Basically I was working 60+hrs per week without break, making mistakes, not spending time assessing costs, no budgetting, prob put off a lot of prospective clients because I was so involved in my work I couldn't relate to them...all of the above.
Any photographers amoungst you guys? Always flirted with the idea of working with images as a business.....
Before anyone starts dissecting, no I don't have an SLR, don't do shows, don't do it as a hobbie, just like the idea of it - be interested to see if anyone here works in film or photography?
Cheers,
K
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THAT'S not the Orion nebula! That's the Eagle nebula or I'm not a martian green toad. 
Be careful, you're friend could be telling other porkies.
Come to think of it, I work a 40 hour week but it feels like 60. Does that count?
When at work, hours vary between minimum 84 and 140+ hours per week if busy(7 day week), 3 on 3 off, soon to be 4 on 4 off. I need the time off to recover. Mortgage free. Girlfriend about to finish PhD and start working again thankfully. No child and no plans to have one.
I'm pretty much a workaholic, as is the girlfriend, so I actually like being at work.
I really enjoy having next to no physical possessions, eating really really good food, little or no inadvertent exposure to the antichrist that is the modern media and shooting the breeze with other people from around the world about life. I also suck at making small talk, and put me in a 'traditional office environment' and I fail for some unknown reason.
I guess I have become somewhat institutionalised to working in this type of environment and could quite happily see myself commuting somewhere to work on something until another hypothetical knee reconstruction is not an option 
I'm not a free as a bird, I'm a loose as a goose who has luckily dodged the noose (touching some wood)
No, not legal at all. After 12 hours it is 'mandatory' to sign in an overtime log, after 16 hours is is mandatory to have an 8 hour 'break'. When the client is paying the operator AUD$11.00+ per second to get stuff done, they tend to really want stuff done.
" Does anyone not work a 40 hour a week"
I,m sure there are lots of people that fall into that catagory, but i,m not one of them!!
I work on offshore rigs/platforms. Conditions have changed for the better in the past decade, though real income levels have been seriously eroded by the cost of living in WA. I earn a good income, but I do come home at times after a busy hitch pretty run down, not so much physically but more mentally. My girlfriend is reasonably understanding, though increasingly less so as she thinks we will be able to live comfortably with her about to start working again, abeit only 3 days per week to start with. She is becoming more insistent that I could take a pay cut and could try and migrate into a town based role. I am not too excited at the prospect of working in a traditional office setting.I fear the whole 'routine' would do my head in.
What I would really like to do is migrate into upstream oil and gas or offshore construction, work for another 5 or 6 years then retire.
Bugger the workin at home job for me. 86hrs + per week in mainly PNG and Phillipines. Come home at the end of a a project and kick back. Life is ok. Couldn't do it if I had kids though.
Gotta be more to lfe than goin to the same workshop/office every day.
My thoughts anyway while on night shift in PNG and its pissin down with rain.
Different strokes for everybody though.
W
