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yes you can say what you want but you lot have gone for the throat on this i just think all she wanted was advice on what her next move was and i think sometimes you can and others on here can be a little corse with your words yes you sure have put your opion across very clear god help anyone that works forom home when i was out of work i did my friend wedding from home does that make me a shit florist!!! are you saying to me that none of you before you had your shops none of you did any work at home through yourselves!!!!!

would like she isn't doing it yet!!!

Of course everyone's entitled to their opinions, be a very dull place if we all agreed 100%

Out of interest tho, before you got your shops PMF and Rosa; how many private jobs did you do for mates weddings, gifts etc?

I spent 3 years in college and 4 years in a florist. Went straight from work to open my shop. Never did any work from home, i apprieciated the expertise and knowledge required to do justice to any orders.

i know that question wasnt adressed to me but i worked full time in a shop for 3 1/2 years before i got my first shop, and in that time the only work i did out of the shop was my grandparents funeral.


I actually bought the flowers from the shop i worked in though, never tried to wangle my way into the wholesalers.

Still after those years, i still didnt feel over confident when it was my own shop.

Tree i think you should get more proper shop experience, work full time somewhere for at least a couple of years before buying a shop, gives you more experience with pricing, etc, 2 college students, (well newly qualified) opened a shop near us, and they had closed it within 6 months.

well i have done it i hold my hands up i went to college i have nvq1 and 2 city and guilds 3 and also passed the practical in icsf i worked in different florists all over cheshire i have done friends weddings at home with the knowledge of my bosses who i have always asked first and none have had a problem maybe thats as i worked in the next town to myself i don't know but i have so am a bad florist!!

i do agree a few years in a shop is really helpful i have atually 16 years experiebce before i got mine but didn't have the finances to do it earlier i also bought from the flower shops i worked for

I went to college for 2 years, worked in shops whilst doing that, started the ball rolling to buying my shop while I was at college, worked in other shops while that went through.

see now here's my thoughts, ok fair enough you've decided to have kids i.e. your choice, knowing you have to give something up to bring them up - again muchos respectos - however... I don't understand why, rather than become a kitchen sinker, people don't just try for a part-time job in floristry. Kitchen sinkers are detrimental to the floristry industry as a whole. Yes there are the not so good ones, which really give floristry a bad name, but then the others which fair enough might be good, but they are still able to undercut the professional florists with a shop therefore pushing them out of business.

I'm not saying that every florist with a shop will be affected, but it really isn't fair on the small businesses.

I think it's good that people come on here and ask for advice and it's good for them to see both sides of the equation not all the nicey nicey do this, do that, here you go.

I'm sure Sharon is mature enough to see this and appreciates everyones comments, whether they be postive or negative. Life isn't all sugarcubes and cake.

Tree i think you should get more proper shop experience, work full time somewhere for at least a couple of years before buying a shop, gives you more experience with pricing, etc, 2 college students, (well newly qualified) opened a shop near us, and they had closed it within 6 months.[/quote]

Thanks Elouise, that's why I'm so cautious about making sure I do it right. Financially, could buy a shop 'tomorrow' but know that's not for me without the experience.