Just did a 12 hour jobbing day without a break, at pace.

[WaterTight]

My conclusion: I don't have a clue how anyone would be able to do it for more than one a few days without dying. I know very few people do, but some must.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

what did you do?

 

[Leo21]

My conclusion: I don't have a clue how anyone would be able to do it for more than one a few days without dying. I know very few people do, but some must.

Stupid boy.

 

[Best]

It's not so bad if you are young and reasonably fit.
I used to love really hard graft. Didn't matter how tired I was - by the next morning I had recovered. Now an 8 hour day kills me unless it is easy wee jobs
I am just home at after 7 tonight, completely knackered. I can no longer work hard for a few days in a row.

 

[Rickster123]

12 hours?? Jesus. I had the hump because I worked past 3!

 

[Best]

Stupid boy.

Captain Mainwaring

 

[Best]

As they say, - Only Fools and Horses work.
....and some plumbers.

 

[Millsy 82]

I used to do that from September through to April. That's the reason I don't want to go back on the books.

 

[lame plumber]

occasionally, the blue and orange machine launches at night, does it bit and you end up with a long tow home finishing about 8am, just in time to go to work. In order to keep a customer base I normally carry out all the days appointments, go home cancel the next days work and sleep....................... thank gaud it only happens once a year or so

 

[Phil]

Up north a 12 hour day is a mornings work, its 9:30pm now and I've just got in.... £5 a day and thrashed to sleep.

 

[Best]

Slightly related to the thread, - Looking around at other people, (those that actually do work), - how many of them do long hours or seem to work hard? Very few percent I think actually know what it's like

 

[Phil]

Come 5:00pm all the office based rat runners are queing up on the roads to get home to Pointless, never done a proper days work in their lives..

 

[Millsy 82]

And they don't start until 9-9:30!!!!!!

 

[Leo21]

Sod doing a full day, unless you have to. Ive done enough of them!

 

[Phil]

To be fair I don't start till 9:00/9:30am but I do finish around 7:00pm or later. It suits me, I'd love to start at 7am but just can't do it. I'm terrible in a morning...

 

[rpm]

Being young & stupid did 7 to 7 Mon - Thurs, 7 to 4 Fridays and 7 to 3 on Saturdays for 5yrs, reached the point I didn`t know what day of the week it was.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

To be fair I don't start till 9:00/9:30am but I do finish around 7:00pm or later. It suits me, I'd love to start at 7am but just can't do it. I'm terrible in a morning...

same but half the time i cant get into places until 9-9.30am but otheres im in at 5am

 

[Phil]

same but half the time i cant get into places until 9-9.30am but otheres im in at 5am

What noise can you make at 5am, is this commercial?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

What noise can you make at 5am, is this commercial?

yea only time you can get in other than from 9pm till 7am

 

[rpm]

What noise can you make at 5am, is this commercial?

Dunno if it`s commercial scale but I can snore very loudly at 5am so I`m told. lol

 

[Phil]

Dunno if it`s commercial scale but I can snore very loudly at 5am so I`m told. lol

I snore right up to 8:32am when I get up...

 

[lame plumber]

only did it for a few months when I was getting going in this business, used to relief milk for a local farmer, up at 4.30 milking at 5.00 finished at 8.45 and off for a days property maintenance/plumbing. or do the evening shift aafter work and weekend am and pm. The best customers I ever had, all 250 of them.

 

[missplumb]

i used to leave home at 7 for work at 8, do a backboiler to combi conversion with vertical flue, all flushed and tested and back home for 8pm. did that for nearly 2 years. My concience at throwing the work in got the better of me and i quit. i thought that was hard work - the young lad doing the house next to me had it all done by dinnertime!!!!

 

[Millsy 82]

i used to leave home at 7 for work at 8, do a backboiler to combi conversion with vertical flue, all flushed and tested and back home for 8pm. did that for nearly 2 years. My concience at throwing the work in got the better of me and i quit. i thought that was hard work - the young lad doing the house next to me had it all done by dinnertime!!!!

When I worked for iguana that was a short day for me.

If I was lucky I would have a job near me but most of the time I was leaving home at 6-6:15 to be at merchants for 7:30, usually leave merchants about 10 by the time they got the order through, do my days work then leave for home usually 8 at the earliest.

I couldn't just lob everything in and tried to do every job to a good standard.

 

[Leo21]

I couldn't do any of that amount of work now. I'd quit and become a post man.