Slowlycatchymonkey Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 15 minutes ago, Pedro said: Firstly, I am free to manage my time daily, I can go for a walk with my dog instead of "working", or take a trip while working too, I can manage during normal work load to enjoy myself when I want to. That happens because most of my profit comes out of taking opportunities that come to me, I don't need to be sitting at a desk or driving around to clients 7 hours a day, and most of my clients have been for a very long time. On the other hand, I'm expected to do the same whenever those opportunities appear, or to solve crisis when they appear, be it now, be it in June or August when I'm one day into a beach holiday week. Shit breaks out two weeks from now and I'll be sitting at a table in Merzouga looking at my laptop and asking clients not to bail out on my supplier. The part I like is that a most of them will think I'm 30km away, while a few will know I'm on the bike and tell me to fuck off in dearest way To be able to do this is cool, but never spending a week without a plan altering email popping up in the middle of your day for years is also getting old. I miss when I'd clock out to go on holidays on friday at lunch, and on saturday evening I'd be on the track car driving through France having forgotten all work things. I don't think I've ever had that clocking off thing. Well not since I was about 16 years old! Even when I worked in a hospital we were starting a business so I'd come home to more work. There's always been a completely random immediacy that's meant we have to be always contactable, plans are so often changed by what's occurring I never believe I'm going anywhere to do anything until I'm actually there doing it and even then it can stop in a instant. The very next day after my wedding... back at work because something had happened. I accept that is price I pay for what affords me a lifestyle I mostly like but I can't imagine I'll ever get to experience clocking off. Sounds nice, I'd like to try it but I'm ok with the compromise so long as it involves motorbikes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 1 minute ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said: I accept that is price I pay for what affords me a lifestyle I mostly like but I can't imagine I'll ever get to experience clocking off. Sounds nice, I'd like to try it but I'm ok with the compromise so long as it involves motorbikes I wouldn't know how to go back and looking at my week with a rigid work schedule, even more if it meant going to the office for specific times. The Covid years up until 6 or 10 months ago were the best for my work / life schedule, good times ... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Pedro said: I wouldn't know how to go back and looking at my week with a rigid work schedule, even more if it meant going to the office for specific times. The Covid years up until 6 or 10 months ago were the best for my work / life schedule, good times ... Ditto. Everyone quiet but still paying, no daily runs but the odd emergency return giving us permission to go out on a bike during lockdown on totally empty roads and bonus time with my eldest son who stayed at home for a year longer than planned. No obligation to see people I didn't really like spending time with and we had ridiculously good weather. I feel bad saying that when it was a genuinely terrible time for so many millions of people but for me it wasn't, well once we all got past the imminent death part! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Just now, Slowlycatchymonkey said: I feel bad saying that when it was a genuinely terrible time so many millions of people but for me it wasn't, well once we all got past the imminent death part! In my industry post Covid has even been better up until now. Prices went up and up and up, while demand did as well so everyone happy. I never earned so much money doing so little. Now all is turning to shit 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowlycatchymonkey Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 11 minutes ago, Pedro said: In my industry post Covid has even been better up until now. Prices went up and up and up, while demand did as well so everyone happy. I never earned so much money doing so little. Now all is turning to shit Us too. A percentage of returns are free and they weren't being used due to lockdown which meant no fuel or vehicle costs. The emergency returns which are pricey (you want a document and you want it 10 minutes ago) are usually medical files and legal docs like Wills for solicitors which demand for went up. But those days are gone. I was talking to our pension advisor and he said the bounce back from Covid was excellent. He had peoples pots performing at 20% up and they stayed there. Then we had an outstandingly stupid 'mini budget' which wiped the entire 20% off. They ditched the stupidity and its regained 5% but thats it. Heyho. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 I bleddy did it again. Followed a link on hear for some cheapy textile waterproof lined trousers on Ebay for £29.99. Guess what, they were crap and unwearable, mesh lining was sewn in twisted so you could not get you right leg in, press studs on the waste broken. Going back tomorrow. So I thought bite the bullet and go and buy some decent ones, which I did, and to my surprise the ones to match my Richa Jacket were only £99.99, so with my loyalty discount I got them for £89.99. Why the feck did I not do that in the first place? I think I have scrooge disease or something. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 23 minutes ago, Saul said: Why the feck did I not do that in the first place? Because you’re cheap, that’s why! In the end something that could have costed 90 ended up costing 120. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 54 minutes ago, Pedro said: Because you’re cheap, that’s why! In the end something that could have costed 90 ended up costing 120. True but £30 of that will be coming back. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 6 minutes ago, Saul said: True but £30 of that will be coming back. They’re refunding you? You’re not dealing with real chinese! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 54 minutes ago, Pedro said: They’re refunding you? You’re not dealing with real chinese! And funded the return postage, may be cheap shite but they came from a British retailer thank goodness. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Bloody hell, even the chinese nowadays can't be chinese anymore without being copied and bettered at their own thing. Hard days! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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