OT: What is it with TM members and working long hours?
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Ok, over the last year of so I've notice quite a few members of TM are working long hours and now I've started work on building my engine my hours have jumped from a normal 40 a week to 70 this week and 60 the week before (I'm not looking forward to next week).

And now I'm barely able to stay awake let along work on either of the cars :(

I know the feeling...

I think its the fact that this forum attracts lots of intelligent people and many of them work hard partly because of the skills they have but also because of the people they are... IE not lazy :)

Alex

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My boss asked me a few weeks ago to do 12 hours a day 6 days a week for the next 6 months or so. Can't say I've been doing that every day. But your right there are some smart cookies on this forum and some people with interesting jobs.

70hr week?!?i wish!!! 100hr+ is the norm for some of us!!!


all good fun though, wish it was in the
UK as well!

I'm past the smart cookies, more like cookie dough for me!!

I only do 56 hours a week must be getting old

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i just want a job bad, i hate it! i'd like to work some hrs but cant stand phones, big offices & need a to see a nice result of my days work, thats fair is'nt it!

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im also looking for a job!!
joinery i think should be good for me, see some good results at the end of the job.
and iv been in collage for the last 2 years learning it!! now i just want to make a bit of money!!

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http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

I've been off work for 3 weeks. I'm not looking forward to going back tomorrow, but I've still got 2 weeks holiday to take before Xmas :)

i dont work weekends but still manage to get in 50-55 hours a week

im a bum who works 0 hrs ... fik as shit though

I've been doing 60 + for the last 5 weeks, all nights, and all outside next to the railway.

Still, it's all money in the pot for a new Subaru, and fix the TT of course.

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

i left work in sep to go back to college with the idea of having more nights in with my loved one (mini), however i seem to be working more what with college, projects, work, and finishing it off at home than i ever was before

i think we all work long hours to get these blasted things working right (except wolfie, and thats because his never works!!)

Or, is a TM a money pit? that need to be fed? anyway, I am guilty as well. 50+ hours normally, at peak? i won't guess.

im on a 60hr week aswell, 2 jobs mind.

I gues the reason why i do all the hrs now is because i can, plan for a simple life later on? Want things now and dont want to buy on credit?

Mortgage paid off in 5 years :), we'll thats the plan

I've seen the future and tbh its Pie

I know what you meen about working long hours....these 45 hour weeks are killing me.. :)

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

tell me about, i got a right sweat on with my 40hr weeks!

im at uni! :) ive been in an hour2day! :)
i really should get this mini finished with the time i have on my hands!!!

Been there, done that got the tee shirt.

And got f@ck all for it working all hours for someone else. Lots of stress and poor health was the end result.

Now work for myself, by myself, rarely over 40 hours a week.

You just need to charge a high enough rate that controls the work to an acceptable level.

My advice - dont do it!

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

I'm back at it again, I've some how managed to clock up 40 hours already this week and it's only Wednesday :(

i've clocked up a big fat 0 hours, still on the rock n roll.

Time for me to change career i think as there's fook all out there for a locksmith, pity no-one wants to retrain a 26 year old.

That's a real shiter, good luck finding something.

Hi,
Self employed locksmith?
I saw a locksmiths van going round somewhere the other day....
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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think i might actually touch 32hours this week! i'm sure a bead of sweat was on my brow yesterday, must slow down!

sod working for myself, nothing would ever get done! i guess i'm the rare dumb, lazy cba tm owner then?

I have a wierd job in the hours dept..

I look after 20 odd CT scanners and cover a lot of others when on standby which is a 24/7 call every 5 weeeks or so. Some days/weeks I do sweet F-all (but have to be available to respond immediately) others get nasty, yesterday 5:30am start 2am end... I have actually put in 28-30 hours in a "day" more than a few times.... Then you have a 2-3 hour drive home!~! (thats when I usually dump into a Hotel) Good thing is I get well paid for this extra time...

All in all I couldn't stand a 9-5 job, I like what I do. If I fix em right I just sit on my ass and wait, and thats the kind of job you want!

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My work hours anit to bad in a normal weeks work it's about 3-4 hours a night 5 days a week basic, But thats on night shifts on the london under ground, we do do the odd 12 hour shut down shifts but not that often.