Unusual And Curious Ideas That Can Take Your Plans For A New Business In A Brand New Direction
Jobs are boring , right ? Well there are some people out there who love bookkeeping , updating spreadsheets and the company process for revising the minutia of last months meeting on the importance of indexing the archives in reverse order according to the Gregorian calendar. Or operating metal cutting machines on the night shift at the weekend with only a one armed robot for company.
We aren’t all brain surgeons , TV newsmen or professional racing drivers . It’s likely that the day job, whatever it may be , is just a little bit boring some of the time. Or it could be that it’s incredibly hum drum all of the time. Is it time to think of going it alone with a new business ? Well it’s possible . I mean, life’s too short to waste a good proportion of it washing pots or altering dresses , selling underpants or whatever your current job happens to be!
A couple of Franchise For Sale opportunities spring to mind here :-
1. Kirsty’s Horses. This is a Home Based Franchise which involves , of all things , horse sitting for horse owners whilst they are , for a time , unable to care for their horse or horses. It’s easy to see the potential behind this Franchises system as horses have requirements the same as other pets, but presumably on a different and much bigger scale to cat and dogs and if you have ever had to sort out the family pet while you go on holiday you can visualise that this issue is multiplied many times when dealing with a horse!
2. Another offering on the Franchise For Sale market is 10 Little Pigs franchise. This somewhat novel Franchises system is more of an investment than a straightforward franchise. It entails investing in a pig husbandery operation in Thailand. The idea is that they raise quality pigs on their local farms in Thailand and according to their website www.10littlepigs.com there is more demand than they can currently deal with. They offer this Franchise For Sale in two flavours . One where you remain in the UK and a second format where you up sticks and move to Thailand, their Good Life franchise, which makes this one positively not a Home Based Franchise unless you buy a new property in Thailand.
3. Mobile dog washing Franchises are unexpectedly common , well at least there is more than one around. I suppose this is something of a tribute to the format that this form of franchise employs . But Britain has many millions of dogs and people are prepared to expend alarming amounts of money on their pets’ welfare and this includes washing . One for dog lovers only, I’m afraid.
4. Becoming a Racing Trader. It is possible , with the advent on Online Trading Exchanges such as Betfair etc to trade on a sporting event in much the same way as a city trader trades on the price of oil going up and down, for example. All you really need is a Betfair account, a piece of software that will allow you to make your trades and an hard as nails constitution as you will be trading with your own money in real time. You may currently have fingernails and hair at the start but you can pretty well guarantee that by the time you have learnt your trade your fingernails will have been chewed down to the quick and your hair will have been ripped out. Most trading is done on the Pre Race betting in British Horse Racing on Betfair. The market is attracting millions per race and idea is to back your chosen horse to win at a high price , say 3.00 European odds and then lay the horse at a lower figure , say 2.00. You then get to pocket the difference (1.00) multiplied by your stake. If you get it wrong then you get to owe the difference multiplied by your stake. Simple. So why aren’t we all doing it. You need nerves of steel and a constitution that allows you to run your wins and forget about your losses and the ability to sit in front of a computer in a state of raised tension for a number of hours most afternoons.
All in all it just goes to show you that the day job doesn’t in fact have to be boring .
