Well yesterday was the last day in the motor trade for me. I finished work at 5.30pm and will never look back!
I have been in the trade for over 14 years now and have qualified as both a Super bike Technition and car tech. I started working for a small courier company as a ‘boy’ and within 2 years i had worked up through to head tech and then up too workshop manager and finally on to be Fleet manager of 50 motorcyles and 20 cars. That was by the age of 20 !
I then ventured out and opened a bussines with my father and aquired many big contracts for large courier companies and made a massive success of things. Unforetunately my dad was better at spending that earning… so one day he told me he had enough and ‘gave’ the bussiness too me. I was well chuffed till 2 months later when all the debt collectors started knocking on the door. He had passed me the hot coal with 10’s of thousands of debt. I eventually sorted that all out but had to fold the bussiness and get a job again.
I then worked for a massive Super Bike import company and specialised in Preping all the Super bikes as well as all the race bikes we sponsored. Once again i worked up to Workshop manager within about 6 months and had several other companies fighting for me…
At that stage i was really getting frustrated knowing how well i was doing for all these bosses and how in demand i was with the local bike comunity. Im still currently President of a the Full Bore MC bike club in SA with aprox 35 memebers in its Durban Chapter. I decided the only way was to take the plung again and get a workshop going. I had started to dabble a load more in cars and decided the next w/shop would be cars and bikes.
I opened a large warehouse premises with a mate and between us we ran fully equiped workshop speciallising in bikes, cars AND earth moving equip. We worked on all the mining dump truck’s and diggers etc as well as working on rally cars for a company called ‘TransAxle’ and a few others. This was a massive success and i had everything i could wish for.
I gave this all up 5 years ago to move over here with my wife. I sold the bussiness , house, all my cars (about 5) a massive collection of SuperBikes etc. We arrived in the UK and i could not get a decent paying job in the bike trade. I started at Toyota as a service advisor but again soon worked up to workshop manager. My wife also decided at this particularly ■■■■ time in my life she would have an affair with her boss and leave me. Toyota had got worse and was a total sinking ship and i duly abandoned ship and fled to VW. I have since worked for 2 seperate VW’s and have just left the last one yesterday.
The reason is simple. Im moving to Kent with my family next w/end and am no longer prepared to work rediculous hours and w/ends. I have got a job as a boiler engineer with Emma’s dad and will work 8-5 Mon to Fri only.
So after that long speech (thanks to those who bothered to read it all). I have woken up this morning feeling like the weight of the world is off my shoulders and no longer work for ■■■■■■■ anymore. I have worked for 3 really miserable shitty companies for the last 5 years and have been on a slow and constant downhill decent of feeling down and depressed/tired etc due to always been short staffed and my having to do 3 peoples jobs to keep things afloat.
I am seriously high on sheer pleasure of spending a f*&king Sat with Emma (first one this year :shock: :shock: !!!)and able to go to the meet today at the Cotswolds… So watch out world…Here I come 
