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up and out for 7.30 every morning and get back home anytime between 7 and 8pm sometimes a little later due to meeting customers, do my quotations as soon as i get home and either email that night or post the following day then start work on my websites until the early hours of the morning
this is normally 7 days a week but every few weeks if i can i will have a Sunday off to recharge my batteries, a working week can be over 100 hours but i enjoy every minute of it
the only days i don't work is Christmas day and New Years day
Perhaps a Landscaper you can choose your hours, but as a Nursery we cannot. We are expected to be open and serve customers, every week of the the year.
Growing plants is like growing cows, of whatever farmers do, it is everyday.
J, H & K playing up on the keyboard, no errors, hope not....
ROWLY HILL said:
Totally agree Rowly, would not have any other way.
Just good to hear what everyone else does
ROWLY HILL said:
All my clients are local so no need for silly 'o'clock starts, out the door approx 8.45 and back for 5-5.30, plus an hour or so for admin etc, in a previous life i had to be at work for 7am, with my own business im sure as hell not doing that anymore!
work occasional Saturdays if needed but not that often, i like my 'me' time and being with the kids
Like Rowly said, i run the business it doesnt run me, i work hard and want to succeed but there has to be a balance, i admire those who can work 24/7 and still enjoy it, but its not for me.
when I did garden design and maintenance it used to be mad from 6:30 till 19:00 and sometimes 22:00, no breaks .6 days a week. one shorter. than the children came and a partner gone , so I sold the maitenance part and did only garden design and make. 3.5 days 9-12 hours , half an hour break in the middle.
Now as a retailer 6 days as much as I can, but as working from home with 3 daughters and wife , it has its limitation. no complains. I enjoy it now
It varys for me with the work load, if we are booked up quite a bit in advance and have to get everything done i wont think tice of doing 8-7 on site weekdays 9-5 sat and 10-4 on sundays then of course after that its the quoting and other admin, also to keep costs down I usualy pick up at least 1 labouor, they have to be droped off after site. So in the spring summer too many hours as i can be up quoting until 1 or 2 in the morning sometimes.
Winter though its 8-4 as that is all light will alow on site usualy only 5 or 6 days a week and less quotes etc to do so usualy only an hour or so each night.
I love it though, i get a huge buzz of being really busy, then its nice to have all the rewards after too!
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