the cost vs benefit of work

Mistermeaner

Easy to say I know it I feel I could happily stop work tomorrow. My job is interesting and stimulating but far too time consuming and I have millions of better things I could be doing.... and that doesn't include pointless diy retired folk round here seem to obsess over.

Generali

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Easy to say I know it I feel I could happily stop work tomorrow. My job is interesting and stimulating but far too time consuming and I have millions of better things I could be doing.... and that doesn't include pointless diy retired folk round here seem to obsess over.

I'd quite happily do my job rather than retire (assuming that I earned more from work which doesn't seem unreasonable).

I enjoy what I do, it stimulates my mind, I have great colleagues and I honestly believe that I leave the world a slightly better place at the end of the year than it was at the start.

I wouldn't do it for free and I do hope and expect that I will get some decent pay rises over the next 3 years however.

Wednesday2000

duchy wrote: »

I have looked at a few better paid jobs but when I've done the maths and calculated the real costs of leaving home to work the nett financial advantage is usually non existent.

It's quite startling how much many of us do "pay to work"

Yes, I agree.:)

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I don't have a computer at home (or a smartphone or anything more advanced than a digital radio) so the workplace kindly provides me with free internet for my online needs, and I can get signed for parcels sent to a manned stores here rather than have to queue at the nearest sorting office.

PasturesNew

What I hate are the many oppressive bosses. Jobs where you go to sit at one desk, Mon-Fri, 8.30-5.30, every week (except four weeks), never moving from the desk/room. No flexible working, no meetings/lunches to get you away from that.

And if you try to book a day off, or a week off, at fairly short notice, you're not allowed it - making it hard to get interviews for replacement jobs.

Most of my working life has been in offices, with oppressive regimes. It makes you really want to tell them to "stuff it" ... and I've done that a few times

A well paid job, in a great place, with good colleagues and the opportunity to get off-site, maybe even get a buffet lunch once every 5 years (or the leftovers from a Directors' meeting as you clear the tables) ... is a different ball game.

Thing is, if you're in the bad end of employment/bosses it's almost impossible to get out.... unless you tell them to stuff it....I can recommend telling them to stuff it. "Better the devil you know" they say, but they're wrong and it grinds you down.

I still begrudge the day I went to my nasty job .... to take home £50 that day ... and got a s0ddin' puncture in the staff parking area, costing me £50 to replace. I still begrudge that I went there for the day for £0, when I could've just stayed in bed.

purch

Carl31 wrote: »

i think Humans need the mental stimulation of work to remain sane and motivated

I wonder how we managed for all those thousands of years before "work" was invented ?

purch

Mistermeaner wrote: »

Don't know if I have a point. Just musing.

Is your job under threat :eek:

kabayiri

What about the Black economy?

I had foolishly imagined that the ease of non-cash payment mechanisms these days would have led to a reduction in demand for cash, but far from it.

It's not just petty cash levels either. When a builder asks you to part pay for work in cash to the tune of thousands, should it concern us?

PasturesNew

kabayiri wrote: »

What about the Black economy?

I had foolishly imagined that the ease of non-cash payment mechanisms these days would have led to a reduction in demand for cash, but far from it.

It's not just petty cash levels either. When a builder asks you to part pay for work in cash to the tune of thousands, should it concern us?

Personally, as a lower rate tax payer, if I invite somebody to do work at £200 they'll pay £80 of that in income tax to the Govt (ending up with £120 in his pocket). If they stick VAT on that £200 they'll pay a further £40 (of my money) to the Govt.

So, as a pauper, I'm now paying out £240, for the Govt to get £120. So I am actually only getting £120's worth of work.

If the chap says to me "£200+VAT on the book or £150 for cash" then he's £30 better off, I'm £90 better off ... £90 is two hard days' graft at a lower salary.

You can see why it goes on.

Mistermeaner

purch wrote: »

Is your job under threat :eek:

Always.

But I'm not worried I'll just get another one