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I must be on about 90 hours a week.. with consultations and paper work it creeps up extremely easily
Try keeping a diary of hours worked, it's quite enlightening/depressing. Once you include all the time you spend in the evenings on admin, the weekends servicing equipment, the lying awake wondering when you're going to fit the van MOT in when it's so busy, it all adds up.
103 hours? Almost 15 hours a day for 7 days? Not wise!
I keep a note of my hours all year and for the tax year just finished i averaged 38 hours per week over 48 weeks of the year. Work to live, not live to work. With a seven month old son i am aiming to work less this year too, no more late nights or saturday work and i have dropped a few customers to facilitate this.
Phil
I refuse to work weekends . Best decision I ever made. :)
If you include site work, looking at jobs, actually doing the quotes then other vaguely related business stuff, including being on here and the other forums and the time reading up from books and the web, then its practically every waking hour of the day.
But then Landscaping is my passion not just my job and to better my self to level I want to work at takes a lot of time and effort.
Its not just me then lol
I dread to think how many hours I'm working at the moment
i get my jobs done efficiently, planned (i try)
in the right weather- at the right time if possible.
kit in the right place, jobs in order of route (if required)
7hrs a day when im working. maybe 9 in peak summer. ill work sat or sunday(mowing if dry) odd hrs.
im self-employed. im not working myself to death - why would you?????
bad back, heart attack , accident, car crash , white finger etc etc (no thanks i ve had HAVS ,and need an operation on my shoulder already after 10 years).... nahhh
big house, new car. latest phone : all is vanity. moderation & reality :)
Ok i have no kids or wife & get a few sacks of free logs, and have a good mower.
i like my job / love it. you can't eat money !
Over working is a very dangerous game for all sorts of reasons. It is a treadmill that is difficult to get off. We always worked a solid 7.30-5, but last year cut back to 7.30-4.30, which gives the lads a standard 8 hour day. Obviously I spend a bit more time on book work, but not over much. To be honest, if you do not make a decent living working standard hours, then there is something wrong with your business setup.
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