Reply to: Working away from home

[RichardCranium]

Another option not on the poll:

• We cannot spend time apart so she packed up her career and created a new one, self-employed, so she could follow me around the country and now she works from hotel rooms so that we can always sleep together.

We didn't get married to live apart.

[NickFitz]

I'm finding that if I fill my evenings with stuff it's not so bad.

trundling around in my wheelbarrow

[MPwannadecentincome]

I'm leaving 'er indoors anyway so if i have to live elsewhere just might end up nearer a decent gig

[NotAllThere]

My first contract was in Kent, when I was living in Wiltshire. My second contract was in Somerset - but by then I'd moved to Essex...

I hate being away from home, but hate having no income much more. As does the wife. It's just something that goes with the territory. And even with weekly commuting, I'm able to take more holidays. The worst was a very early flight Monday morning, and a very late flight Friday evening.

For the past 4 years though, I've been in contract 20 mins from home. And I've just picked up a concurrent one that I can fulfill from my home office.

[BoredBloke]

Hang in there people it's get better with networking...

4 nights away was typical in my early years and I hated it. I'm down to 2 nights away now and it's all down to building trust with clients.

SC I hear you scream, well I've had jobs where SC is required and still I'm taking my work away with me.

Building trust is the key to working offsite more often.

Let me say it again just in case it did not get through - trust, ken? Trust... it's like hard work but it works, honest...

I've been here for 10 months and they won't consider it for contractors. Asi it's the 2nd furthest away from home it's bloody annoying

[scooterscot]

Hang in there people it's get better with networking...

4 nights away was typical in my early years and I hated it. I'm down to 2 nights away now and it's all down to building trust with clients.

SC I hear you scream, well I've had jobs where SC is required and still I'm taking my work away with me.

Building trust is the key to working offsite more often.

Let me say it again just in case it did not get through - trust, ken? Trust... it's like hard work but it works, honest...

[DieScum]

I used to work away all the time now I work from home full time.

Nice working from home, and must be great if you have kids, but I sometimes miss the working away.

You get a few rumpled faces when you say that working away isn't so bad but I'm not really a home in the suburbs kind of guy.

[Andy2]

I drink beer, eat well, and sleep better.

WHS ++

[doodab]

How do you / the other half cope with the fact that 4 nights a week you're away?

I drink beer, eat well, and sleep better.

[Sockpuppet]

How do you / the other half cope with the fact that 4 nights a week you're away?

Simple. I don't have one

Seriously though I'm like working away at the moment as I get to be really selfish and only care about myself. Just been asked to do a starts in April will involve working from 35 sites in Europe

Not sure I'd be up for doing that if I had to authorise it with her indoors.


Also I'd be convinced she's be ordered more milk, having the windows cleaned and breaking the fridge more than would strictly be necessary.

[Alf W]

Fortunately I've never had to work away from home on a regular basis. My unwillingness to do so probably meant my 2009 benched spell was longer than it could have been but I held out until I got something within a half hour commute.

[DiscoStu]

my Mrs also knows we wouldn't have a fraction of the things we have if contracting was not there - take the passat as a case point

Sometimes on CUK there's a post that just brightens up your day. This is one of them. Top work Milan

[milanbenes]

less of the little

Milan.

[Churchill]

Winston just said in two lines what it took me half a page to say

Milan.

Hey, don't beat yourself up about it little buddy! Have a (manly)

[cailin maith]

It's the quickest most efficient way for us to set things up for the future.

I don't like it, SWMBO doesn't like it but it's a means to an end.



Churchill - In "Cheerfulness in the face of adversity" mode!

Pretty much what he said... means to an end.

It's new to me - the working away in the week thing, I mean. I'm finding that if I fill my evenings with stuff it's not so bad. Plus makes the weekends soooo much better.

If the only decent roles are down south then eventually, we'll have to consider making a move I suppose... but thats a little way down the line yet.

Maybe we need a CUK WAGs forum for us left at home