What Should I Do For Work?

[ClownLurch]

Haha, I'm down in the South East! I've let a couple friends know though, and maybe just slightly hinted at the idea that they should come and pay me a visit... Maybe even selling a tank to them would be nice!

I’m in the SE myself. OK then, north of the Thames or south. I’m not going south of the river at this time of night btw.

 

[ClownLurch]

@PlasticGalaxy , I'd love to support your shop too, but the commute is prohibitive.

Besides various medical and dental offices, we have a Mexican restaurant (livebearers and cichlids!), a Thai restaurant with an awful aquarium (I'm a bit of a specialist in Thai fish and plants), a casino restaurant on the Indian Reservation that cries out for a native fish tank...so many fun challenges. The only trouble is that I find it very distressing when something goes wrong in a clients tank. Problems that I would face with a shrug and "do the best I can" attitude in my own tanks, become a major crisis when I'm getting paid to do it for someone else. Pesky work ethic.

So, I'd have to learn to be a bit more relaxed and have fun with it. I like making people happy, and fish definitely do!

Go for it (As we used to say in the 80s). It’s best to regret the things you’ve done not the things you haven’.t. Etc.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Go for it (As we used to say in the 80s). It’s best to regret the things you’ve done not the things you haven’.t. Etc.

I might eventually. I still have a few years before I can retire, and there's no way I could do this much fish business while teaching full time and raising a daughter. But yeah, it's on the someday list.

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

I’m in the SE myself. OK then, north of the Thames or south. I’m not going south of the river at this time of night btw.

South - Kent, land of the posh-knobs and shockingly high rent.
I start on Sunday as a sort of trial, but hopefully I'll be properly working there by next week.

 

[ClownLurch]

South - Kent, land of the posh-knobs and shockingly high rent.
I start on Sunday as a sort of trial, but hopefully I'll be properly working there by next week.

If it’s anywhere near where Tonbridge Angels play football im gonna be in the market for a a Medaka discount soon?

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

If it’s anywhere near where Tonbridge Angels play football im gonna be in the market for a a Medaka discount soon?

Not a clue. Nearer the Gillingham area than anything else, without directly giving away my town name.

 

[ClownLurch]

Not a clue. Nearer the Gillingham area than anything else, without directly giving away my town name.

I’m only kidding about discounts.....or am I?

 

[ClownLurch]

Do you sell Medaka or Heterandria Formosa? .......and so it starts!

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

I’m only kidding about discounts.....or am I?

Haha, I hope you are! I don't think they'd like it very much if their newest employee just started giving away discounts!

 

[ClownLurch]

Haha, I hope you are! I don't think they'd like it very much if their newest employee just started giving away discounts!

Buy 6 get half a fish free?

 

[Essjay]

Once you've settled in - no rocking the boat in your first week - here's a suggestion for your boss.
Most fish shops price fish as so much for one fish or a bit less than 5 times that for 5 fish. That encourages people to buy just 5 shoaling fish. My favourite shop prices fish as so much each or 10% off if you buy 5 or more. This means that if I buy 8 fish, all 8 get a discount not just the first 5.
It doesn't have to be 10%, it could be any % the boss wants.