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Yes still plumbing doing voids for housing association, 37 hour week no OT but 5 weeks hols and all other perks
Small works change flues , taps , boilers ,rads .
I know the manager said its pretty easy stuff mostly voids.
Hours are decent for the money plus it works out i can do my own small works.
I know the manager said its pretty easy stuff mostly voids.
Hours are decent for the money plus it works out i can do my own small works.
You'll be back!
They all start off easy to get you on with them then all of a sudden bam back boiler out and combi in in a day!
All combis now and they do most of the big stuff with subbies.
I know the job tbh but i defo wont be selling any kit
Well done pal , good decision , you can be poorly now and go on holiday knowing you are getting paid.
The irony is when i applied i had not much work coming in.
Now have a large extension ,3 flats to convert, 2 bathrooms and loads of little stuff ringing in lol
Now have a large extension ,3 flats to convert, 2 bathrooms and loads of little stuff ringing in lol
I hope not tbh all depends what it is like , although beating your own drum can be good at the same time it can be so troublesome.
Main reason I'm going employed is for health reduce the stress and as I'm getting older things do go wrong in your body.
So if something does happen I still get paid
Main reason I'm going employed is for health reduce the stress and as I'm getting older things do go wrong in your body.
So if something does happen I still get paid
Very few places unless you get on with a council pay sick pay. Apart from statutory sick pay which is less than £100.
When I went back it was good for a bit finished by 5 every night not doing prices etc when I got home my stress levels went, then when it went quiet for a couple of days instead of doing what I want you end up sat in an office doing nothing.
Or other times if you want to finish early for 1 reason or another (surf was absolutely pumping) and ask to finish at 3 because you have finished all your work and happy to go home unpaid they say we need you to go and do these 2 jobs got there and the customer didnt know I was going to them and it wasnt a desperate job, whilst on the phone to the office one of the other lazy duckwit others was back in the office from 5 minutes after I left until 4 having a cuppa and doing sweet fa then going home whilst getting paid and I'm stuck working to 5 and by the time I get out surfing all the hordes have finished work and were trying to get down to catch the last hour of daylight and surf.
Or on a Friday afternoon after you've worked your ballcocks off to get a job finished get back to the office to tidy your van out on a Friday afternoon to be asked to go and help someone who was struggling to get finished turn up they have spent the last 5 days moving a boiler 3 mtrs and it was still nowhere near finished most people would of had the job sorted in 3 days easy. Then there is a gas leak I said how was the 1st test oh I didnt do one 5.30 comes Duck this I'm off.
Once you have been self employed it's difficult to go back the worst i find is the holidays you have to give 3 weeks notice. If the forecast is good and i have a free day during the week and the family are around I'll take the day off and not worry, it makes up for the late nights sometimes.
Although I get most of what you are saying, how do you have a "free day"? I never worked outside an 8 mile radius, and rarely had any "free days", unless I had booked myself out or a punter let me down, which was rare. TBF, I did a lot of small jobs and did not overload the day, but someone would always phone in with an urgency so if things went smoothly, I could do those. If the sun was out, I would do the promised jobs and probably finish earlyish.
I now work for a LA, and they would probably be awkward if I wanted to finish early to go surfin', as inevitably an urgent call would crop up. they would also be a bit puzzled, as the nearest sea is 70 miles away, and cornwall a working days drive 🙂.
But Good Luck to H&S - he may be doing the right thing. I find life is a lot less stressful, and still do the odd private, but even those are limited to small but decent paying, and only on Tuesday teatime or Friday at 1.30 🙂. I am on my drive between 5pm and 5.05pm, and leave home at about 8.15. Lunch break every day, and finish at 1.30 on Fridays.
But there are drawbacks - the main thing being some of the morons in charge, and I struggled for the first month to get my head into the right gear, and to slow down into the new job. If I had to go back SE, I may struggle to rev back up, but not too long till I finsih anyway.
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