Could you take a year off?

[northernladuk]

I can live for a year BECAUSE I don't have a partner

So Eek is a just a casual thing then?

[kevpuk]

Could (just about) but wouldn't

[SimonMac]

Is that how you plan to die as well?

No, I plan to die in a binge of cocaine and hookers*



*Horlicks and a cat

[SimonMac]

So Eek is a just a casual thing then?

Touchy subject at the moment, imminent divorce

[TheFaQQer]

I can live for a year BECAUSE I don't have a partner

I run my books so that I need to bill for 8 months in any 12

[TheFaQQer]

Could (just about) but wouldn't

Is that because the rate is high, the outgoings low, partner works, any / all of those?

The only way I can really see being able to live off six months work would be to cut back a lot on the luxuries and the expensive holidays, so I'm interested to see how other people manage to do it.

[SimonMac]

Do I need to explain everything?

No partner means controlled expenditure!

Controlled expenditure means ability to forwards plan!

Ability to forward plan means I know I only need to bill for 8 months in every 12!

Billing for the last 15 months + carry over warchest from previous years means I could afford to take 12 months off!

That and I have never bought an old church

[alreadypacked]

Spent about 6 years working 7-8 months a year. Spent to winters in the sun sometimes getting paid for it.

Currently buying property, but hope to go back to winters in the sun in about 2 years. Could take a year off now, but see something I want to buy.

[TheFaQQer]

Billing for the last 15 months + carry over warchest from previous years means I could afford to take 12 months off!

That's the important bit - carry over warchest having billed for fifteen months. The original question was "if you worked solidly for twelve months, could you then afford to take the following year off?", not "if you worked solidly for fifteen months, could you then afford to take the following year off?"

So, I presume that the answer to the original question should have been "no", if you need fifteen months to do it, on the basic premise that fifteen months is longer than a year.

[TheFaQQer]

There's one for sale in Port Talbot if yer interested.

Comes complete with fully stocked graveyard.

Link?

And the usual fallout from the steelworks.

I was interested up until that point.