Stupid hours

[charlie1]

This is in reply to the post about power vibro floors. Every penny was earned, no one gave us a thing. Damned hard work, done by damn hard men, respect to them all.

Would you you not like to go back to that type of work phil or is all that stuff behind you? Can imagine it would be very physically demanding working in a team like that.

 

[Old Mod]

Can imagine it would be very physically demanding working in a team like that.

I've not worked on vibro teams but whilst tiling in Africa back in the mid eighties laying 100's of metres a week of a marble tile integrating 4-5m2 area of pillks Four Square that formed kitchen and bathroom areas when the stud work was put down on top. That was gruelling. Temperatures like u'd not believe, being advised to drink TEN litres of water a day, which we did by midday! And no water cooling to start with, all bottled water stored in the ships containers they were delivered in! Drinking hot water is not recommended in searing heat, tastes like ......... :smiley2: all good experience tho! 90 hour weeks!

 

[widler]

well how hard you work depends on many things how old you are when you started could the work dry up in a mowmenet so make hay while the sun shines .do you only need to pay the bills and go on hoilday once a year and that enough for you .do you have a drive that makes you want more out of life .
all these things make up how hard you work .well i always made hay while the sun shines so do all the tilers i know .to give you a clue of how we worked all work on price on site no less than 12 hours a day if we did not earn a days wages in 5 hours the rest bouns. you could not work with us if you could not keep up . so doing hotels two rooms a day was standard and no courners cut .to give you a clue we would work at a hotel untill 6 pm go and have some dinner then go to a shop fitt work untill 2am then go home sleep then be on site at the hotel at 8am to do it again .and every now and again work 48 hours none stop so its your choice work hard play hard .work easy want less

For them hours, week in weekout ray i would want to retire by the time im 40
Whats the point in working 18hoirs plus a day in your 20s and still having to work in yours 40s/50s ?
Ive worked since i was 16, grafted, yes, but normal hours not daft hours.
Im 44 , have a good life,im not a millionaire ( not even a thousandsire ) but if i was working them hours every week id want to be a millionaire by now

 

[widler]

For them hours, week in weekout ray i would want to retire by the time im 40
Whats the point in working 18hoirs plus a day in your 20s and still having to work in yours 40s/50s ?
Ive worked since i was 16, grafted, yes, but normal hours not daft hours.
Im 44 , have a good life,im not a millionaire ( not even a thousandsire ) but if i was working them hours every week id want to be a millionaire by now

In fact thinking about it i remember a roofer on a site, worked on his own,work all hours, went on hols loads of times a year , asked him (i would of been 17/18) why he worked all them hours , he said " i be dead by the time im 50 cos of this but i want the good life now "
I thought at the time yeah that sounds good , but thank god i didnt cos if i was dead by the time i was 50 i would miss the best parts of my life

 

[david campbell]

At the end of the day you work what you need to, if you can afford to knock back jobs with crazy hours then you will. If you want/need the money then you'll grab it with both hands, horses for courses and all that!

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Would you you not like to go back to that type of work phil or is all that stuff behind you? Can imagine it would be very physically demanding working in a team like that.

It was Mark but I had young kids at the time, I still get the odd offer now and then.
But the money would have to be good for me to put myself through that again.

 

[widler]

At the end of the day you work what you need to, if you can afford to knock back jobs with crazy hours then you will. If you want/need the money then you'll grab it with both hands, horses for courses and all that!

Aye true,but if you have to work 18 hours a day week in week out in this day and age(in the building 'wet' trades not ***** trades like leccys or plumbers )just to make ends meet,you would have to be living wwwaaaaaayyyyy beyond your means,

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Aye true,but if you have to work 18 hours a day week in week out in this day and age(in the building 'wet' trades not ***** trades like leccys or plumbers )just to make ends meet,you would have to be living wwwaaaaaayyyyy beyond your means,

I like the term ***** trades Craig, good on you, wet trades have always been hard you have to be born to them.

Not many people know what hard graft is especially most wives, they make the right noises but don't realise the stress involved in getting work, and trying to keep everyone happy.

You have to live it to understand. Rant over.

 

[White Room]

Good solid post Phil

 

[One Day]

I work as much as I need or want. This stage in life I want as much time with my family as possible.
I would rather have more time during the year with them, than work my socks off to pay for a 2 week holiday where I'm too knackered to do anything!
That said though, it still feels good to do the odd "mad" week and 16 hr days.
Stops me going too soft!
Normally I aim to start at 8 and finish for 4pm. And never at weekend.

 

[judge]

With 3 kids-6-13 yrs old,It would be great to spend more time with them and have more hols but its now in life that i really need the money !No work-no hols or All work-no time for hols !!!!

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Good solid post Phil

Thanks Mark, I sometimes think this forum keeps me going, kindred spirits, people who understand what being a self employed tiler involves.

Not so easy IMO

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

For them hours, week in weekout ray i would want to retire by the time im 40
Whats the point in working 18hoirs plus a day in your 20s and still having to work in yours 40s/50s ?
Ive worked since i was 16, grafted, yes, but normal hours not daft hours.
Im 44 , have a good life,im not a millionaire ( not even a thousandsire ) but if i was working them hours every week id want to be a millionaire by now

its not what you earn its what you do with the money you earn that makes the diffrence . heres two converstions i have heard first hand .i wish when i was younger i did the things you did going out having a great time not caring about tomorrow / sitting by his swimming pool in his big country house not a money worry in the world/ next i wish i had worked harder when i was younger not messing it up the wall having a wild time i will be working untill i die /so whats the right answer /well my view is when i get to 70-80 i want to look back and say i wish i had not done that at least i know the out come /rather than say i wish i would have done that/all i can say i loved working hard and all the new challenges it bought self satifaction for me its not about money its saying i did that and taking pride in that. the money is the reward what you do with it is your own choice

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

I like the term ***** trades Craig, good on you, wet trades have always been hard you have to be born to them.

Not many people know what hard graft is especially most wives, they make the right noises but don't realise the stress involved in getting work, and trying to keep everyone happy.

You have to live it to understand. Rant over.

well phill you would have heard this to many times the wife .whats wrong with you always out working never at home when you come home i call the police i think its a buglar the kids dont even now you .same breath by the way bought the kids some new clouthes booked the hoilday heres the bills and the new sofa comming on monday some times you just cant win

 

[peteablard]

Set off from Salisbury at 6 this morning and worked all day in London. I'm currently latexing a floor in Manchester then need to drive back to London.....then Salisbury then back to Manchester tmrw night. I don't do this all the time but anyone who has been involved with shop fitting will understand how crazy it can be sometimes. Got a lie in on Friday morning which I'm looking forward to!