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I'm 74. a 1 day job takes 2 days, mainly because I'm buggered after 5 hours in a day (with a couple of smoke and beer breaks).
lol.
its getting that way for me has well putting things down on the floor mostly screwdrivers in front of me next thing they are at the back of me ,either I'm losing my mind or the bloody screw driver have legs .
The rifts in the space time continuum are becoming more prevalent, all dropped screws or tools fall through them, I am sure they move to accommodate the falling item, it used to be only tapes and pencils, now it's everything I was using a minute ago.
i have a tendencies of dropping smalls screws especially light wall ones on the floor and watch with way they go when thier is no carpet on the floor and cracks in the floor boards ,you need eyes of a hawk looking down from a thousand feet looking for the prey..
Vortigern
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Since the old ticker has gone a bit haywire I am definitely slower. As a result of which I am converting my garage to a workshop and making musical instruments like harp and guitar. I have a dozen jobs repairing guitars and the such like already and nearly finished the conversion. Fortunately I have a stand in for work on the books and still taking work. But up until that point jobs have always been completed in time if anything I have become more efficient and faster doing office refits for instance.
In fact the younguns that work for me invariably are slow and have no stamina. Usually they are shot by 2 p.m. and can't even think straight by the afternoon. There have been exceptions but they are still way slower than me doing connections especially fiddly ones.
In fact the younguns that work for me invariably are slow and have no stamina. Usually they are shot by 2 p.m. and can't even think straight by the afternoon. There have been exceptions but they are still way slower than me doing connections especially fiddly ones.
Interesting ...I know of 3 guys that have had enough of jobs, vans and the whole farce .They all want out And have a nice set up in a shed/garage etc fixing stuff .less issues , nearly as much money . very few hoops to try and jump through every time they change the goal posts etc !
That’s another thing, it seems like I loose my screw drivers and other various tools. It seems like you want to keep working because the money is good but damn it seems like I’m buying tools alot
I just in case you end up a pearl Gates busking. Lol.
You guys are estimating all wrong.... from the words of the great Montgomery Scott...
K. "How long to re-fit?"
S. “Eight weeks. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for you in two."
K. "Do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?"
S. "How else to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?"
K. "How long to re-fit?"
S. “Eight weeks. But you don't have eight weeks, so I'll do it for you in two."
K. "Do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?"
S. "How else to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?"
My biggest bugbear about the trade is,if you decide semi retire and do 2 or 3 days a week,you,v still got all
the calibration costs,insurance, part P scams,transport and tools to pay for,so your sort of trapped in the same costs as a guy who works 7 days a week.I,m 72 by the way.
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S
Whippersnapper, ? I bought a retirement home in France some years ago, still have a place in the UK, but in France the draconian rules do not apply a home owner is at liberty to play with the electrics on the other side of the incoming if they wish, the only time this would be checked is on a sale when a electrical diagnostic is carried out.
My favourite trick is to go to get another tool, put down the one I'd had in my hand, go back with the new one, then start where's-the-effing about the one I'd had before....
And not tool related, but a few months ago I was heading for the contemplation room with a cup of tea, and spent a good few minutes walking about looking for the newspaper that was tucked under my arm. ?
Can only be bettered by the Duel with the Devil's advocate by Ry Cooder in the Film Crossroads.
Vortigern
Arms
Herbalist, don't want any of that muck.
Pencils!!! I use the pencil, I then do something else for perhaps 30 seconds. I go to get the pencil again..... and it's gone!!! I don't understand how this impossibility happens every single bloody day!
.......after buying a replacement!!
The pencil fairie
Have you looked behind your ear?
Now that used to be great...'till the eyes began to fail and I started wearing the cheap readers about 20 years back.
Being follicly challenged since eighteen I have never been able to put a pencil behind my ear, so its the one place I know its not.
The problem with Steve Vai isn't that he's not a good guitarist - it's that he isn't as good as he thinks he is.
Gets me with the mobile, sometimes. Why does it switch to silent in my pocket.
Then when I can't find it in the house....phone it from the land line....but the ringer's on silent...have I left it on a job or what? Ggrr!
Second, though. I reckon someone's got a stall on the market for used pencils!
Then when I can't find it in the house....phone it from the land line....but the ringer's on silent...have I left it on a job or what? Ggrr!
Second, though. I reckon someone's got a stall on the market for used pencils!
For me... pencils and tape rules... but what annoys me most is wearing glasses for close up work but not for distance. So they're on/off/on/off/off/on... all bl00dy day... then when you think they're on the top of your head where you left them, but not.. you realise that you must have taken them off somewhere... but where ??
same here. most close work i can do without any glasses, but for really close and tiny terminals i need them. then when i look away, it's all swimming/blurred.
I have recently mastered the art of losing my glasses...
I'm not even 50 yet, although getting close.
I'm not slowing down but I am absolutely knackered by the end of the day.
Still doing 12hrs plus 6 days a week though.
My other half keeps telling me to do less but it's the usual self employed BS... it's hard to say no.
yous need to slow down a bit.then them knees and back and all the other aches and pains could last longer. state pension buys essentials ... beer and smokes. if you wanna eat, youse need to keep working. then slow down a bit at 75 when you get more freebies off the state.
Tool ---- is a real addiction!
I have never been that fast, would rather do things well than rushed, but never been a professional spark either so not had that job-job pressure. I do find things a bit slower now but main annoyance with being mid-50s is the difficulty of up-close reading of stupidly small text on things.
And no doubt in some reaches of the internet an actual thing.
At my last test I was told that I no longer needed glasses for distance vision, and 'tis true. But I've put off switching to reading glasses as I just know with utter cast-iron certainty that I'll be forever losing the expletive things.
Problem is that close up work is only OK if I can look at it through the bottom of my varifocals...
After I had covid in January getting back into work was difficult, one day I was getting annoyed with myself because the job I was doing was taking me much longer than it should, then I realised that i was just getting very fatigued and the mental and physical processes were just getting slower. I was surprised how long it took to get back to normal and tried not to bite off more than I could chew for 3-4 weeks
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