i've been working 7-7:30 a lot in my almost 12 years in the trade, far too many 60+ hour weeks. i much prefer ~50 hours a week
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Most of the time I leave at 6 am. I get home normally around 6 pm. Occasionally before that, often after that. Then I make calls, do estimates, bills etc. Essentially most of my waking time is spent on work in some form. It sucks, I hate it, and when I find a way out I'm taking it. 
This is exactly why I don't ever want to own my own business. I constantly have people ask me why I don't work for myself. I usually tell them, #1 I don't want to do residential work, #2 I don't want to spend my whole life working. As a 1 man show you have to do everything. Bidding, buying material, phone calls, do the work, billing, collections, etc. Working for a larger company we have separate people to do all of those jobs. I show up everyday and just do electrical work, then go home. It's someone elese's job to worry about billing. If I need to place a material order we have a purchaser for that. I just call him with my order and he shops around and puts the order together for me. I leave my house at approx. 6:30a and get home usually before 4:00p everyday.Most of the time I leave at 6 am. I get home normally around 6 pm. Occasionally before that, often after that. Then I make calls, do estimates, bills etc. Essentially most of my waking time is spent on work in some form. It sucks, I hate it, and when I find a way out I'm taking it.
An d you still can t get aheadMost of the time I leave at 6 am. I get home normally around 6 pm. Occasionally before that, often after that. Then I make calls, do estimates, bills etc. Essentially most of my waking time is spent on work in some form. It sucks, I hate it, and when I find a way out I'm taking it.
Most of the time I leave at 6 am. I get home normally around 6 pm. Occasionally before that, often after that. Then I make calls, do estimates, bills etc. Essentially most of my waking time is spent on work in some form. It sucks, I hate it, and when I find a way out I'm taking it.
But Scott doesn't have to work all those hours. He does it because he is ambitious, because the work is available, because he is trying to grow the company, etc. He can very easily ramp his workload down to lessen his hours if he chooses to. Or maybe he is near the point where he can bring in an office girl to do the work that he does when he gets home at night.
He can work less hours than he currently does and still make considerably more than he would if he was an employee.
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