Having been made redundant from the building industry at the end of December I decided that this was my opportunity to do something I WANTED to do. I’ve always loved taking things to bits and repairing them, and I’ve said for a long time that I’m not sure weather I prefer riding bikes or fixing them, and I’d known for years that this was what I’d do if I ever got the chance…..
So, I set about the task of visiting 25-30 bike shops and asking for jobs, leaving CVs, and applying for EVERY single job that came up within a 30 mile road radius of home.
I also took on servicing work for friends as a means of learning more (which I did) and self funded my Cytech 2 qualification, (which I loved doing)

And today it paid off, as I signed of the dotted line for a job at The Bike Company in Staines. 🙂 (they have another branch in Windsor)
To be honest I couldn’t wish for a nicer bunch of people to work with, too. I start next Tuesday.

And also, today, I had a random phone call from Andy at The Purple Bike Shed looking for an occasional freelance mechanic.
It never rains but it pours! 🙂

Ask me again in a year if I made the right decision, OK? But right now I’ve got this massive cheesy grin. 😀

Well done fella. I too have some good job news, it’s a nice feeling.

Oh good news. I hope that they were impressed by the reputation of your famous fork servicing guides.

Always nice to have good news

nice one mate, congratulations. Have fun.

Nice one! good luck with it 🙂

Good work PP. Booyakasha!

Well done ;0)

Congratulations and best of luck

Good news mate (i’m the guy who brought the Carrera hybrid from you)

Andy Guerin is a top bloke too, you’ll enjoy working with him

Congratulations-I know the feeling as I started at one of my new local LBS’s last week after a year out of the trade.
Still self employed as well, but nice to top things up when it’s quiet.
Great business to be in, even if the money isn’t the best

Well done, sounds like beer o-clock 🙂

Good luck

Get a job you enjoy doing and and never work another day.

congrats!
what’s the staff discount like?

Well done, sounds like beer o-clock

Damn straight. 🙂

Oh good news. I hope that they were impressed by the reputation of your famous fork servicing guides.

Well, I showed those to East St Cycles and didn’t get the job….. 😉

I’l be bringing in my C456 for a replacement headset forthwith 🙂
Enjoy the new job.

Paid in XTR?

Nice one.

Will you be riding that lovely Explosif to work?

well done and good luck 😀

Don’t let them ask you to do the peg board for the tools.

Well done, too 🙂

hi 5.

😀

Congratulations !, good stuff 😀

Now, get back to work, oh, and we all want discount with your shop now !
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Nice one! Enjoy

Bike company?
Is that west side or east side? 😀

Always nice to hear good news on the job front. Congratulations, enjoy.

Good stuff.

I quite enjoyed my time working in a bike shop. Get to know the reps if you can…they’re always good for extra special deals, especially on old stock (i got the last Demo 9 Spesh had left and got a cracking deal on it) or if they have something new to push (our Sram rep gave us a massive discount on some X0 stuff when it first came out).

I’l be bringing in my C456 for a replacement headset forthwith
Enjoy the new job.

You can forget that! Actually, they do have a vice, so maybe…… 😉

Nice one.

Will you be riding that lovely Explosif to work?

Sadly it’s a bit too far for that, but I’ll probably get a road bike at some point… **shock-horror**

Nice one Peter!

Well done. Friends of mine own those shops – great place to work.

GB

nice one 🙂

I start next Tuesday.

How exactly did they phrase that?

Great new Peter, what is even better is none of your customers now need see the gawd awful mess you made of spraying you peg board 😉
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should have been blue any way 😀

Good for you, it’s nice to hear a bit of good news on here.

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Well done, hard work pays off!

Great news, PP! Clearly my advice was the key element in your success…! 😉

Good news, well done that man! 😀

Great new Peter, well done,

I was made redundant in Dec. too.

Been doing some none paid voluntary work for the local parks & woodlands, loving it, today I got the wink to apply for a job too 😉

Yoooohoooo well done Peter 😀

PP you have a super reputation on here for sound fixing advice and huge congratulations.

Congrats PP, fair play for making a big change in life. How was the cytech course? I’m thinking of doing it myself, what level did you do?