In this situation would you have said something (as I did) or keep quiet?

OrkneyStar

lostinrates wrote: »

Not so much as you'd think......certainly lots of areas of law won't have that demand, but surprising ones that would, or it seems they surprise.

There are very different areas of law and even types of lawyer NDG is and my husband is......they still get odd hour demands.

There are many differences in how that works, and how much control they might have and how they exercise it.....but....very different areas, and type of thing they might be expected to do at odd hours of the day.

I think you are agreeing with me? I was basically saying, I could see how they might work odd hours but not having personal experience I couldn't really say (just guess!). What is NDG?

Mr_Toad

Billie-S wrote: »

Not sure why a lawyer would have to be called out in the middle of the night, and in the middle of weddings, and weekends away, and why they'd have to be flown halfway around the world in the middle of a holiday :huh:

Can't think of any job that would warrant that TBH apart from a spy or a very highly qualified and specialist surgeon, or the leader of a country.

By the way Orkney Star, I saw your post after the edit - thank you.

It happens all the time in many, many industries where specialists are needed. Those specialists come in many forms not just surgeons and leaders.

I once shared a charter plane with a group of oil rig drillers who were being flown from Mexico to sort out some problem on a rig somewhere else in the world. They were as rough a bunch as you ever want to meet but they were highly paid experts in their field.

The plane was going in the right direction and someone had got me a seat on it at short notice.

When I boarded all the other passengers, twelve of them, were wearing those bright orange immersion suits. It was January and we were flying over the North sea and the Baltic to Helsinki. I asked one of them if they all knew something I didn't and that's when I found out what they were. It turned out the immersion suits were so bulky it was easier to wear them than pack them

They we as intrigued as to why I was on the plane as I was about them.

lostinrates

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I think you are agreeing with me? I was basically saying, I could see how they might work odd hours but not having personal experience I couldn't really say (just guess!). What is NDG?

NDG...never despair girl, who posted about her work.

I am not disagreeing with you:)

I am often learning about the impact of others work/ lives in ways I had not appreciated. I find it interesting when people hadn't considered something was possible so dismiss it as a possibility. What you are expressing is considerably more sensible I think.

OrkneyStar

lostinrates wrote: »

NDG...never despair girl, who posted about her work.

I am not disagreeing with you:)

I am often learning about the impact of others work/ lives in ways I had not appreciated. I find it interesting when people hadn't considered something was possible so dismiss it as a possibility. What you are expressing is considerably more sensible I think.

I used to work in a lab, sometimes we could finish at 2 and have a lazy afternoon- result folk thought we were skiving, what they didn't realise was we were often in at the weekend or working all day from 8 to 6 with 10 mins for lunch, and so on. Until you have experience (personal or family or friend) of anything it's hard to do more than imagine I suppose.

neverdespairgirl

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I think you are agreeing with me? I was basically saying, I could see how they might work odd hours but not having personal experience I couldn't really say (just guess!). What is NDG?

Me. I'm a barrister, doing immigration law and immigration-related crime.

Mr_Toad

lostinrates wrote: »

Really? My neighbour is a dairy farmer, he works every day of the year too, and at odd times with no notice whenever a cow is unwell.


I'm a small holder, I work everyday of the year, likewise, at odd hours of the day with no notice if an animal is unwell or one of my business's clients needs me to. Its part of my job, and my job is far from high flying!

I know a dairy farmer, brother of a friend, and I know how hard he works, and his wife for that matter.

Despite their beautiful surroundings and seemingly idyllic life it's not a job I could do. In fact I'd say he works far harder than I ever did and it's a far more precarious existence too.

OrkneyStar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Me. I'm a barrister, doing immigration law and immigration-related crime.

Yes sorry I thought it was an abbreviation for something random- perhaps my 'what' would be better as 'who'? Sorry!

lostinrates

Mr_Toad wrote: »

I know a dairy farmer, brother of a friend, and I know how hard he works, and his wife for that matter.

Despite their beautiful surroundings and seemingly idyllic life it's not a job I could do. In fact I'd say he works far harder than I ever did and it's a far more precarious existence too.

Depends on the farm set up...

I don't mind milking occasionally, but I wouldn't want to do it either. My neighbour is a particularly good, compassionate farmer too.

But yes, there are a lot of jobs that have tremendous demands of time and emergency changes, that was my point really, they span industries. The idea that it could only be a head of state, a specialist surgeon or a spy tickled me a little. I suppose I am just used to a lot of people working like that though, so it skews my perception of what's normal?

andygb

poet123 wrote: »

Classic case of parents believing their child is the centre of their world so everyone else should think that too. My nieces live close and we don't always attend the parties. A party in a home is not like a paid for sit down meal.

I think you were rude op.

The number of times that we have had to sit through these totally mindless, boring, loud, messy "celebrations", all because the parents want to get as many presents as possible for the child (they would have got a present anyway).
When you get there, the mum is nearly always saying how stressed out she has been arranging things, there is nowhere to sit, hardly anybody knows each other (and are not interested in doing so), and the "mums group" form a clique.

For someone without children, this is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist to have stubborn wisdom teeth removed (yes, I have had them done, and attended children's parties);)

Person_one

I quite like children's parties, don't speak for me!