My conclusion: I don't have a clue how anyone would be able to do it for more than one a few days without dying. I know very few people do, but some must.
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Just did a 12 hour jobbing day without a break, at pace.
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what did you do?
Stupid boy.
It's not so bad if you are young and reasonably fit.
I used to love really hard graft. Didn't matter how tired I was - by the next morning I had recovered. Now an 8 hour day kills me unless it is easy wee jobs
I am just home at after 7 tonight, completely knackered. I can no longer work hard for a few days in a row.
I used to love really hard graft. Didn't matter how tired I was - by the next morning I had recovered. Now an 8 hour day kills me unless it is easy wee jobs
I am just home at after 7 tonight, completely knackered. I can no longer work hard for a few days in a row.
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12 hours?? Jesus. I had the hump because I worked past 3!
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lame plumber
occasionally, the blue and orange machine launches at night, does it bit and you end up with a long tow home finishing about 8am, just in time to go to work. In order to keep a customer base I normally carry out all the days appointments, go home cancel the next days work and sleep....................... thank gaud it only happens once a year or so 🙂
same but half the time i cant get into places until 9-9.30am but otheres im in at 5am
What noise can you make at 5am, is this commercial?
yea only time you can get in other than from 9pm till 7am
Dunno if it`s commercial scale but I can snore very loudly at 5am so I`m told. lol
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lame plumber
only did it for a few months when I was getting going in this business, used to relief milk for a local farmer, up at 4.30 milking at 5.00 finished at 8.45 and off for a days property maintenance/plumbing. or do the evening shift aafter work and weekend am and pm. The best customers I ever had, all 250 of them.
i used to leave home at 7 for work at 8, do a backboiler to combi conversion with vertical flue, all flushed and tested and back home for 8pm. did that for nearly 2 years. My concience at throwing the work in got the better of me and i quit. i thought that was hard work - the young lad doing the house next to me had it all done by dinnertime!!!!
When I worked for iguana that was a short day for me.
If I was lucky I would have a job near me but most of the time I was leaving home at 6-6:15 to be at merchants for 7:30, usually leave merchants about 10 by the time they got the order through, do my days work then leave for home usually 8 at the earliest.
I couldn't just lob everything in and tried to do every job to a good standard.
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