Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone had any experience on becoming self-employed in recent years and whether they would reccomend it?

I know that it's down to the individual but I just wanted to know roughly what they would reccomend would be needed (money wise) to pack in work and go it alone.

I'm 26 and I've been in the A/C trade for 10 years, I've done installations and service and breakdowns so I have a wide skill set ( not blowing my own trumpet )

I know I would be pretty much guaranteed work with my current company as a subby at least to start with, a) because they always seem to employ ex employees as subbys and b) one of my good mates is the installation project manager who would give me the work (obviously not unlimited)

I've asked sub contractors I've met what they think and I can never really get an answer, it's either oh you shouldn't do it if you've got a mortgage or yeh it's fine.

I'd appreciate any advice anyone can give me,

Thanks,

Danny