Wow, you have 3 (or 2, i might have that wrong) real life jobs and you take 8-12 bookings a week, thats one huge bloody drain that needs plugging Pandora.  how do you not burn out and run out of energy?

I have one other job and about to start another in a few weeks, after that i am hoping for upto 5 or 6 bookings  a week but anymore and id be way too tired.  my new job will be an incredibly physical one though so maybe that is why i anticipate being so tired.

lexie i have a full time, long hours, day job and its mental work but that is tiring as well

Yep, the papers do seem get enthusiastic about bad news. I've read of something a while ago about a 'Good News' paper - it only contained positive stories, apparently it didn't sell very well! No one wants to buy a paper filled with good news! 

The recession will dominate for a while, like the boom did. I did read some reprint on line of newspaper articles from the build up to and during the 90's recession, I do remember the 90's recession I was old enough to be aware of things going on when it happened.

Yes, I think these things tend to ripple through area by area too.

I can only imagine that it may be similar to the 90's and what seemed to happened to people then, some were able to keep going for a while on their current salary through the initial stage of the difficulties, some had stretches of unemployment but managed to continue getting jobs at their previous salary at various times and some took a cut (like what they used to earn in a week they accepted to earn in a month) and they were able to stay employed throughout but, but, but you also have those who for various reasons remain relatively unaffected. What I've read but don't know is that 'entertainment' (breweries, prostitution) tend to be ok but I've no idea really where we stand.

Must have been a blip - had my best week ever - hurrah! Had some really lovely dates, complete with champagne and chocs and presents.  I love this job!!

had an ''ok'' week- nothing special! but i can feel next week is going to be crap! I have only one main booking planned and thats from a reverse booking at a lower rate than i would usually charge Ive had interest, just no concrete bookings

one thing is...you can never predict the future. How can one say next week is going to be crap? How can one say tonight will be busy? you just dont know. and vice versa...

the nights I swore would be slow...werent. the nights I swore would be busy, wasnt.

I agree, for me it's a bit quiet but waiting for payday in a week or so and maybe it'll pick up! Thinking about charting my bookings on a spreadsheet to track patterns from which I can produce all sorts of fancy graphs and pie charts but that may be just a step too far...

Quote from: Lilly1230 on 18 January 2009, 08:29:20 pm

I agree, for me it's a bit quiet but waiting for payday in a week or so and maybe it'll pick up! Thinking about charting my bookings on a spreadsheet to track patterns from which I can produce all sorts of fancy graphs and pie charts but that may be just a step too far...

Bloody hell you are bored arent you lol.  Some one get the girl some business before she gets her tax in order and rearranges her CD collection!!  lol

hmmm, not so sure about that Lex...we were just talking about this in the thread, "Keeping track for 2009". I was also considering doing the excel spreadsheet thing and seeing what months are slow or not. However, Im going to be traveling abroad the 1st quarter of this year to a couple different cities so the findings may be exaggerated due to the new boy in town