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Old 09-07-2007, 07:35 AM
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I start at 07:30 6 days a week (sometimes even Sunday but not through the entire day), and don't usually finish 'till late that day. It catches up with me, my health is a disaster, coffee for breakfast - lunch - 'till 18:00 (never drink coffee after 6pm) and my cups are huge (the size of the Eiffel Tower) + smoking (bad for me but can not seem to be able to cut them down).
Sometimes join the day, I need to get out to clear my head so I go on a drive for an hour or two.
After 6pm if I don't work, I grab a book and flick through it (of course programming related) in front of the television or I help my kids with the xBox games.

That's the down side of running your own business - long hours and the risk of killing yourself slowly and surely.
Last week my family went to Wexford - Courtown, and I have been working till late (11-12 pm), and indeed I got a lot done, but... not good for me (health wise).
Now you do the maths and see how many hours is that per/week.
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Old 17-07-2007, 10:38 AM
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I took 3 days off last week and took a boat from Kilrush (Shannon Estuary) up to Westport. Did the world of good, I feel a lot better this week!



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Old 17-07-2007, 11:11 AM
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i am going myself away next week for 7 days.
Hope to feel as good as yourself.
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i am going myself away next week for 7 days.
Hope to feel as good as yourself.
Where are you off to?
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back home for a week. haven't seen my family for 2 years.
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Haven't posted here in a while, so as you can tell, I'm also working long crazy hours to the detriment of my health. However, I'm of to the sun in August for a week so hopefully that will bring me back to normal (or thereabouts ).
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back home for a week. haven't seen my family for 2 years.
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Thankfully (ish) i have a built in warning mechanism. If i over do it i get a killer stress headache that then wipes me out for up to 2 days. Keeping my hours reasonable allows me to do more of them
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Thankfully (ish) i have a built in warning mechanism. If i over do it i get a killer stress headache that then wipes me out for up to 2 days. Keeping my hours reasonable allows me to do more of them
I thought you were going to blame your lovely wife
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