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To be clear, that was
“I’ll do most of the work, on a day rate” aka he does the admin, and organises the job while I do the actual work on site. Suits me just fine, even if the day rate is a bit slender. And he’ll come out of it better than I do financially. But work is work and cash is cash.It’ll be a couple years until I can join a competent person scheme
Nef-
I found this a pretty big hurdle. I'm not going to get further into installing consumer units and designing circuits. I might have liked to years ago but now it's just too brutal in comparison with my other work.
I struggle to make time for the small pieces and I'm so used to joining bigger stuff together I find it difficult to scale down! I am very busy on home renovations at the moment, just had to tidy up a shower I built nearly 20 years ago. It reminded me of a lot of my struggles back then.
Airhead
This was my preferred way to be employed when I was learning to price jobs. I'd always write out a quote for the work I'd be doing then compare it to what I'd actually done at the end of the job.