- Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
- Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!
Irritation
Collapse
X
-
-
Perhaps you need a good break. If you've not been benched for a while you might feel better for taking some time out rather than going straight into another contract.
Contracting is stressful for many reasons and it can take its toll after a while. Plus you've been unwell lately, you've had some worries regarding your daughter's association with a good friend who may be on drugs so it's probably all getting you down and perhaps you're not fully aware of the impact all this has had on you. Being a parent is stressful enough as it is, without being a full time contractor as well.
It might be worth seeing your quack just to make sure you are physically OK too. Even if your emotional state is not due to physical reasons, being depressed is common these days and nothing at all to be ashamed of, so go and have some 'me time' and get yourself checked out.
Comment
-
When I am feeling stressed I do indeed find that shoving things up my @rse is most relaxing.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)Comment
-
-
Originally posted by xoggoth View PostWhen I am feeling stressed I do indeed find that shoving things up my @rse is most relaxing.
shakes head
Confusion is a natural state of beingComment
-
Sounds like the dreaded menopause Sandy.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. LewisComment
-
Yeah she is just getting oldOriginally posted by Board Game Geek View PostSounds like the dreaded menopause Sandy.Comment
-
HRT
HTHThe squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to graveComment
-
-
MenopauseOriginally posted by SandyDown View PostHow does one avoide feeling so irritated about anything.... I am not sure what's happening, recently I've been sooooo irritable, in every meeting I feel like standing up and shouting: 'Shove it up yer arse'
This is not normal for me, usually am cool, and full of smiles (well fake ones) but recently I just want to murder work people!! tuk tuk tuk.. anyone has a remedy (arrrrrrgh why did I have to mention Remedy .....flip $hit and shove it up yer arse !!)
HTHComment
- Home
- News & Features
- First Timers
- IR35 / S660 / BN66
- Employee Benefit Trusts
- Agency Workers Regulations
- MSC Legislation
- Limited Companies
- Dividends
- Umbrella Company
- VAT / Flat Rate VAT
- Job News & Guides
- Money News & Guides
- Guide to Contracts
- Successful Contracting
- Contracting Overseas
- Contractor Calculators
- MVL
- Contractor Expenses
Advertisers
Contractor Services
CUK News
- IT contractor demand defied seasonal slump in December 2025 Today 07:10
- Five tax return hacks for contractors as Jan 31st looms Yesterday 07:45
- How to land a temporary technology job in 2026 Jan 9 07:01
- Spring Forecast 2026 ‘won’t put up taxes on contractors’ Jan 8 07:26
- Six things coming to contractors in 2026: a year of change, caution and (maybe) opportunity Jan 7 06:24
- Umbrella companies, beware JSL tunnel vision now that the Employment Rights Act is law Jan 6 06:11
- 26 predictions for UK IT contracting in 2026 Jan 5 07:17
- How salary sacrifice pension changes will hit contractors Dec 24 07:48
- All the big IR35/employment status cases of 2025: ranked Dec 23 08:55
- Why IT contractors are (understandably) fed up with recruitment agencies Dec 22 13:57

Comment