MYSTERY SHOPPING THREAD 18 - please don't mention client names or fees on here!!

GabsRUs

briggsbear wrote: »

its doing my head in, I feel like im missing out of jobs when im out and about :mad:

Briggs I am a mod on a footie board. I sometime get loads of complaints for people accessing the site on their phones who find the site is down. Then they appear back asking us to give the master a kick up the jacksie. Or words to that effect.;)

Now we have discovered it is all Orange users. They are saying this happens several times every month. So I supsect it is something to do with the Orange network.

HTH

Badger_Lady

I'm having such internal dilemma!

Since losing my job I've been dashing around all over the place, getting myself all stressed out and tired even though I don't have to go to work! I just want a holiday now - this isn't what unemployment is supposed to feel like.

Problem is, I committed to doing nine car dealers today but haven't yet made it out of bed I'm not doing well here, folks...

Oh and I can't for the life of me find my notebook with the notes from the visits I've already done!

briggsbear

GabsRUs wrote: »

Briggs I am a mod on a footie board. I sometime get loads of complaints for people accessing the site on their phones who find the site is down. Then they appear back asking us to give the master a kick up the jacksie. Or words to that effect.;)

Now we have discovered it is all Orange users. They are saying this happens several times every month. So I supsect it is something to do with the Orange network.

HTH

I know what you mean, it sucks when the hamster dies for no reason haha

briggsbear

Badger_Lady wrote: »

I'm having such internal dilemma!

Since losing my job I've been dashing around all over the place, getting myself all stressed out and tired even though I don't have to go to work! I just want a holiday now - this isn't what unemployment is supposed to feel like.

Problem is, I committed to doing nine car dealers today but haven't yet made it out of bed I'm not doing well here, folks...

Oh and I can't for the life of me find my notebook with the notes from the visits I've already done!

sounds like you are stressing yourself out due to lack of organisation. Plan your day and visits out and you will see what you can and cant achieve. 9 jobs in a day could be pushing it

GabsRUs

briggsbear wrote: »

I know what you mean, it sucks when the hamster dies for no reason haha

I know. Technology can completely defeat me at times. I got satnav a year or so ago. It is very useful for going places I haven't been before. Sometimes though it just defeats me. Tells me to take next left in 150 yards downa a street that isn't there. Told me one day when I missed a turn off to do a u turn on a motorway.

Never quite sure if it is taking me the quickest route or not but it usually gets me there. Before I used to print of directions on Google but you can't check that while driving.

lalli_pickle

Badger_Lady wrote: »

I'm having such internal dilemma!

Since losing my job I've been dashing around all over the place, getting myself all stressed out and tired even though I don't have to go to work! I just want a holiday now - this isn't what unemployment is supposed to feel like.

Problem is, I committed to doing nine car dealers today but haven't yet made it out of bed I'm not doing well here, folks...

Oh and I can't for the life of me find my notebook with the notes from the visits I've already done!

OK, so think about it this way...

Firstly you're not unemployed you're self employed. You may not have a "job" but you sound like you're still doing a lot of "work".

When you work for someone else you're told when to turn up and what to do, when you work for yourself you're responsible for everything :eek:
When you work for someone else, you get paid a guaranteed wage, when you work for yourself you only get what you earn based on what work you can do.

You sound like you've gone into full panic mode at losing your job and you're now rushing around like a headless chicken trying desperately to make as much money as you can.

And ultimately, working for yourself is very stressful because of all of the above as any self employed person will tell you.

As mentioned above, organisation is key, as is self discipline. You'll be kicking yourself later and running yourself ragged trying to do all the jobs you have today because you stayed in bed whereas if you'd gotten up and done them you'd be halfway through by now. Procrastination is your enemy and actually makes things much more stressful.

The best thing you can do for yourself is to give yourself one whole day a week off. Do the household bits in the evenings and the work in the days so that when you get to your day off you have absolutely nothing that needs doing. Then you'll have one free day where you can do whatever you like with no stress which will set you up for the rest of the week, after all, if you were employed you wouldn't work 7 days a week!

In terms of organisation, you could have an intray where you put all the notes for jobs you havent yet done? Print them as soon as you allocate them and staple together if more than one page then at least they're all in one place. I find a lever arch file useful, divided into company's ie RE, GAP and I just bung the notes in the right section and drag the file around with me. I then move them from the working file to the finished file once I've done the job. If you file them in first position each time then they're even in rough date order if you ever need to drag them out again. Lever arch files are my saviour

Can't think of anything else useful to say (and I've gone on quite a bit) so I'll just wish you good luck for now. Hope everything works out in the meantime

Badger_Lady

Thanks guys!

Yeah, my problem is that I didn't really plan to do this. I've always done MS on the side, and when I found out about the main job last week I said, "well I've got loads of spare time now so bring them on!".

But actually I do have a business idea that I intend to persue in the long-term because it's much more lucrative and mainly home-based, and I should be focusing on sorting that out. Combined with getting called back to the office for meetings with HR, interviews for full-time jobs (keeping options open), reorganising the house, friends wanting to catch up with me, and an amateur dramatics production going on stage in a fortnight, I've bitten off more than I can chew!

Also I'm still using the work laptop at the moment, which means I can't connect it to my home printer (no admin rights to set up the software) so I have to hand write everything instead of using the office printer .

MrsGSR

Well I managed my first assignment and it must have been ok as I got paid and was offered two other assignments almost immediately after! only thing was by the time I logged in to accept they had both gone.:(

Am doing my first one for another company in a week- it's a pharmacy one.

It's a slow start but sure more will come available soon.:)

polythenegirl

With the pharmacies that are on ESA - Is it just me or is that an awful lot of work for the fee? Is it worth it?

misssarahleigh

polythenegirl wrote: »

With the pharmacies that are on ESA - Is it just me or is that an awful lot of work for the fee? Is it worth it?

I've only ever done one and if i recall it's normally an extra £2 more than it states now (somebody jump in if i'm wrong).

And for me personally, i aint going to bother.