i was wondering that how do you guys or gals ever manage to make it to the computer after a 40 to 60 hour work week. right now i’m dog tired but i’m catching up on a few things. go to bed, you’ll need it.
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I hear you....sometimes I'll be in a particularly busy phase and be getting undressed for bed and glance over at the computer and wonder, "how the heck did I ever used to find time to cruise the web?!". A few weeks/days later things'll slow down a bit and I'll feel like a regular again here at BT.
Literally weeks will go by and I'll never sign on to the Web. Still use the computer alot to churn out estimates, contracts, invoices etc but just don't find the time for the web. Spring and summer get like that ......BRING IT ON!!!!!!
see what time it is!
Told a friend yesterday that BT and houses can be the end of a marrage.lol
Be sleepy
andy
dual personalities..none of us actually do anything related to work..we just pretend and talk a goodline of sh1t..
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ROAR..Lemme know when ya get a free day...might have to hire ya..double check my work..what flavor beer and how many per hour?...low calorie, low carb, low alcohol right? <G>..
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I'll let you know Holga.
Greta.Who Dares Wins.
"i was wondering that how do you guys or gals ever manage to make it to the computer after a 40 to 60 hour work week"
Chello,
I wake up at 4:45am, and get to work at 6:00am, and normally work till 2:30pm, so lots of time left in the day for all sorts of stuff (BTW, my commute is 15 minutes). When I was younger and poorer, I worked many an 80 hour week........don't know how I did it.
For me this BT stuff is recreational, even though I have to work with computers quite often at work.
Jon
Chello,
Yeah I'm like everyone above, when busy I'm not here much, when thing slow down I read it a few times a day. Now Piffin, Mike, Boss, Andy C, and a few other really wealthy contractors have as much time as they need to cruise the web as they all have extensive staffs, plush well lit offices, huge supplies of surplus funds to carry them through slow times. I hope to be like them some day. They are my heros. DanT
I start about 8 am and usually finish up about 9pm, mostly seven days a week at the moment. I have frequent 30 minute breaks, though, and as my workshop is only a few yards from the house when I have a break I come in and log on to Breaktime. The UK is at least 5 hours ahead of most of you, which means I miss out on the evening arguments, sorry, I mean discussions.
John
John in the UK: can you help a Yank out? I'm trying to find a website to order some Costas (sp?) espresso roast coffee from... (apologies to all BT folks for this "non-construction" query - but hey, some of us need good java when taking a break from the band saw!)
If Costas has a UK website then http://www.google.co.uk isn't aware of it, I'mafraid. I'm not the best person to ask about this as I drink Nescafe (a brand of instant) and have for the last 35 years (although I went to decaf 5 years ago). Best of luck
John
Work gets in the way of fishing.. Couldn't have that....
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
Fishing - So that's where you've been, eh?
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Well no matter what I did during the day..read the paper, drink coffee, talk sports... when asked I always say....Yo Trabajo duro....
Darkworksite4:
Gancho agarrador izquierdo americano pasado que la bandera antes de usted sale
At least 2 or 3 times a week...
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
"At least 2 or 3 times a week..."
You suck!
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i work to the point of exhaustion on a regular basis, however everyone who knows me will tell you i talk a lot. i think a lot of this has to do with at work communication is only as needed, and minimized to improve efficiency. i talk a lot because for most of my waking hours i can't, i'm busy concentrating on the work (read focused).
breaktime gives me a much needed chance to communicate with like minded individuals, and when i am not exhausted from work i tend to talk to much in here as well, don't mean to offend, just starved for human contact through self imposed deprivation.
Watch it there Dainty, LOL
I'm one of those who - when I'm on the job, the new guy wonders, "doesn't he ever slow down?" and customers think everything I do is easy - because I make it look that way, but they never know what I do behind the scenes - like right now, I'vew been nine hours on the machine doing the electrical and interior designs on this one since early this AM and a couple hours out to go to a funeral and my breaktimes thru the day here at BT to rewind my mind.
Work ain't work when you enjoy it though
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dan.. yeah , baby... dats me, livin da life !Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Almost all of my work is on the computer, and BT is my coffee break. I work alone, have no one to chat with most of the day, don't drink coffee, so when I need to clear my head of a tough design detail, BT is a window away. It's easy to take a quick look, clear the cobwebs, and go back to work.
CH, Echo??
Like you, I find BT a good way to find out what "thoughts' are out there & 'clear cobwebs'. In the office, nearly everyone has a simlar political persuation, although few have the gifts of manual skill many here have.
Anyway, usually get up by 2:30 AM and go to the office to beat the traffic (Seattle) and leave by noon. That gives me time in the afternoon for 'hobbies' like building more sheds, repairing machinery, etc <G> and buying a few more old tractors or such. Oh yeah, there's about 15 hours + a week entertaining grandkids -- anyone else 'not allowed' to sweep up sawdust 'cause it's the wintertime sandbox for the kids?? Hose around on BT or ebay and quaff a few glasses of wine for1/2 hour or so, in the sack about 8:30, often wake at midnight and do a couple hours work before going to work. Will be interesting if ever an acot on nonogeneriean, my Grandma slept <3 hrs a night then.
Those near or over 60, do you find it takes almost twice as long to get something done physically as it did in your 40s even??