Reply to: Depressed: Back to the grind stone, who's working this weekend ?

[vetran]

Weekend off

No work, No DIY (yep I'm a poor permie now - well most of the time what my slave masters doesn't know won't hurt them).

Kiddies party, dinner with the in laws, grass growing supervision. Great!

[AlfredJPruffock]

time will tell

anyway, until you get above a certain threshold it isn't worth having jack anyway, as you'll have too much to get handouts and not enough to live from

from next summer I'll be doing less weekends

what about the rest of you ?

anyone else trying to make hay while the sun shines, get some wedge in the bank before 40 ? or are you all too old to have goals like this ?

I suppose the key is too start contracting at as young an age as possible.

Milan.

He who would accumulate much wealth , he has much to lose !

[Weltchy]

I'm just about to hit the deployment phase for part of my current project, so I've got a few weekends booked for it. Anyway, I'm in the process of buying a house, so each saturday worked means a little bit extra money for the house.

Plus my Girlfriend is a free-loading uni student!!!!

[Lucifer Box]

And how is Little Damien?

Has he reached the Goldfish Bowl stage yet?

Has the nanny hanged herself?

Progressing nicely (or badly, depending on your point of view).

Oh yes, the nanny's long gone. I'm waiting for the winter now so we can schedule that ice hockey game.

[GeorgeGregan]

I worked 270 days one year, lots of weekends, I found you can do fine if you get one day off but working all weekend starts to grind you down after a few weeks. The money did pour in, but it didn't make me any happier and I ended up blowing it on a flash car when I should have invested/bought property. That was a mistake that might have set me up now and for the future but unless I can borrow threaded's TM then I don't beat myself up about it. I still had plenty of time for fun (there are evenings !).

I found myself a contract with a juicy daily rate and decided to make hay while the sun shines and work as much as possible while it lasted. 14 months without a break (but rarely working weekends) later found myself burned out, depressed and separated from the wife. Obviously would do things differently if I did it again. People contract for the money but it's not the be all and end all, only takes one crisis in your life to put things in perspective.

[Lucifer Box]

I see you identify well with the Simpsons character, I was quite right.

I liked the avatar!

Do you know, I did actually go to Merton Abbey Mills yesterday afternoon while strolling with my wife and son, but did not go in the William Morris (or the KFC)!

[Francko]

I think, Milan, you miss the essential point of what life is all about. You might be run over by a bus tomorrow. While it's quite right and proper to put aside something for the future, you are wasting the best part of your life to achieve something that might be fleeting and illusory, or never happen.

Too much wisdom for Milan, LB. Now, he will have wisdom indigestion. Btw, I see you identify well with the Simpsons character, I was quite right.

[lukemg]

I worked 270 days one year, lots of weekends, I found you can do fine if you get one day off but working all weekend starts to grind you down after a few weeks. The money did pour in, but it didn't make me any happier and I ended up blowing it on a flash car when I should have invested/bought property. That was a mistake that might have set me up now and for the future but unless I can borrow threaded's TM then I don't beat myself up about it. I still had plenty of time for fun (there are evenings !).

[Lucifer Box]

I think, Milan, you miss the essential point of what life is all about. You might be run over by a bus tomorrow. While it's quite right and proper to put aside something for the future, you are wasting the best part of your life to achieve something that might be fleeting and illusory, or never happen.

[boredsenseless]

It will be interesting if we are all in touch when we are 55 and we can see what everybody's situations are.

Milan.

I don't have any problem with working weekends I run a company and work as and when required by the directors but I never work more than five days in any seven day period.

Family is too important to let slip by

[Francko]

It will be interesting if we are all in touch when we are 55 and we can see what everybody's situations are.

Milan.

You'd still be working all weekends as you'll be too worried about the future.

[milanbenes]

nah, it's not about being wealthy none of us are really wealthy are we ?

it's like this, not so long ago, say 7 years ago my biggest worry was enough beer money for a friday, then suddenly it dawned on me, you;ve got to get a house and get a roof over your head sorted out, then not so long after the house is getting under control you start to think, jeez if I'm early thirties and I want to retire at 55, then I have ~25 years to accumulate enough dosh to live on after 55 to say 85

this folks is why I am working a few weekends while the opportunity exists, next contract it may not exist, but the need to put a pension pot aside will never go away and cannot be ignored and as everybody knows, whack a load into it in your early thirties and it _should_ be a good foundation for a decent lump to retire on at 55.

Next year maybe there won't be contracting, maybe there will only be permy work, who knows ? A little sacrifice now for a more comfortable future.

It will be interesting if we are all in touch when we are 55 and we can see what everybody's situations are.

Milan.

[Lucifer Box]

who else is working this weekend, and next weekend and the weekend after ?

No one ever died, went to heaven and said, "I wish I'd spent more more time in the office". Get out, Milan. Your illusory dreams of untold wealth just aren't worth it.

[wendigo100]

As a freelancer, I work when it suits. This can be any of the seven days in a week.

[TheMonkey]

I really don't understand working weekends! I never have since permiedom where I was abused with false promises of overtime. Now I do contracted hours on contracted days and get home to see the wife and kids every day at a reasonable time.