How does your job affect your OS lifestyle?

angelavdavis

I work full time as a Business Development manager for an IT company, 50% of my work is from home so OS allows me to multi-task.
I use my breadmaker while I do my email/write reports at home, and use my cookahead meals from the freezer or the slowcooker if I am travelling (usually if I am working at a customer site I don't get home until 7:30ish at the earliest).

The last thing I want to do when I get home usually is start cooking a meal, but I hate eating ready meals and use my OS skills to keep our meals healthy and lower cost. DH isn't a big cook, but good at following instructions and usually, if there is something ready made, he does the pasta/rice/potatoes that might be required to eat with the ready made chilli/bolognaise/pie/casserole, etc. He is also fab at doing all the washing up/washing and ironing! (I am so lucky!!!)

I am fairly control-freak about keeping a list of food on the freezer door so I don't waste time going through the drawers to find meals and open freeze a lot of vegetables on Friday mornings before starting work as I usually travel over to our house by the sea for the weekend and the food gets wasted otherwise.

I don't meal plan - mainly because I prefer spontaneity and so usually decide the night before what I am going to cook. I have a list of meals that are listed under the freezer contents so, if I am struggling for ideas, I get DH to decide what we are having!

I grow vegetables and fruit in my garden by the sea (the garden at the other place is only just big enough to grow herbs in!)

We are lucky as we tend to live OS out of choice - and use the spare cash to overpay the mortgage.

Smashing_Blouse

I am a Secondary School First Aider, work school hours, although have been off for 6 weeks after having a tendon repaired on my foot, so little OS being managed at the moment as immobile.

Hoping to get back into a routine once I can walk again.

doraexplorer

well im a a support officer for adults with a learning disabiity and i love it . :j also a mum to 2 , ds 8 and dd 3.... i work about 90 hours a month. oh works full time 6 days a week. so we are like passing ships in the night ...... we have 2 weekends off a month together as a family. but thats why i think we work so well.

i do all the h/w, washing , ironing and cooking. my house is very tidy and organised. oh does help but only with basic h/w and reheating meals i have pre-prepared ---- i mean on the plate to microwave:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

we eat h/m meals 5 days a week, 1 freezer day and a takeaway/eat out on a weekend. i batch cook curries, stew, mince, spag bol, meat for sunday dinner. i also cook with the kids once a week. :cool:

i would love to be a SAHM but like being a mum and being a person at work.
i am busy all the time, with work, house, after school clubs etc.

but my kids know one a month on one of our weekend offs, we have family day .......and the kids get to pick what we do for the day. pictures, park, rollerbowl etc...

we have no money worries but we work really hard as a family. i am very money saving, but could be better and i am trying to meal plan but its hard work. but i am getting there.

OS is good i cook dinner, puddings, cakes, biscuits with the kids.



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Stephen_Leak

I am an ICT technician in a state secondary school. This certainly impacts on my MSE/OS ways, as I work terms only and only bring home a little over £900 a month.

destiny_star2006

im a sahm work odd jos on the internet home scan mystery shopping etc but nothing to call a wage partner works full time on cstle eden golf course have dd4 and pregnant now only 11 weeks to go !

leoetal19

champys wrote: »

hmm.... that makes me think of my late MIL who used to say: "only dull women have clean houses". She took that to the extreme, too!

what she had a very tidy house but was dull as dishwater

or a party chick living in a hovel :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
i am for a balance - party chick with dull dishwater :j :rotfl: :rotfl:

lots of people have eaten in my house and gone on to live perfectly normal lives-honest
and ive only lost the odd child under the ironing pile x:T
sue x:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

carole.uk

hello everyone i am a full time youth worker and love it! i now make almost all my meals from sratch, have a meal plan, just given away my first thing on freecycle and in my spare time like being nosey so hang around MSE alot

champys

leoetal19 wrote: »

what she had a very tidy house but was dull as dishwater

or a party chick living in a hovel :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

she used the quote as an excuse for not doing the housework.... and would then make fun of me because I do like a certain level of cleanliness (which I don't always achieve I admit), and happen to be an accountant by trade :-)

leoetal19

well i love accountants and i love people who try and even bettter those who dont always succeed (like me) and hate people who make fun of others so i love u n dont like her x there judgement made !!!
ps my house is very nice actaully-honestly xxxx just relaxed n if it slips 4 a bit i dont stress xxxx ooooooh france-how nice!!! im in yorkshire n we had an earthquake!!!

Ellybel

Gosh you lot have been busy. I am too a nurse and know about the ships that pass in the night. I am really going to make a determined effort to be OS. All your ideas are gratefully recieved:beer: . I am going to try and be organised, not one of my strong points.:o . Thanks again guys.