Does anyone else choose to keep their work dull and predictable?

[WaterTight]

...Deciding it's the lesser of two evils?

Perhaps because new challenges can blow up in your face and involve extra stress/hassle?

Perhaps even, as in my case, because a new challenge in this business is not a challenge that could excite anyway.

7am depressions. Apologies.

 

[albatross]

I do. Life is so much easier. I only fit one make of boiler that I know inside out. I only do heating,not plumbing/fires/cookers etc. I only stay local and work for people I like. Get 50% up front and a contract signed. If they mess me about in the slightest I never work for them again. Turn phone off when I go to bed, don't answer it after 5 or weekend and my voicemail says i'm only open 9-5. Life is so much better.

 

[Masood]

No, if I'm not learning new stuff or challenging myself I get bored. If I stagnate I get depressed and lose all motivation.

 

[gasmanrob]

Can't keep breakdowns predictable you never know what you're walking into,come across some real gems from time to time too

 

[villa_tom]

I prefer boring an predictable. I mainly do appliance servicing, cp12's and minor installs like rad swaps or pipework renewal. To some it may be boring doing the same thing all the time, but I prefer to know what my day is going to be like when I leave for work in the morning.

I dont like repairs as I'm not 100% on them and don't really like working when I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing.

Im dropping a day a week at work for a few months and I'm tagging along with a breakdown engineer on Fridays and going to learn all I can.

I'm not useless on repairs but I want to be more clued up before I do them day in day out. After that, who knows, I might choose to do them all the time and hate predictable days 🙂

 

[SimonG]

I like varied an exciting. Often it is in this game 🙂

 

[townfanjon]

I do. Life is so much easier. I only fit one make of boiler that I know inside out. I only do heating,not plumbing/fires/cookers etc. I only stay local and work for people I like. Get 50% up front and a contract signed. If they mess me about in the slightest I never work for them again. Turn phone off when I go to bed, don't answer it after 5 or weekend and my voicemail says i'm only open 9-5. Life is so much better.

I just can't fault that pal

 

[Dannypipe]

I like to stretch myself. Very easily bored. That said I have turned down jobs as they are too big for me to take on, but if we are talking about taking on unusual work...then definitely I like a challenge.

 

[hammers4spanner]

i have just opted for boring and predictable cant be bothered now to be browsing through the blue book chasing off the cuff stuff , ursing about with commercial installs trying to chase specialist kit that goes with that sort of stuff .

all i am now interested in is gas works and billy basic plumbing

 

[lame plumber]

intergas installs, preferably baxi 80e or 105e repairs, and nothing to complicated along the line, however it never works out, city link refused to leave my delivery in a shed today, so no parts for tomorrow, waiting in for city link irriot tomorrow who will hand over his parcel and have a door in his face, if he wants a signature one of the 3 dogs will sign his arse, am I teed off with jobsworths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Phil]

intergas installs, preferably baxi 80e or 105e repairs, and nothing to complicated along the line, however it never works out, city link refused to leave my delivery in a shed today, so no parts for tomorrow, waiting in for city link irriot tomorrow who will hand over his parcel and have a door in his face, if he wants a signature one of the 3 dogs will sign his arse, am I teed off with jobsworths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's only doing his low skill jobsworth job, if he doesn't get a signature his boss will beat him.

Do you do bathrooms watertight?

 

[Ray Stafford]

intergas installs, preferably baxi 80e or 105e repairs, and nothing to complicated along the line, however it never works out, city link refused to leave my delivery in a shed today, so no parts for tomorrow, waiting in for city link irriot tomorrow who will hand over his parcel and have a door in his face, if he wants a signature one of the 3 dogs will sign his arse, am I teed off with jobsworths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wont necessarily be the same driver. The citylink depot opposite us must have 50 vans and drivers.

 

[Leo21]

The work can sometimes be simple, but customers on the othe hand.......

 

[WaterTight]

The work can sometimes be simple, but customers on the othe hand.......

Imagine if your job was identical to how it is now in every way except by law the customer had to leave their house on your arrival and not return until you'd finished. I think I'd start every day with a skip in my step.

 

[Leo21]

Supposed to have an easy morning today and then take wife for an apointment.
I went to service a turbo max and as I was wrestling the flue hood back into place the heat ex seals started to leak. Bugger drain down and renew seals, easy. Nope got it back together ; f60! Wtf,s that? Belled all the connections through, disconnected fan pump gas valve etc. Pulling my hair out! On the approximately fiftyith attempt it fired. Phew!
Ordinary, boring, mundane. I don't think so. And if it is, it's as much as I can cope with.

 

[Whyme]

jobbing on our firm can be a pain, domestic, industrial,plumbing,drains anything. i like to be given a big few weeks job and left alone tbh.

 

[julesverne]

i love having a predictable day mondays but dont mind anything else the week throws at me till around 5.00 pm friday even i generally work saturdays that said i do love breakdowns/plumbing issues and not knowing what you'll be walking into, i love the challenge otherwise i would get bored very quickly.

 

[Ermintrude]

I let office do my Callander some days it's amazing !

 

[WaterTight]

i suppose it comes down to whether you find challenging plumbing interesting. to me it's akin to taking a challenging dump.

 

[Centralheatking]

Hi Watertight I have been self employed for the last 30 years and still wake up every day
at 0500 ready to go because I decide what happens CHK

as in my case, because a new challenge in this business is not a challenge that could excite anyway.

7am depressions. Apologies.[/QUOTE]

 

[WaterTight]

fair enough. good for you.

you know you and i have rather sel-agrandising usernames don't we? not much in the humility department. if we were rapping plumbers we'd have our names sorted. yo yo this WaterTight and The Central Heat King coming at ya etc etc.

 

[Phil]

Hi Watertight I have been self employed for the last 30 years and still wake up every day
at 0500 ready to go because I decide what happens CHK

as in my case, because a new challenge in this business is not a challenge that could excite anyway.

7am depressions. Apologies.

[/QUOTE]

What time are you in bed centralheatking to get up at such an unearthly hour??

 

[TBServices]

Nothing is exciting in this game anymore. If I could just drive round and fix one brand of boiler, or do cp12's, and earn a decent crack, I would.

Anything that seems out of my comfort zone kind of scares me, but doesn't excite me. Only really care about the payday tbh.

Some jobs seem so tedious/so hard work that I literally have to be scraping the barrel to drag myself to them lol.

 

[Killy Bing]

I'm struggling.

im still up now and will be till the early hours because im terrified because the few jobs ive taken on are all fairly big (to me)

My apprentiship i never really worked in a place more than two days, nor did i do everything from start to finish.

Now ive ended up doing an entire office.
thats boiler, gas, full central heating, now im doing the bathrooms and fitting the kitchen.

what was doing a pair of bathrooms for the mate has turned into re installing the boiler properly, extending the central heating system, the two public bathrooms and all of the soil pipework.

Have to look and quote for a new build house, oil fired ch + unvented but yay no bathrooms.

i need to go sort out an unvented installation.

services to go do.

and to top it off, tomorrow morning i have to go rebuild a worcester and then fault find on it to see whats up, because the other guy just "had a go"

bah, i hope i get bloody used to this

 

[TBServices]

If you're owt like me, you won't. It's a pain in the arse.