Advice/thoughts on how to cut my hours and still get same pay

droopsnoot

soulman247 wrote: »

Decades come on live in the real world, be smart and it could be 5-6 years

Well yes, but how? You need either a great idea that you can put into practice and get paid for, an incredible work ethic to just flog yourself doing high paid work, serious luck in choosing and making investments.

You need to do something very, very special for it to be 5-6 years, the real world is where you work full time (if you're lucky) until retirement age and are then too tired to do anything else.

But that's not to say you shouldn't try.

YoungBusinessman

You can try. Give it all you have got. Then prove everyone here it can be done.

Write a book as you go from rags to riches in 5 years. Then sell the said book once you are "nearly rich"

If you have done well enough the book sales will then make you rich and you should be able to sit back and watch the money come in.

JoeCrystal

Uncle_Ben wrote: »

Soulman

You need to slow down. 45 hours a week. That's too much.

Huh? I don't know... Sound about normal to me. I think the average working hours in this country is about 42 to 43 hours per week. 73 hours on other hand... that is only tolerable for so long but it does wonder for your take-home pay.

Cheers

Joe

R_P_W

Joe - I think Uncle Ben was being sarcastic!

crittertog

R_P_W wrote: »

Joe - I think Uncle Ben was being sarcastic!

Quite possibly, but I remember seeing a study which found that working more than about 37-40 hours a week resulted in more mistakes being made in "thinking-heavy" roles. The area in question was computer programming, and they actually worked it out that it was cheaper to let the employees have a shorter week than find and fix the errors they made (bug finding can be exceptionally difficult).

Jegersmart

I would suggest that feeding a troll is the wrong thing to do.

imho

J

Uncle_Ben

R_P_W wrote: »

Joe - I think Uncle Ben was being sarcastic!

No he wasn't. 45 hrs a week is way too much.

TomMK

Martin's case for financial education strengthens....

bigadaj

crittertog wrote: »

Quite possibly, but I remember seeing a study which found that working more than about 37-40 hours a week resulted in more mistakes being made in "thinking-heavy" roles. The area in question was computer programming, and they actually worked it out that it was cheaper to let the employees have a shorter week than find and fix the errors they made (bug finding can be exceptionally difficult).

You think soul man works in a "thinking heavy" job, I doubt it somewhat.