stress

[TREELINE]

No ive been reading all the other posts and realising what a good bunch you all are.

[TREELINE]

And that made me so happy I changed my avatar to remind me what its all about for me.

[Stephen Blair]

And that made me so happy I changed my avatar to remind me what its all about for me.

 

nice one mate, i find it hard to leave the house in the morning now, before marriage and kids, work was my life. its when i cut back to play huby and dad things went pair shape, i hadnt a plan, i just stopped working as much, but i wasnt in a position to and things got on top of me, now i have the overheads down and no more finance its great. today i was at funworld with the kids for 2 hrs, went a nice walk in the rain and now i am bouncing wee stew on his chair with one foot and watching harry potter with alexander for the millionth time.

[TREELINE]

nice one mate, i find it hard to leave the house in the morning now, before marriage and kids, work was my life. its when i cut back to play huby and dad things went pair shape, i hadnt a plan, i just stopped working as much, but i wasnt in a position to and things got on top of me, now i have the overheads down and no more finance its great. today i was at funworld with the kids for 2 hrs, went a nice walk in the rain and now i am bouncing wee stew on his chair with one foot and watching harry potter with alexander for the millionth time.

 

Ha thats almost the opposite to me! I've cut back to be a daddy cos life was too stressful before! Its true tho that now i'm itching to get back at it cos its quite clear i'm getting lazy (and my wife is far better at it all than me) and this is STRESSING me OUT too (laziness not jealousy of wife).

 

A little bit of what you fancy eh!

Now do we go for the second child shreks - in for a penny I reckon.

[log supplier]

what used to boil my water is when these 2 lads took the P*** on the breaks.. not to mention the spitting and nose blowing when on a job...... aaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh:thumbdown:

there well gone now.. thank god:001_smile:

[Steve Bullman]

treeline...you should check your browser settings...theres no shut off time on arbtalk itself

[gibbon]

Do you think that a lot of the stress comes from the fact that 95% of all domestic work is in out, do it in a day or less jobs? The amount of jobs you need to turn over just to keep busy means you are always chasing work. If the phone goes quiet you stress cos its not coming in.

 

Add to this high cost of machinary, training, insurance and advertising in our industry its no wonder it gets the better of us sometimes.

 

 

 

I had nothing when I went self employed, no savings and from a family with out a penny to bail me out. I now have my own family, bills, mortgage employees still no savings and seem to just roll from one cheque to the next bill. How can this not stress you out?

 

 

I have friends who build or are in landscaping and a job often takes weeks or months. You can afford for the phone to go dead for a few weeks on a job like that. We on the other hand don't seem to have that luxury.

[TREELINE]

treeline...you should check your browser settings...theres no shut off time on arbtalk itself

 

Cheers steve- thats foxed me for ages!

[Lancstree]

Cognitive therapy is well worth trying - just persevere with it and you'll get results. Its not all these irate customers and rubbish staff that make you angry - its how you talk to yourself (in your head!) about it. They might well be annoying to everybody but there are ways and means to deal with other people without questioning yourself and your ability to cope with it

[TREELINE]

Cognitive therapy is well worth trying - just persevere with it and you'll get results. Its not all these irate customers and rubbish staff that make you angry - its how you talk to yourself (in your head!) about it. They might well be annoying to everybody but there are ways and means to deal with other people without questioning yourself and your ability to cope with it

 

"your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding"

Kalil Gibran - The Prophet