Hours

[Mark Bolam]

7 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

I think it also depends on whether they want to be employed , subbie climber with kit, or set up their own company.

As an employed climber you'll have fairly set hours and it'll pretty much a job like any other. 40ish hours weekly and usual holidays etc 

 

If you're good enough, subbie work is probably the best money for least investment and you more or less manage your own hours. Much better day rate but no paid leave and your own insurance.

 

If the long term plan is to set up a company and employ staff then prepare for lots of long hours, weekends, sleepless nights etc or a decade of crippling debt. Whichever you prefer.

You get all the responsibility and cost, which can be a burden but if you get it right you can make almost as much as an employed climber!

 

I’d agree with most of that Conor, a good freelance climber is a good bang for buck earner, albeit with a limited shelf life.

Not many will make it into their 40’s, let alone 50’s.

 

The only insurance you might want to have is personal accident.

Anything else is bollocks.

[Mick Dempsey]

7 hours ago, Conor Wright said:

I think it also depends on whether they want to be employed , subbie climber with kit, or set up their own company.

As an employed climber you'll have fairly set hours and it'll pretty much a job like any other. 40ish hours weekly and usual holidays etc 

 

If you're good enough, subbie work is probably the best money for least investment and you more or less manage your own hours. Much better day rate but no paid leave and your own insurance.

 

If the long term plan is to set up a company and employ staff then prepare for lots of long hours, weekends, sleepless nights etc or a decade of crippling debt. Whichever you prefer.

You get all the responsibility and cost, which can be a burden but if you get it right you can make almost as much as an employed climber!

Bloody hell Connor! She’s a 17 year old girl.

Think you’re looking a bit too far ahead.

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Biggest problem for girls in our trade I would say is TOILET! By the way I work about 6 hours per day but that bashing like no tomorrow and there is a young woman working with me full time from now . And person who worrie about working hours not even started actual job ………. At 18 I was working 10 hours per day 6 day week no problemos 🫡

[Joe Newton]

12 minutes ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

Biggest problem for girls in our trade I would say is TOILET! By the way I work about 6 hours per day but that bashing like no tomorrow and there is a young woman working with me full time from now . And person who worrie about working hours not even started actual job ………. At 18 I was working 10 hours per day 6 day week no problemos 🫡

There's a stump grinding guy on here who would make those hours look like a part time job.

 

Personally I prefer to work reasonably quickly for the shortest time possible to get the earliest finish I can. I choose who I work for accordingly. 

[Ty Korrigan]

I noticed that having a woman in the team changes the behaviour of the 'boys' and her presence is appreciated by clients, especially other women.

 I would dearly love to have a female apprentice but Alex is a pretty boy so next best thing.

  

[peds]

40 minutes ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

And person who worrie about working hours not even started actual job ………. At 18 I was working 10 hours per day 6 day week no problemos 🫡

 

Unpopular opinion: young people should be encouraged to work unpleasantly long hours for shitty employers so they can get a taste of what hard work is. Only after a few years of that are they allowed to even think about a 6-8 hour day.

[Mark Bolam]

Absolutely!

 

It’s like repeatedly hitting yourself in the nuts with a hammer for a while.

 

It’s great when you stop!

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

9 minutes ago, peds said:

 

Unpopular opinion: young people should be encouraged to work unpleasantly long hours for shitty employers so they can get a taste of what hard work is. Only after a few years of that are they allowed to even think about a 6-8 hour day.

Maybe you right.

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

15 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

I noticed that having a woman in the team changes the behaviour of the 'boys' and her presence is appreciated by clients, especially other women.

 I would dearly love to have a female apprentice but Alex is a pretty boy so next best thing.

  

I can agree with that ,plus once client is a woman she  get  tips guaranteed 🫡 Man  usually stunt😂

Edited November 26 by Sviatoslav Tulin

[Conor Wright]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Bloody hell Connor! She’s a 17 year old girl.

Think you’re looking a bit too far ahead.

Point taken.

 

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Bloody hell Connor! She’s a 17 year old girl.

Think you’re looking a bit too far ahead.

Maybe I am. Maybe not. just thinking back to when I was about that age, maybe even a bit younger. I kinda had an idea where I wanted to end up and what I liked doing. Had no clue how to join the dots though.

 

I do like to think all the youth (jaysus, I sound like an ould lad) aren't a complete lost cause. 17 is the perfect time to start planning out your life goals imo.