The Medway Handyman wrote:

Just an idea. Is there much involved in PAT testing?

Yes, a shedload of marketing work. If you can land yourself a regular
gig with a local college / large office etc. then you're laughing.
Otherwise it's a near full-time job to bring in enough work to keep you
busy. There are plenty of "PAT test specialists" around these days,
which usually means a clueless herbert with a logoed-up car (or huge
4x4, oddly) and the idiot's manual clenched firmly in the other hand.

OTOH, the tester is affordable and the two relevant courses are cheap
and commonplace at any tech college. A trained monkey can do them. One
of the faults of PAT testing is that it's dumbed down so that chimps
can indeed cope.

I would hate the idea of "being a PAT tester" all day. If you're
already trotting around suitable premises (i.e. moderately large
commercial, as no-one else bothers) then it could be a useful
profit-making sideline to a more interesting job. Do the sums first
though, and see just how much you could expect to make.

Record rip-off I've seen so far was £20 / item being charged to small
traders for testing by the "official" testing provider for the market.
Now that deal just _stank_ of back-handers.