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Comping & Working Full Time

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  • cg1982
    cg1982 Posts: 8,961 Forumite
    i work full time run run a household with 2 children and comp in the evening takes me about 2 hours but im up early most mornings and get alot done to
  • lovelyx
    lovelyx Posts: 194 Forumite
    I used to work 30 hours a week and managed to still enter a lot of comps just by doing it in the evenings after work or before work whenever I had time. I worked in retail and sometimes I was working when i'd get comping calls to tell me i'd won something! Every time it happened I was gutted that i'd missed it - though in the end every company emailed though to let me know, apart from some radio station who gave the prize away :( But yeah, it's possible if you make time for it, like when watching TV like others have said :)
    Best wins: Tefal pan set, microwave, £500 shopping vouchers, £500 Princesse Tam Tam vouchers, £100 cash

    :T
  • horleyflyer
    horleyflyer Posts: 2,618 Forumite
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    I work a fair few hours right now and have a family too. I have to wrestle the laptop off the kids for comping cos the PC is tooo slow.Sometimes I feel guilty for spending time comping ( anything from 10 mins to 3 hrs) but then again why not. No one will complain when I win them something nice ! ;)
    Girls do it better....
  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
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    I work full time, but am able to do whatever I like (within reason lol) at my desk if not busy. Can access twitter, but not FB.

    I find it's easier to do them in date order. If you get time, try and get a little ahead of yourself. At work, I whizz through all the one date and open all the comps I want to enter in new tabs. Sometimes there are tonnes open. Home computer would probably blow up! Easier then to just work your way through the tabs when you get time.

    I don't always get to do them at work, but do try and keep a day or two ahead so it's not a problem - or I just do a day's worth (or part of a day) at home that night.

    I did stop for about 3 months near Christmas as I was falling so far behind - but then I was doing them in the order they were posted. I always seemed to be at least 100 pages out so took a break. Soon came back to it though!

    I reckon you'll manage it - sometimes it helps to have support so you can do them on a laptop or whatever while watching telly. Hubby never objects to me doing comps on laptop or in another room, but then I've won some nice things over the last couple of years :D


    Word of warning, if you don't already do them in date order, beware the last day of the month! Sometimes there are about 100 bloomin' pages to wade through! You really have to try and do some of those during the rest of the month when you get a spare mo if you're ahead with the other days!

    Good luck!

    Jx
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
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