Work A Holic

[Ian Flatters]

I don't have children yet. I worked extremely hard 6-7 days a week, long hours and a lot of site. For 7 years whilst I saved enough money to buy a house and allow my wife to stop work.

 

Looking back now as this year I've not worked a single weekend because to be honest I feel completely exhausted. I do bring in a couple of subbies on odd days to give me a rest and allow me to focus to training up my new lad.

 

But it does catch up with you like being hit by a high speed train.

 

When/if we have children I will change my work ethos again. I really don't want to be like my dad having to work long and late, never seeing me or my brother grow up. But then again he was making sure we had money to buy food.

 

Once the mortgage is paid I'll probably offer my lads to buy into the company and take a backseat off the tools. As I really wouldn't want my children to follow a career into arb.

 

Just my thoughts on it.

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Slept for 2 years when I stopped working ...

Lot better now

[stihlmadasever]

Its a balance for me but i love what i do so its not a chore to work but time off/rest is very important in this industry for mental wellbeing more than anything else.

As for days off yeah i like to poke horseshit too

[WillTimberlake]

I would class myself as a work a holic too. I usually work between 17-19 hrs a day, 7 days a week. Never stop unless I'm asleep. Usually get in from pricing late, eat late, do paper work etc late in the evenings and early in the mornings. Me and misses have our ups and downs from me working so much. Luckily I've not got any children yet. Just trying to save for a mortgage whilst building the business up. I try not to work as many hrs as I do but I just can't help myself!

[eggsarascal]

Slept for 2 years when I stopped working ...

Lot better now

 

Some will learn. I hope.

 

I worked every hour that I could when I was between my mid twenties and mid thirties, made myself really ill, had the best part of 18 months off work, (not by choice), never again!

 

Perhaps we're all made of different stuff......

[Stefan Palokangas]

I had a holiday in Loch Ness few weeks ago and I enjoyed it to max, and yes I play everyday and I love it. Trick is to have a passion for what you do, it's not work then it's play time, could have done so many stumps in fort Agustus but machine was at home

[difflock]

I figger in the natural scheme of things, we are most likely to be working long hours providing funds for an uncertain future, while we are young strong and motivated, but also while our own children are young or growing up, then in our later years lovingly watch the grandchildren with a doting eye as their parents, our children, fly about like blue arsed flies, repeating our "mistakes".

A certain rythm and balance to it all, across the generations.

Which is why, really, 3 generations need to live under the one roof, or closeby in the immediate community.

[ArthurBottlesworth]

You could just get a government job and stop working entirely ....!

[difflock]

Aye, but then one ud need to live at 3 different addresses, at least officially for the benefits, or come to think, 6 addresses, 2 by 2 by 2 twice over.

[Steve Bullman]

I really wouldn't want my children to follow a career into arb.

Couldn't agree more on this. I couldn't think of anything worse than my kids doing this for a living. Thankfully I think its highly unlikely that would happen anyway