21st September 2011, 06:30 PM
P Prentice Wrote:quick bit of mental suggests that they would have 365 working days if they wanted them - but most people deserve weekends and holidays and time with their families etc even if patronising old lags didnt get them when they started out
233 is the figure most people will recognise as the working year
Then they aren't really making the most of being self-employed then, are they? I actually did use to make the most of weekend/bank holiday working whenever available, and Xmas day is actually a very good work day, no danger of being distracted by anything on TV for a start! And none of that nonsense about only being allowed to work a 40hr week. And certainly around here there seems to be a problem with employees failing to actually use their leave entitlement (I certainly always fail, too much to do), to the extent that they're talking about optionally buying some of it back from next year. I quite miss the flexibilty of being self-employed (and the occasional big bucks and the fun of filling in the old tax form in order to get all those tax breaks for the self-employed that always seem to get ignored in discussions like this) - sold out and went for the pension in order to annoy Unit :face-crying: