[Perfect Windows]

That really depends where your focus is in life. Do you live to work or work to live?

By the phrasing of the question, you appear to assume that those are the only two possibilities, whereas I achieve a balance between the two.  I live and I work, but I do neither to the exclusion of the other.

Vin

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

I think I lose one month per year untangling my hose!

One of the scariest facts I ever worked out: Spend two minutes per working day doing something and it's a working day a year...

I bear this in mind whenever I find myself doing something not related to making money in the business.

Vin

Your comments don't seem to suggest that. And as I don't know you they are all I can base I disagreeumptions on. 

[gewindows]

I hope you dont rely on that.

Of course I do.

In the same way that there is always more toothpaste in the tube, there's always space to slip in an extra job into a day.

Simple.

Vin

So in the winter in the middle of December it pi$$e$ down for a week (which isnt unusual) and then its those bank holidays you mention that you reckon you can catch up on (christmas and new year), by the time its the end of the first week of January in the new year you're 2-3 weeks behind you do what work/hours/earningswise the following week?

[Perfect Windows]

I think I lose one month per year untangling my hose!

One of the scariest facts I ever worked out: Spend two minutes per working day doing something and it's a working day a year...

I bear this in mind whenever I find myself doing something not related to making money in the business.

Vin

Your comments don't seem to suggest that. And as I don't know you they are all I can base I disagreeumptions on. 

Ah, grasshopper, exactly my point.  The two minute quote reflects the fact that I try not to waste working time with non-productive activities.  This means I have time to earn money and to live.

Vin

[Perfect Windows]

So in the winter in the middle of December it pi$$e$ down for a week (which isnt unusual) and then its those bank holidays you mention that you reckon you can catch up on (christmas and new year), by the time its the end of the first week of January in the new year you're 2-3 weeks behind you do what work/hours/earningswise the following week?

I work in the rain.  I take two weeks of planned holiday over Christmas and New Year.

Vin

[gewindows]

Holiday was one of the criteria listed that can cause loss of earnings, I thought you said you'd be able to catch up on those things.


Anyway you havent done a christmas yet, your still in your first year by the looks of things.

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

Holiday was one of the criteria listed that can cause loss of earnings, I thought you said you'd be able to catch up on those things.


Anyway you havent done a christmas yet, your still in your first year by the looks of things.

WHAT?! Were being lectured on productivity by a newbie!! How long have you been at it then Perfect Windows?

[Perfect Windows]

Holiday was one of the criteria listed that can cause loss of earnings, I thought you said you'd be able to catch up on those things.

Nope.  Try reading this: probably for the first time, I guess.  No mention of holidays other than bank holidays.

You also neglecting the fact that you tend to catch up for poor weather, bank holidays, sick and van MOTs, etc, so the days aren't actually lost, just deferred.

Vin

Ok, let me put it more accurately.  I plan (as I always have in every job I've ever done) to take two weeks at Christmas and New Year.  So, that takes care of three bank holidays included in my couple of weeks off.

WHAT?! Were being lectured on productivity by a newbie!! How long have you been at it then Perfect Windows?

Started last Wednesday, Stuart.

Vin

[gewindows]

Holiday was one of the criteria listed that can cause loss of earnings, I thought you said you'd be able to catch up on those things.


Anyway you havent done a christmas yet, your still in your first year by the looks of things.

WHAT?! Were being lectured on productivity by a newbie!! How long have you been at it then Perfect Windows?

      

No mention of holidays other than bank holidays.

Oh really?

What amount of time would you say is fair/average considering the business we are in. Heres my thinking.

3 days per month for poor weather = 36 days (7 weeks)

3 weeks holiday per year.

1 week bank holidays.

1 week ill/sick.

1 week for various (van in for MOT, van breakdown, family sickness, dentist etc)

3 months!!

That equates to 25% of the year.

I was quite surprised to think it might be a full quarter of my working year.

[Perfect Windows]

I know you mentioned holidays.  I didn't mention it (see my quote above) as something that could be caught up, which you implied I had said in in an earlier post of yours. That's why.....

Ah, stuff it.

Life's too short.

Vin

[gewindows]

 


Anyway, your only just down the road from me, if you want any tips from an old-timer give me a shout 

[Perfect Windows]

Anyway, your only just down the road from me, if you want any tips from an old-timer give me a shout 

Where are you?  I'm always keen on advice.

Vin

[Steven Shoreditch]

I've lost my nail clippers.

[gewindows]

Basingstoke.

But I do a lot of Hampshire. Particularly hi-end/high value work  

[Steven Shoreditch]

pfft.

[gewindows]

Get back on yer 'orse 

[Londoner]

Did anyone mention time spent in the Caff? I go out with a list, I do my list and I come home. Its funny but somehow it always seems to fit exactly into the time. Even allowing for trips to homebase or Halfords or round my mum's for a cuppa.

[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[G Griffin]

 "Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money,but you cannot get more time".

[elite mike]

work to live

not live to work