Any body else feel work is a massive inconvenience

[Wirral man]

Hi only a laugh but its typical to get some lovely clear nights and watch them go to waste as im up for work each day at 5am which pretty much means i cant stay up using my new imaging setup really gets my back up lol and come the weekend when im off will be cloudy phhtt....oh well fingers crossed that im wrong..

[PhotoGav]

You need a fully automatic observatory - click run and go to sleep!

[Wirral man]

2 minutes ago, PhotoGav said:

You need a fully automatic observatory - click run and go to sleep!

haha yeah i also need a better paid job then to fund one lol

[Alan White]

Wirral Man, short answer is YES.

Work is very inconvenient for many things, excepting it pays the bills and pays for the hobbies.
 

[iPeace]

Work?

[teoria_del_big_bang]

And the long answer is y....y......y.......y......y.......y........y.......y......e......e.......e.......e.......e.......e.......e.......e.......e.......e.......s.......s.......s.......s........s........s.......s......s!

[chiltonstar]

To slightly mis-quote Oscar Wilde......"Work is the curse of the observing classes"!

Chris

 

[25585]

My astronomical hobby re-birth is entirely due to being retired. Getting home from work was a sleep-eat-sleep-breakfast cycle.

[LukeSkywatcher]

I'm a man of leisure this last year. I go out for breakfast or lunch. I sit outside cafes reading, and drinking America's. I can go out observing any time I want. 

But, I don't.

God, I need to get back to my job. 

[DaveS]

Yes, especially this time of year. Roll on retirement.

[laudropb]

Best thing I ever did was retire.

[billyharris72]

I suspect everyone finds work a massive inconvenience - even non astronomers and people with jobs they enjoy (including professional astronomers). Maybe it's supposed to be that way - that's why they call it work!

Billy.

[Ande]

2 hours ago, chiltonstar said:

To slightly mis-quote Oscar Wilde......"Work is the curse of the observing classes"!

Chris

 

That's a great quote.  Hadn't heard that before, but it instantly reminded me of the inimitable Jerome k. Jerome's utterings on the subject of work....

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” 

and

“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.” 

Can't help but be in full agreement of the sentiments

[Jonk]

27+ years for me until state pension age....spare a thought!

[Pete Presland]

It certainly is. But I am happy to spend most of the summer walking around yawning at work, due late nights, early mornings and checking for noctolucent clouds at 2 am 

[tooth_dr]

I think it’s the fact that I have work to go to makes me cherish those clear weekends etc. I too like Steve am prepared to put up with a little tiredness

[Paz]

7 hours ago, laudropb said:

Best thing I ever did was retire.

I've still got a couple of decades to go. ?

[Davey-T]

6 hours ago, Jonk said:

27+ years for me until state pension age....spare a thought!

Let's hope they don't move the goalposts again before you get there Jon 

As I worked 28 hours a day 8 days a week and had to get up before I went to bed I don't feel the least bit guilty being retired 

Dave

[Demonperformer]

It's a 4-letter word in this house.

[Highburymark]

Good to have solar options - I sometimes take my Lunt into work for lunchtime Sun sessions, and have growing interest in the hobby as a result among my colleagues. 

(But basically my answer to your question is a resounding 'yes')

[ShrewView]

It certainly was inconvenient at 2am this morning when I thought I better pack up the astro in order to get a few hours sleep in. Sky was just lovely then. Weekend currently looks promising though. Fingers crossed.  

[RayD]

39 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

As I worked 28 hours a day 8 days a week and had to get up before I went to bed

And after lunch? 

[Davey-T]

6 minutes ago, RayD said:

And after lunch? 

What's that ? I worked on some sites where all the chippies would sit round at break times eating their sarnies, I used to keep going screwdriver in one hand sandwich in the other, sometimes took a bite out of the wrong one  the sooner I finished the sooner I could go home .

Dave

[RayD]

1 minute ago, Davey-T said:

What's that ? I worked on some sites where all the chippies would sit round at break times eating their sarnies, I used to keep going screwdriver in one hand sandwich in the other, sometimes took a bite out of the wrong one  the sooner I finished the sooner I could go home .

Dave

I like that, lunch is for whimps.  I used to be a sub-contract engineer working on sites and was exactly same, often wondering why guys were sitting around doing nothing.

[Davey-T]

5 minutes ago, RayD said:

I like that, lunch is for whimps.  I used to be a sub-contract engineer working on sites and was exactly same, often wondering why guys were sitting around doing nothing.

The funniest thing I saw was chippies sharpening Stanley knife blades, using an oilstone, in their dinner break 

Dave