Am I the only idiot still at work?

[Martin Pearson]

Steve, I can’t cut vinyl at this time of the day as I work from home just now and other people would complain. Be alright when I get my own place though.
Still I do manage to get weeding and design work done. In fact I have just finished some design work for a customer.

[Chris Wool]

i stopped doing that, when i realized that the type of customer that would have you working that late, is the type that moans at any price. and the only loyalty he has is to his wallet.

hope this is worth it

chris

[Martin.G]

in too much pain to work

managed to get fiberglass fibers in both eyes today, they are swollen and watering like mad, been like that the last 5 hours, my eyes are raw and im fed up beyond belief

[Steve Underhill]

Only reasonI m doing it really is because I have a new shop to open,
Dont have time to do both, anyway just made a makeshift meal of pasta and oyster sauce with some mixed herbs and olive oil,
Thats how late it is and thats how much I cant be bothered going home to cook something
LOL 😛

[Peter Mindham]

Hey Steve Bet I am up BEFORE you !!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
DO you want am alarm call.

Talk later
Peter

[John Childs]

I feel your pain Steve. I did a lot of that sort of thing for quite a few years after I started in this line of work.

I try not to do it now, although it is still easy to get sucked into pulling some long hours stuff. Usually after I’ve bitten off more than I can chew.

Hope the opening goes ok.

[Ben Shaw]

I’m a Stay at home dad during the day, then from 5pm till 2am I am a home business. Then back up at 6. I try to sleep in on Sundays to catch up, but I end up working all weekend because I am a sucker too.

You can tell it’s time to go to bed when the words on the screen make no sense and start moving around.

There will be plenty of time for sleeping when your rich and famous, just hold out to then.

Good luck getting the new shop open.

[Marcella Ross]

quote studio1grafix:

in too much pain to work

managed to get fiberglass fibers in both eyes today, they are swollen and watering like mad, been like that the last 5 hours, my eyes are raw and im fed up beyond belief

ooooohhhhhh, sounds painful!!!! Hope you’re on the mend now.

As for working until all hours – been there and done it before. But now I value my time away from work too much. I work 9-5ish. But I will work on artwork or quotes in the evenings if I have too.

[Adam McGuire]

I do the same thing….Quite often work until 3 or 4am and then up for work at 7.30am.

My Dad’s tinting business gives me the odd manifestation job to do, usually quite large, and they usually ask for a price several weeks to a couple of months ahead of the job. I usually get a sketch, with no real measurements bar the rough size of the window. I am expected to give cost per unit….

The problem arises when we get the go ahead and I only get 2 to 3 days notice that 40m of 50mm squares one 100mm centres are required….or whatever the job turns out to be. I know it’s easy to draw, it’s the cutting, weeding and taping that takes me into the early hours! Then because it’s usually opal frost, I need to highlight all the work so the fitters can see where to start from 🙂

As I can’t afford to leave my job at the moment, (fingers crossed for about 2 months from now 🙂 ) it really takes it’s toll on me.

I keep stressing that customers can’t demand we fit a particular job "on Wednesday" when it’s Monday. This causes a row at home 🙁

And like now, I can’t do anything for my business because work have sent me to Barking and Dagenham Council for the week and I’m stuck in a hotel!

Lol Rant over 🙂

Adam

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I work from about 6 or 6:30 am till about 6 in the evening.
When my plotter is running I lurk on sign forums or do design work.
I used to work at nights till I was about half dead but I’m getting too old for that stuff.
In the evenings I just veg with my youngest son.
Invariably in winter I get lots of painted work, and I’m too cheap to heat my garage. So oftentimes I’ll have a 4×8 sign laid out on the dining room table.
I cook supper every night too for the whole family and sometimes I even get the dishes washed.
Love….Jill

[Lynn Normington]

we some times work quite late one of us cooks dinner but the machine washes the pot’s !!!!! 😀

Lynn

[Adam McGuire]

annoyingly, I have to drive home for my tea 🙂 Then do the dishes!

[Peter Normington]

Its easy for me to say,
but if you have to work long hours, you really need to evaluate if its worth it.

If you are fit and young like me 😉 then 20 hours a day is no problem(yes I have been there)…but its fine if you are realising £35 ph minimum(working from home or a business)

but You need to earn about £90 ph for what you do. that way you should not need to work all the hours god sends…just 8 a day, or if work is slack 2 or 3

Strange how signage is supposed to be a good earner,
but still people work their butts off.

Dont live to work
work to live
life is short…..
Enjoy your work…
but love your life

Peter

[David Rogers]

quote Peter Normington:

….Strange how signage is supposed to be a good earner…

strange that it’s usually non-signmakers that think this!!

quote :

Dont live to work
work to live
life is short…..
Enjoy your work…
but love your life

Peter

too true…or you might end up working all day then coming home and spending umpteen hours on a signmaking forum :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

😀

[Phill Fenton]

I agree with Peter – dont undervalue your time and charge a reasonable rate for what you do (£35 per hour is reasonable). If you’re going to have to be up all night then double it!

Otherwise – go home and spend some time with your family and let some other mug do it!!

[David Rowland]

See my time on this post… yep, i am going to be here all night

Bloody printer… bloody cnc and bloody colegues with crazy ideas.

I would leave but at 5am I am likely to change clear vinyl for white vinyl.

I normally do late mornings to evenings… i am single so that is why

[Lynn Normington]

Dave if you spend that long at work thats probably why you are single 😀

Lynn

[Martin Pearson]

Dave, the first paragraph on your website home page just about says it all :lol1:

So I take it everyone else does the days with you !!

[David Rowland]

its true martin… we did… although that paragraph is almost a year old

Well i did do an all nighter, had no choice this time. Then went home at 7:30am

[Robert Lambie]

i normally call it a day at 3am on here… work all day doing signs till around 6pm-7pm… home dinner… on the net while watching tv… then into office to work on the site behind the scenes… i get most done from about 12pm-3am as the boards slow down and so do the emails.
im determined to cut back till about midnight these days… ill see how i go. :lol1:

[Lee Ballard]

A couple of weeks ago to get an urgent (though good paying) order out I had three hours sleep out of 65 hours.

Spent three complete nights in the office, printing, laminating, cutting, heat pressing.

Had help for two nights and a Monty Python boxset for the third.

I tell myself never again but then again it’s Sunday afternoon and I have just got back from replacing the front on an old light box. (PS I hate old light boxes)

[David Rowland]

I am currently in preparing a print file for fitting wednesday… so i am just trying to get the slow bit done and good time to dry.

[Martin Pearson]

Dave, I know it is true, I have seen the time you make some of your posts. Just saying that your website confirms what most of us already know about the hours you work.
Long as nobody does what I did and make themselves extremely ill through overworking which is so easy to do.

[John Childs]

Check the time. And I’ve been here an hour already.

The joys of insomnia. 😀