Office Blues

[vizsla]

Lifes too short 8hours in bed 8 hours at work ad on traveling jobs at home taking a shower etc it dosnt leave much time for play. Im pretty looky realy that most of my work is around the derbyshire dales and peaks but i feel for those of u stuck in a office. A good way to help this is to get out with the dog for an hour when you get in or get bcuk on ya phone!!!

 

[Bushwhacker]

is that a haiku?

Pfffffffffffttt

 

[outdoorpaddy]

If it is a haiku it wasnt intentional lol
i just thought i'd take a new line every sentence

outdoorpaddy

 

[Retired Member southey]

If it is a haiku it wasnt intentional lol
i just thought i'd take a new line every sentence

outdoorpaddy

30 syllables matey, defiantly not Haiku, no cut or season either.

 

[silentpaddler]

I feel pretty lucky; I mostly work in the country...no traffic except the odd farm tractor. Pretty serene days really. The only problem is I'm self-employed and
my boss is an idiot.

 

[British Red]

I do both now - work when I need to (just about to start again), play smallholder when I don't.

Took me a long time, but I think Mr Feena has the right of it - get off the treadmill.

Like being on a cliff edge, its really on the first step that is scary

 

[mountainm]

get off the treadmill.

Like being on a cliff edge, its really on the first step that is scary

Easier said than done my friend.

 

[British Red]

Tell me about it...took me twenty years. I just wish I had done it sooner

 

[zeBarOOn]

Try cycling or walking to work instead of driving, you can then revel in it for a bit longer.

And stop at the pub on the way back ;-)

 

[mountainm]

cycling the 30 miles into work would certainly keep me fit.

 

[resnikov]

cycling the 30 miles into work would certainly keep me fit.

Cycle to nearest train station then get the train?

 

[mountainm]

Cycle to nearest train station then get the train?

I'd be leaving the house at 7:30 and the train is more expensive than my car.

 

[John Fenna]

Tell me about it...took me twenty years. I just wish I had done it sooner

I jumped ship when aged 20 - I was working in a computer room for a commercial bank - and hated all of it except the stupidly good money!
Quit - packed a rucksack, travelled and had fun for a year, married the girl of my dreams, worked as a freelance/self employed/self unemployed/anything that looked fun (from labourer to clothing factory slave to canoe coach) ever since.
If I did not enjoy the work I quit after discharging my agreed duties/notice.
It is a good thing that I have no kids and - as the wife worked for the Common Market for 4 years as a pool typist and could afford to buy our house cash on the nail - no mortgage. Nearly all our furniture is used but good, our carpets 30 plus years (and second hand when we got them) old, never had a foriegn holiday (except when we won tickets to New York in a raffel...slept on a friends floor for the visit), we buy our clothes mainly in charity shops or make/adapt old to suit (or get them as review samples for my mag work).
My wife is now semi retired, I never earn enough to pay income tax and I drive a heap of a van - but I am a lot happier than if I had stuck with my original career option!
And most days I get to sit under a tree in my local woods where only I have perm to go!

 

[backpacker]

Mike,

I know how you must feel, I travel by car every late afternoon up from Eastbourne to Gatwick Airport to work on night shift and drive through the Ashdown Forest, and there is always something special going through the forest, but the best time is when driving back home just as the sun is coming up and that early morning mist! I have got to admit I have pulled over many a time to see the sun come up and knowing I am the only person there and got the forest to myself, also in the early mornings you see quite a bit of wild life! I can't wait until the shift is over and driving back home although it hasn't stop raining yet!!

 

[Tengu]

Kangaroos and Tigers?????

 

[Neumo]

I am having the best of both worlds at the moment. I have picked up a great paying IT contract 30 minuites drive away, which I get to by driving down some lovely B roads accross the Sussex Weald. It's a great place to work & am getting involved in a huge project that is going to take several years to complete. I work from home half the time and have lots of great countryside a few minuites away. A laptop & a USB dongle means that 'working from home' can mean 'working from woods' some days. It's not all fun & games as I still have to deliver big complex IT designs for a huge insurance company, but for the moment I can combine country life & big city IT contracting at the same time. Love IT!

That said the last 2 years were pretty bad, having to commute 1 hour 30 minuites each way to earn a decent wage with lots of gaps in between, so I guess it all evens out in the end.

 

[jackcbr]

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Today I parked up - My phone camera doesn't do it justice

You throw in a river with that and I'd be in heaven