "Fred is SO marvelous - look HE CHANGED A NAPPY!!"
Dad struts around proudly enjoying his role as New Man while Mum quietly clears away the dirty nappy, the clean nappy that had to be discarded because the tapes got messed up and wouldn't stick, 17 used wipes and 23 used tissues and makes a mental note to buy more bum-cream... 
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Mary-Jane
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Re: am i mad? | marigold wrote: | ...in my observations nappy-changing appears to work like something like this:
Mum buys nappies, creams, wipes, tissues etc that are necessary for the job
Mum changes 100 nappies and no-one bats an eyelid
Dad changes one nappy (preferably when there's an audience) and the world gasps "Fred is SO marvelous - look HE CHANGED A NAPPY!!"
Dad struts around proudly enjoying his role as New Man while Mum quietly clears away the dirty nappy, the clean nappy that had to be discarded because the tapes got messed up and wouldn't stick, 17 used wipes and 23 used tissues and makes a mental note to buy more bum-cream... |
Ditto barbecues!
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Northern_Lad
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Re: am i mad? | Mary-Jane wrote: | | marigold wrote: | ...in my observations nappy-changing appears to work like something like this:
Mum buys nappies, creams, wipes, tissues etc that are necessary for the job
Mum changes 100 nappies and no-one bats an eyelid
Dad changes one nappy (preferably when there's an audience) and the world gasps "Fred is SO marvelous - look HE CHANGED A NAPPY!!"
Dad struts around proudly enjoying his role as New Man while Mum quietly clears away the dirty nappy, the clean nappy that had to be discarded because the tapes got messed up and wouldn't stick, 17 used wipes and 23 used tissues and makes a mental note to buy more bum-cream... |
Ditto barbecues! |
You need more bum-cream after barbecues? 
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vegplot
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Re: am i mad? | Northern_Lad wrote: | | You need more bum-cream after barbecues? |
Lanolin for the burns.
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jamsam
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oi..my thread..no bum discussions..
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Soapnutter
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What they all said re blokes....
And go for the festival trail! It might be mad, but it'll be fun!
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marigold
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Could you try the festival idea during the school holidays next year to try it out? And keep on with your other job at the same time? The stall sounds like a good idea, though maybe you'd need two lines of stock in addition to basics - wet weather stuff (wellies, umbrellas etc) and hot weather stuff (sun hats, factor 25 cream)  . Clothes could be recycled stuff so needn't cost you much to buy.
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jamsam
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im having visions of having ahot side and a wet side with the essentials down the middle of a big old scout marquee!!!
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lottie
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Re: am i mad? | marigold wrote: | | boisdevie1 wrote: | | jamsam wrote: | | ive been to many many festivals and never found a stall selling the things mums always forget to bring ( colouring books, teddy, wet wipes and the such). |
Could I just point out that childcare should involve BOTH parents. It's not just the responsibility of mums to think of these things.
Bois (who has changed plenty of nappes) |
Well bois, you may have been the PERFECT shared-parenter but in my observations nappy-changing appears to work like something like this:
Mum buys nappies, creams, wipes, tissues etc that are necessary for the job
Mum changes 100 nappies and no-one bats an eyelid
Dad changes one nappy (preferably when there's an audience) and the world gasps "Fred is SO marvelous - look HE CHANGED A NAPPY!!"
Dad struts around proudly enjoying his role as New Man while Mum quietly clears away the dirty nappy, the clean nappy that had to be discarded because the tapes got messed up and wouldn't stick, 17 used wipes and 23 used tissues and makes a mental note to buy more bum-cream... |
In the interests of fairness could I say that this just aint always so although I was mostly at home with the kids when my husband was there he changed more nappies than me and the rest of it. He's just back from the U.S. where he's been in sole charge of a 10 month old and a 3 year old while their stressed out overworked parents had a well deserved holiday in Hawai---one of us had to stop livestock minding and I volunteered as at the minute my knee isn't up to chasing 3 year olds running in the road or the nearby lake.
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Chez
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Lottie's right - Arvo does more childcare than me at the moment.
Jamsam - I think you should go for B), but, if you can, in a graduated way that won't leave you and your family hung out to dry if you decide it's not for you.
I don't regret anything I've done - just stuff I haven't done, or opportunities I've not taken up.
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Jamanda
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| jamsam wrote: | | im having visions of having ahot side and a wet side with the essentials down the middle of a big old scout marquee!!! |
Sounds like a good idea. You'd have to be careful about where you put nickable stuff if it were just you in a big tent.
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vickersdc
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Only you can decide - but just make sure that you can sell enough stuff to cover fuel, transport, insurance, time, etc, etc, and also be able to put enough aside to cover the events that get cancelled through bad weather (I've just got back from Bath & West which was almost cancelled; not forgetting that Sunrise was cancelled) and even if events do run despite poor conditions, trading might be well down as fewer people turn up.
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Rob R
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Re: am i mad?
Quite possibly, though I think that is a prerequisit of wanting to work for yourself.
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Soapnutter
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Absolutely, and who says mad is a bad thing anyway.....
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jamsam
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i think i may book afew local shows and festivals for 2009 and see how it goes as a side line. I already work for myself in the admin job (which gives me the hwole of august and setember off) so it will just be another job in that sense.
im looking at vans next week so i will consider storage and transport costs while browsing!!
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