Good job you've got the iphone to report back in though....:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
anyway I'm with Flopsy, nowt wrong with Egyptian cotton in my book, you'll be telling us you've gone soft and opted for a duvet next.
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Good job you've got the iphone to report back in though....:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by daz h
anyway I'm with Flopsy, nowt wrong with Egyptian cotton in my book, you'll be telling us you've gone soft and opted for a duvet next.
We are the opposite of each other then. My work hours (when doing the job) are ok as I work from home and regulate my own diary. Leave home after a sensible time for brekkie, back at lunch to do paperwork innthe aftrenoon or at least back by tea time. Never work evenings nor weekends. Travel lots but in paid company time to and from clients.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
However, I drag myself out of bed to do a job I hate!
Combine both our worlds and we'd have the perfect work life balance!!!:D
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
A cup o' cold tea.
Without milk or sugar.
Or tea.
In a cracked cup, an' all.
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
Aye, 'e was right.
Aye, 'e was.
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
Cardboard box?
Aye.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
You were lucky.... :D
Hahaha :D :D
Ideas for cheap vans-- http://www.stillstoked.co.uk/travel/
Lower the average working week to 30 hours I say :-) If everyone did a 4 day week, we might even be as productive as we are now, as people would be more motivated and do the same work in 4 days as takes them 5 now!!! If you follow my drift lol Actually get them continual dole wallers to do the 5th days work for us to justify their benefits, and if they dont know the job they can spend the time getting trained up to do it in future!!
And all the research I have ever read indicates that, after a certain amount of income to cover basic needs, increases in income simply does not offer a significantly similar increase in happiness. We human beings tend to simply adapt to any pay/income rise and generally always want a bit more. From what I've read on happiness, it's often more about giving than recieving and valuing what we already have. Fundamentally the love of my family, my health and good friends mean so much more than making money.
Well, my experiment in change starts tomorrow morning. Hopefully farewell to always packed rucksack and 'case, never managing to actually turn up to planned events because work called and spending birthdays alone in hotel rooms.
But to make you all smile, it already looks like I'm sleeping in my new rather nice office (a window and everything) as the company has'nt quite booked the accommodation that was part of the deal -oops!
Now, how do I get a van?
I will be in Gloucester ll week running a jobQuote:
Originally Posted by Lola
Id be surprised if I will bother with the travel inn booking and just stay in the van all week. Lola just go and buy one
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Tell you what though you still need your luxury items
I recommend a VW Transporter - Preferably a sportline if you want to be abit 'bling bling' ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lola
What about a Type 25 camper, much better than an office floor.
http://www.scoobyphotos.eclipse.co.u...an/van_002.jpg
Just back from Duddon. It really was lovely camping at Turner Hall and looking out over the campsite at dusk, at least half of which must've been fellrunners. It had a real festival atmosphere - in a very quiet way.
I was eyeing all the campervans / conversions enviously ...
Oh what have I done:confused:
Really good group of people at the new job but the housing is 'interesting'. Challenging might be a better word and locking myself out at 8 o'clock last night after the fire alarms went was not funny - shorts an Tshirt in the rain. The job has been empty for several months so I'm self teaching but several colleagues are trg for Ironman Roth and the tea bar is free for the first month so it looks promising.
Not been paid yet so no van I'm afraid.
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Originally Posted by Lola
Oh. Yes that does sound interesting!!! You need a van asap :D
I have an interview next week for a job in Leeds. I am already aware of the fact that they are looking to promote someone from within their own team, so I am not expecting an offer... Yet I can't help thinking "what if..." :rolleyes: It would bring my work life balance a little closer to where I would like it to be that's for sure.
One Hill,
I remember last year when you were convinced you had'nt got your current job and how excited you were when it came good so... chin up and go for it, have confidence; the whole FRA is supporting you:)
Good luck!!Quote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
Coming 'up north' to Leeds is definately the right direction ;)
Oohh! Good luck OHW!! Is it BBC again/still?Quote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
Wrong side o'Pennines though! (ducks, runs for cover but was last seen as the howling mob closed in!)
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Originally Posted by Wheeze
If there ever was an invite for Aunt Sally, this is it;):D
Good luck and when you get the job see you for some ales in the Calder Valley!Quote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
Here is all this support and I hadn't popped in :o
Thanks everyone - we will see what happens. I went to see my old boss today for some tips (he is the equivalent of one of the panel so has experience on the other side). He seemed very positive so you never know. :D
As some clever bugger once said - "it's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got" - that's what makes you contented.
I'm not overly fond of my job, but it's paying the bills and lets me get out and about on my days off. At the moment I'm sat doing nowt but type this and listening to old northern soul stuff on youtube...
Got offered a job in Leeds :D
But not the right offer at the current time :( I have just rang the man and turned it down. That was tough - making big life affecting decisions is so tough!
Absolutely worth going for it though. Aside from the interview experience, and getting to meet the right people in the right places, I have information which will help me to negotiate a promotion locally - I was under the impression it was something that it wasn't possible for them to do but apparently not :cool: We will see.
Some very good posts on this threads, seems like quite a few like minded folk out there. Just moved to Scotland to be with the girlfriend, good hills and the love of a good woman
As of thursday im going to be starting a work-experience placement for a year.
Alongside my part time job at sainsburys i'll be doing 53.5 hours a week in total.
The placement isnt paid for either.
Not sure how the hell im going to fit running in anymore. Especially when I'll have to leave the office at the placement and head straight for Sainburys.
As of next year im ditching 1 of my college subjects in order to do a BTEC in Outdoor education to boost my chances of getting into uni. A big choice as it means commuting to somewhere every week from Manchester for 1 day to study once again at level 2 (GCSE level) and also means i have to drop a more academic lesson (politics) so ive had my cake and eaten it and committed myself to Outdoor work by the looks of things. Still got RE, German and History as a back up though
When does the benefit of having employment get outweighed by the misery of the job?
Some would say "when you are living to work, rather than working to live".Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
The converse of that is that "living to work" implies that you are enthralled with the job; whereas "working to live" is a "must do drudgery, just to survive".
All very deep & complex. I guess it has to be worked through on an individual basis. One size does not fit all.
A while before you start asking the question, I reckon, and when that misery exceeds the misery of being unemployed.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
I can't face coming here any longer, as soon as i walk through the door the black veil descends and i can go until thursday morning before the black mood begins to lift. I dispise the company since the yanks and their accountants took us over, we're just a blood bank for them, they turn up in their droves in golf shirts to have a look round and inspect the safety notice board. My job has become harder and harder to do to the required standard, meeting targets has become more inportant than the quality of products and some of the builds we now turn out are shameful.
I'm trying not to undervalue what it is to have a job but i'm getting to the point where i can't do it to myself any longer and i can't find another position quick enough.
That sounds about right BL, being unemployed is not a happy place to be either I imagine. And as wheezing donkey says that point probably can only be quantified on an individual basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad
Mr B, it's a very tough call - I had a job that made me feel like that once. I used to get to the A1 every working day and soutbound was towards the job I hated, while signs for "The North" taunted me, and I just wanted to go onto the northbound carriage way and bugger off for the day by myself! I almost did so many times.
Sadly though, I had to pay the mortgage somehow. I did however hunt high and low for another job. Maybe I am fortunate as I have something I want to do, so knew what I was looking for, on the downside there are very few oppurtunities in my field, so I just had to wait for something to come up - and it did. Mr B, I think you need to put yourself out there and work towards something that won't make you miserable. When you are in a job like you are now, it eats into your state of mind outside of work too, it is not a good situation to be in and it makes me a bit sad that you are http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/images/icons/icon9.png
My negative moods can sometimes start on sunday, because i know what's coming the next day. I once walked in with my notice in my hand but the MD was off for 10 days, i managed to convince myself it'd be better to wait till i'd got something else and never handed it in.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
Mr BS, out of interest, just what is it that you do, some form of specialist car construction?
"They" do say that it is easier to find another job when you are already in a job - not sure why that might be? More incentive? You look more motivated on applications/CV?
Are you looking for something else MrB?
Wise words Grump!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGrump
No, i qualified as an electrical engineer on maintenance in the chemical industry, i've been made redundant 3 times in 7yrs and i've ended up panel wiring. Maintenance is challenging especially breakdown cover, it requires good fault finding skills, but panel wiring is the same old production line build stuff day in day out. There's a lot of jobs in the FMCG sector at the moment but they're asking for solid PLC (programmable logic controller) programming and interrogation skills which is a device the chemical industry generally doesn't use.Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Been on it for about 8-10mths, it's barren in my sector.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
I'm only looking for a job i've liked in the past and really want to do again; my trade in other words...and yes, there certainly is more to life.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGrump