14/02/2020
Life of a tradesman 🔧🔨
We get phone calls all hours.
We nip out and quote jobs all hours (most nights) We get the job, we go to work.
We make lists, we drive to merchants we pick up materials. We prepare jobs we are about to start, while in the same day finish jobs.
We finish jobs so that we can get paid.
Sometimes we chase that payment. If a job runs over we don't finish until late, we stay until that job is complete, 10:00pm? Then so be it.
Somebody rings, I’ve a job needs doing asap, nobody likes to say no.. So as well as all the above we are now trying to squeeze a small job into a tight schedule that then takes twice as long as it should putting you under more pressure.
Van breaks or your ill, Your now a day behind and have twice the work load.
Sounds busy right? Now we'll chuck in a few more..
Banking
Books
Accountants
Clearing back of the van
Sorting our units/yards
Spending time with girlfriend/wife's/kids
Cleaning house
Food shopping
Paying bills
Seeing relatives
That decorating at home that's been waiting months.
Standard week of a tradesman.
So before anyone writes on Facebook about tradesmen this tradesman that, he didn't come quote, he didn't answer my calls, just cut us tradesmen some slack and remember we are only human, we can't be in more than one place at a time, we do forget things but most importantly we do try our best!
