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Jordan messed up massively by laying you off, he's actually done you a massive favor, when you were at Artisan you were perfect to help teach the apprentices i hope in the future business starts to build I how get your own apprentice sorry got redundant from Artisan Electrics but nice to see you have setting up on my own with Faultless Electrical Services

nice one john! both yourself and cory's vids are sooo much better than the artisan ones! not constant sell sell sell, more like here it is... its real 😁 glad you kept going, it'd been terrible if you had called it! im sub'd 😁

john, i made it to the end... i am glad you came to the light side, being self employed for me was a no brainer, i HATE being told how to do my job by people. Yes the paperwork (ok laptop work) can be hard... butlike you said in this video, you can make space for your own life, 'not booking stuff in at kid picking up time' for example... and ... BONUS, you can do certs at the pub, they have free wifi ;) (and sadly not free beer)... colleague and i literally say to each other in front of customers 'ok see you at the office' :D

I thought those meter tail weirdnesses were only done to prevent tampering. But you being ex-DNO would know better... never knew they were used to just be lazy. Always makes me laugh to see '1, 2, 3, 4' on meter tails.... it's like 'the big hand is pointing to12...'

Dewalt crew represent, My dewalt 18v drill outperforms my colleague's 22v hilti.... at the cost of wrists :D

CIS is a fucking nightmare, i won't touch it anymore

Thank you John for your honesty and authenticity

oddly i have mostly been employed, and the 5pm thing has annoyed me a lot... i want to finish the job, i've been out till 10pm, to have the next day off lol

we don't do lax payment terms. Due on completion. 7 days is overdue. 14 days 10% admin charge and 10% for every further 14 days. estate agents get hit by that, as they like to do 28 days it's on the document you agreed to, pay it, bitch

C3 for type AC if they were ok at time of installation

Good luck sir! Gave up with Artisan with the constant clickbait and "world worst" crap. Good luck to you.

John you are a legend mate, and kudos to you for not bearing a grudge. Re getting rid of waste, point1, GET A LOWER TIER WASTE CARRIER LICENSE (wastecarriersregistration.service.gov.uk/) it's free metal scrap, easy to get rid of, cardboard... if not too much and you still have the personal car, local tip... if not find a local paper recycler. other stuff.... befriend other trades... they will let you know what skips are in the area that you can use. I realize youprobably already figured most of this out. but waste carrier's licence is essential (again, it's free) Also don't sweat the tax, its actually pretty simple

Top man, glad to see you going well. Started out on my own 18 months ago. Difficult at the beginning but do good work and the clients come back. Getting easier all the time.

Much prefer yours and Corys content now you've set out by yourselves. Genuine lads with a wealth of knowledge that we appreciate you sharing with us. Keep up the great work and keep your head high!

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WHY redundant ?? Has Artisan gone pop ?? I stopped following him a while ago - just didn't like the lick bait channel & not bread & butter jobs Hope you make a go of it mate - Its hard to start but WE all make mistakes & rip ourselves off - you will soon get into the swing of priceng & tax

John, that's a brilliant video and a great journey you've been on. I'm delighted to see you doing so well. One thing I'd suggest if you're not already doing it - when you talked about tax and mentioned keeping photos of all the receipts on your laptop - I would use Dropbox or Google Drive or something like that to store all your data online as well, so if the laptop goes bye bye (they all do at some stage) you don't lose all your records. Especially because of the 5 year tax thing, but also it makes them accessible from your phone, etc. which can be very useful. Cheers and best of luck for the future!

Well done John,looking forward to following your journey 👊

Jordan's lose, he had a great spark. But then we would not be here.....!! Looking forward to your adventures.

How did he decide who stayed and who was for the chop???

Why is the Artisan guy called Jordan when that isnt his real name?

Even though you knew that underground board was isolated may be wise to not show conductors and fingers in same picture in case someone who does not know better does it to a live one.

Lost count 😂 💰 💰 💰

I didn’t realise, Jordan only grew his beard to make up for the loss of you. However his beard is pathetic

Buy the light buy the shite, meaning the box it came in belongs to the customer as well 😂 PS I think Artisan “Jordon” is right up his own ass.

Subscribed to help the channel, unsubscribed from Artisan as it’s boring not

Bit long but I'm going to stick with it 😂

Great training videos John. The historical perspective is essential for those new to electrical installation.

You are well shot of Jordan.

A few times in your videos you've said that it isn't that entertaining, well to us sparks that don't do this every day it is, and besides, I've seen loads of videos where the job comes second to making videos look like documentaries. You videos are brilliant, and the depth you put in to your explainations are exactly what is missing in most electricians videos. Keep up the good work.

Great watch thank you for sharing your journey to date.

I’m an ex sparky and liked watching you when you were on AEs vids. Loved the banter. Loving your progression so far. I’ve only admiration and respect for ya and what you’re doing.

I'm the other way, I've always been self employed. Once you're set up you'll never go back to employment. You cant put a price on the freedom it gives you. My recommendation. Once work is regularly coming in dont book in anything for Fridays. Use Monday - Thursday for scheduled work. Make sure you're charging enough to cover your time on the Friday. Fridays for me are any of the following: Paperwork, quotations, finishing jobs that may have overrun, callouts or little jobs that come in during the week. Basically anything you don't want to do in the evening. It's all part of the job at the end of the day. Nothing worse than it taking precious family time away from you!

Did you feel the same way about Jordan? And do you know what happened to Rhuben?

Love your videos and honesty keep going mate,been self employed for 36 years the easy days are when you are inundated with work and not looking for work, you will get there good luck

Get a recommendation of an accountant. Then you will know your obligations and tax liabilities and what you can legitimately claim.

Only 3 minutes in. Why was you made redundant. All I’ve seen of Artisan is money, money, money, flash vans, the EV charger specialists and EasyJet style recruitment days for more staff.

Instant sub - I was wondering how you were doing. This was a real honest video, unlike a certain other channel and all the better for it. It's like an electrican "unplugged" (pun intended) from all the glitzy nonsense. Thoms Nagy is the OG and is finally back, but he's all about highways work now, so I'm only watching him for old time's sake. Nick Bundy churns out the videos but has said he has ADHD and is clearly quite manic in his videos. Both of those channels are still infinitely better than you-know-who's. Please cut the swearing - my family watch TH-cam on our television. I assume you do not swear in front of your own family. Thank you.

Thank you for the video. Good luck on your journey. Looking forward to the next video.

Big up brother!

Such a desperate influencer 😊

Jordon living abroad surely has to be for tax reasons???

Hi John, brilliant that your up and running again, your a brilliant electrician mate. Please spend a bit of quality time to sort out the garage and the van, as you'll end up spending wasted time "hunting" for stuff constantly. Looking forward to your video's. As you say you've had the push you needed and you'll thrive moving forward. Alex.

Keep your head up John love your videos 👍🏼❤

John, you're not an influencer in my mind. You're a sparkie and that's why I watch. Bless you brother and hang in there.

Wave goodbye to solar and EV crap. Back to being a proper tradesman, good luck.

Kia Ora and greetings from New Zealand - does the UK not have recyle centres ? in nz most of the " rubbish " would gladly be accepted even the rusted out metal and yes - it took me abit to find your channel as like someone else said AE didnt give any shoutouts but they sure did for cory. and have to say i think jordan did you a favor as theres only so many solar / car chargers that you can do ... and at best Watch. its nice to have some variety and yours and cory's style of teaching is great whereas jordan seems dull and boring and while he tries he just seems to come across as another salesman PLEASE dont ever end up like that :) Kia Kaha

I stopped watching the AE channel a long time ago but I'll happily watch the channels of everyone that no longer works for that twat (particularly Cory's channel).

Well done John, keep plugging away at it buddy and you'll get where you want to be. The quality of your work speaks for itself. Say thank you to Jordan if you see him he did you a favour, you look a whole lot less stressed now.

While Jordan messed up massively by laying you off, he's actually done you a massive favour, as it means you're not stuck with his sinking ship while he goes abroad non-stop. What frustrated me more was I only found out about your channel a couple of weeks ago. No one at AE has shouted out your channel or anything.