How many hours do you work?
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ACEparts_com said:
Just curious to hear about the working lives of others...
I tend to stoll down to my office (at home) at 9am (3 days a week I start at 11.30am) - stay till 2pm
2-7pm I spend with family
7pm - midnight back in the office
Weekends 9-10am and 7pm -
That must be the reason that you don't return customers calls, your too busy..!I tend to stoll down to my office (at home) at 9am (3 days a week I start at 11.30am) - stay till 2pm
2-7pm I spend with family
7pm - midnight back in the office
Weekends 9-10am and 7pm -
stevieb said:
I am based in the office for 40hours a week but usually end up taking work home and at the moment currently working 60-70 hours a week.. To keep the office afloat!
Dear oh dear.There is such a thing as the work / life balance.
60-70 hours a week doing work means other parts
of your life suffer [ wife, kids, social life].
Me, I work as hard as I can for forty hours
a week and then go home.
If I can't fit it into forty hours a week,
it gets given to someone else or doesn't
get done.
Depending on the type of work you do,
there is the case that you get tired and
make mistakes, which are more expensive
to fix than getting it right first time,
because you are fresh.
dcb said:
stevieb said:
I am based in the office for 40hours a week but usually end up taking work home and at the moment currently working 60-70 hours a week.. To keep the office afloat!
Dear oh dear.There is such a thing as the work / life balance.
60-70 hours a week doing work means other parts
of your life suffer [ wife, kids, social life].
Me, I work as hard as I can for forty hours
a week and then go home.
If I can't fit it into forty hours a week,
it gets given to someone else or doesn't
get done.
Depending on the type of work you do,
there is the case that you get tired and
make mistakes, which are more expensive
to fix than getting it right first time,
because you are fresh.
See my other thread
http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Like more recently i have been put on a Trainig course where i am expected to study in my own time for no pay.
Steve
Edited by stevieb on Monday 11th June 19:58
ed]I work hard at the work/life balance thing.
My business supports my life but my wife and children come first (otherwise there is little point), if I can grow the business to a sufficient degree then their lives will be better, if I screw it up then their lives will probably be worse..
To that end I try to work normalish hours in the office (5 miles form home), sort of 8 till 5:30, however there are usually a few early starts a week for meetings. I am however able to work remotely so I have a laptop and phone for email which means I can always do stuff, by being able to easily keep ontop of things whilst playing with the children/eating/sitting in the pub etc, it keeps the pressure off by letting me respond to stuff that needs me whilst letting me enjoy life.
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My business supports my life but my wife and children come first (otherwise there is little point), if I can grow the business to a sufficient degree then their lives will be better, if I screw it up then their lives will probably be worse..
To that end I try to work normalish hours in the office (5 miles form home), sort of 8 till 5:30, however there are usually a few early starts a week for meetings. I am however able to work remotely so I have a laptop and phone for email which means I can always do stuff, by being able to easily keep ontop of things whilst playing with the children/eating/sitting in the pub etc, it keeps the pressure off by letting me respond to stuff that needs me whilst letting me enjoy life.
D
im disabled so had to give up real work about 4 years ago, for my new buisness venture i start work at about 5am when i wake up and turn my laptop on, takes about an hour, ive started putting a few hours in during the day as well now, but ive designed my buisness so it is operable from a mobile phone, laptop and armchair, im taking a unit for testing within the next few weeks, as the boss i think im entitled to company "jollies" and have booked a weeks testing to do involving a 60ft twin diesel motor boat, the costa del sol and lots of aimless motoring about the med, im off to buy some new fishing gear to take this afternoon, the boat is provided for free with a pilot, my return airfair is £80, and the guy with the boat will want to buy my product at the end of the week, life is getting sweeter by the day, but im 38 years old, have spent the last 4 years in severe clinical pain and very depressed, previously to that i worked 60 hrs a week as an engineer, 6 days a week.
>How many hours do you work?
As many as I can get away with, probably 80+ most weeks. It is hard with a wife and a 4 year old and sometimes I feel like a w*nker but I am much happier now than I was being employed.
I am hoping to spend 3 or so years building up the business to then take a step back and let someone else take over.
Easier said than done!
As many as I can get away with, probably 80+ most weeks. It is hard with a wife and a 4 year old and sometimes I feel like a w*nker but I am much happier now than I was being employed.
I am hoping to spend 3 or so years building up the business to then take a step back and let someone else take over.
Easier said than done!
V8 EOL - Rich said:
>How many hours do you work?
As many as I can get away with, probably 80+ most weeks. It is hard with a wife and a 4 year old and sometimes I feel like a w*nker but I am much happier now than I was being employed.
I am hoping to spend 3 or so years building up the business to then take a step back and let someone else take over.
Easier said than done!
This could've been written by me! As many as I can get away with, probably 80+ most weeks. It is hard with a wife and a 4 year old and sometimes I feel like a w*nker but I am much happier now than I was being employed.
I am hoping to spend 3 or so years building up the business to then take a step back and let someone else take over.
Easier said than done!
(Except maybe the w*nker bit! 
)I'd love to downsize, but I can't see any logical way of doing it at the moment. The demand is there, and many times it's "but you did the last job for this client so you have to do the next one, we'll lose the contract if we can't get you to do the work." Another problem is that I don't have time to source other translators to subcontract work (and even if I did, it's not really ethical for a freelance translator to sub work to others, although I know it does happen).
I absolutely dread sending out sets of invoices or mailings to tell people I'll be out of the office, simply because it reminds so many people I'm here, and then I end up inundated with mails which it takes me all day to answer, so compounding the problem...
Still. I'd much rather complain about having too much work, instead of having the time to complain I don't have enough.
It's been busy ever since I first started freelancing, but this past 9 months or so have been extreme. At the moment, I'm turning down about 6 times as much work as I accept.And the moral of this tale, boys and girls, is: "when looking for a shiny new career, consider Scandinavian > English translation".
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