Hours you work?

[Hoghead]

Zero hours by choice now. Use to be 60 to 70 hours during the week and 3/4 at weekends preparing for the week ahead
Was compensated with an overall pay packet of around £100k pa excluding bonus but Inc pension, car allowance, BUPA etc. Didn't live a life style that reflected my earnings as I knew it wouldn't last forever and saved / invested so I can stop work now.
Regarding housing, in the close I live in there are 10 houses that are 4/5 bed of which 6 of them have 3 or less people living in them and will not increase. The people are all under 60 years old and the houses built 10 years ago. The trick I think is how to encourage these people to downsize therefore allowing growing families homes to move into. We intend to downsize in the next couple of years ourselves.

 

[bugsyblue]

they don't have our stupid housing costs and we subsidise their rail fares and utility costs lol !! Sad fact is many would call the French ( and Spanish and Italians etc ) lazy. Maybe they just have got it right?

What do you mean we subsidise their rail and utility costs?

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Zero hours by choice now. Use to be 60 to 70 hours during the week and 3/4 at weekends preparing for the week ahead
Was compensated with an overall pay packet of around £100k pa excluding bonus but Inc pension, car allowance, BUPA etc. Didn't live a life style that reflected my earnings as I knew it wouldn't last forever and saved / invested so I can stop work now.
Regarding housing, in the close I live in there are 10 houses that are 4/5 bed of which 6 of them have 3 or less people living in them and will not increase. The people are all under 60 years old and the houses built 10 years ago. The trick I think is how to encourage these people to downsize therefore allowing growing families homes to move into. We intend to downsize in the next couple of years ourselves.

have to be enough small houses in nice areas for it to work, and some kind of incentive. Equally, neighbourhoods aren't going to be happy if house prices come down because less "desirable" large families of let's say, a more council estate class, move into the area.

 

[bluethrunthru]

What do you mean we subsidise their rail and utility costs?

EDF energy milking uk bill payers - rail companies owned by various foreign nationalised railways - Dutch/German etc - all taking money out of our system and using it in their companies at home to keep costs down - why do you think they flock here to buy these things? Altruism?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

You’re a blathering uninformed idiot.
My French electricity is far more expensive than my UK electricity.

 

[Bewar3them00n]

40hr week, no overtime, occasionally I will work late to meet a deadline, but very rarely.
Virtually everyone in the office has kids, so it's working late is not encouraged.
It takes 15-20 min to work during school holidays, and upto 45 during term time coming home.
I've been at the same place for 4 years, mainly because we have a great team, no office politics, and it's close to home.
I earn £41k so the money is good. I've been offered jobs in London for similar or less ( I work outside London) but I've turned down every opportunity, because the extra stress and cost of commuting into London, as well as the modern dangers, means it's just not an attractive proposition.
I value my quality time with the kids, and working local affords me that, as well as other extra curricular activities during the week.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

Thirty hours and far too many for my appetite.
If I could climb off that hamster wheel right now then I would.
The old adage of work to live don't live to work comes to mind.
I am now a rampant part time "weekend socialist" seeking enlightenment and release from the shackles of modern day oppression.
Here is a quick tale comrades concerning perspective.

A businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish.

“How long did it take you to catch them?” The businessman asked.
“Only a little while.” The fisherman replied.

“Why don’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?” The businessman then asked.
“I have enough to support my family’s immediate needs.” The fisherman said.
“But,” the businessman then asked, “What do you do with the rest of your time?”

The fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life, señor.”

The businessman scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds you buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats.”

“Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to consumers, eventually opening your own can factory. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The fisherman asked, “But señor, how long will this all take?”

To which the businessman replied, “15 to 20 years.”

“But what then, señor?”

The businessman laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

“Millions, señor? Then what?”

The businessman said slowly, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos…”

 

[Hoghead]

have to be enough small houses in nice areas for it to work, and some kind of incentive. Equally, neighbourhoods aren't going to be happy if house prices come down because less "desirable" large families of let's say, a more council estate class, move into the area.

New housing estates have to have a proportion of social type housing, a mix of apartments, semis & dedatched. I think the problem has been with this philosophy that there hasn't been enough family size housing built which has meant that this has forced prices up and then flowed down because they can't afford the family homes unless they get enough for theirs.

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

Work 41hrs per wk, works 15min drive so convinient, 32k salarys ok, jobs good, downside is having to work all 3 shifts on a 2wk roatation

 

[CTID1988]

35. 14 of them I "work" from home, so in reality a lot less