Taking 2 days to do a one day job

[Soi disant]

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!

The pencil fairie

Second, though. I reckon someone's got a stall on the market for used pencils!

This man has them.

He has them all.

 

[Zerax]

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 ??

 

[telectrix]

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.

 

[ferg]

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 ??

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.

 

[telectrix]

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.

 

[pc1966]

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

Tool ---- is a real addiction!

 

[pc1966]

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.

 

[Soi disant]

Tool ---- is a real addiction!

And no doubt in some reaches of the internet an actual thing.

 

[Soi disant]

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...

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...

 

[UNG]

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

 

[pc1966]

Thankfully I have avoided COVID so far (and with one vaccination down, hopefully forever) but two guys I know who had it took months to get better again However, a couple of other folk were OK after 2-3 weeks.

 

[Let me think]

I find lights are taking longer theses days, possible because a standard 3 bedroom house in the good old days only every required a max of ~8 lights.

Now one room can require that in downlights along, as everyone wants downlights

Current house I'm doing has owner (friend - soon to be no longer) has in excess of 50 downlights at last, and he's worried he doesn't have enough. More lights than an airport runway....

 

[Zerax]

Problem is that close up work is only OK if I can look at it through the bottom of my varifocals...

I find the bottom of a pint glass can work too... well, it works for me and I'm sticking to it !

 

[Deleted account]

I can’t find my wallet! Last time I remember having it was in my office using credit card to pay for postage on a parcel Last night.

I lost it last week too. Wife found it in plain sight.

 

[Deleted account]

Don’t panic, I’ve found it. In plain site again.