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Most of us will be in the situation were we are working twice as hard to stand still. That is certainly me anyway. Again like a lot of us I am getting scunnered with the 'more effort less money' situation. Before someone chips in with, 'do something else then', I do this job because of the self-employed aspect. I hate been told what to do. I am sure most of us on TDO can empathise with that.

Now that I have said all that, would anyone like to share any little titbits of motivational gold that keeps them going through these tough times? I will start it off. I realise I may be opening myself up here for ridicule but if I do not open up my crazy mind I am not going to learn anything new.

What worked for me for a while was instead of calling my cab 'the cab'. I called my cab the 'money machine'. God help my wife but I got her to buy into this as well. It helped me to visualise that after dropping off every customer it was more cash in the registrar so to speak. Like the cash machine noise in Pink Floyd's song, 'Money'. Recently, my crazy mind trick has stopped working because the reality of the situation is that my cab is not a money machine anymore. For my usual 50 odd hours when I look in my hand at the end of the week I go, 'is that it?' I need something else now to keep me going, another mind trick if you will. Anyone got any? If this ends up as a 'take the rip' thread then that will do. I could do with the laugh. Btw, I showed my Mrs this before I posted and she said, 'they are going to think you are a nutjob'.........I replied, ' they might be right!!'

Give it your best shot TDO.

Ill go along with your mrs, your a feckin nutjob !

50 ODD HOURS IN THIS JOB AINT ENUFF MATE END OF.sorry caps. get some entertainment to keep you out ,iphone dvd book the more hours the more money it aint rocket science.

I know I'm lucky working in London, but I still think this jobs all about the times you work.

I hope things pick up, I see more and more stories like this on TDO.

That's the trouble with the industry, in lean times more and more turn to it thinking they'll earn a good living.

Even in London, we are seeing the first of the 'recession' drivers that started the Kniwledge in 2009 passing out in greater numbers as TFL hand more and more power to the students over the Inspectors.

the good days ended about 5 years ago, anyone with a brain got a PAYE job then

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Wannabee, hope am I right here - You mentioned you use to be a courier didn't you? I think I remember you didn't like the cash flow side of things because you had to wait a month to get your money. If you were my age now (in my 30s) would you consider it at the moment? I haven't done much research into it, but the way I see the market is that as retail staff falls, more wholesale and couriers will be needed as the market changes to online. My Mrs, my sis, and mother shop online all the time. Worth a shot? Or will I get swallowed by the big companies if I go it alone. Is it better to work for them? What do you think? Feedback will be much appreciated.

Fudpaw COURIERS avoid particularly HERMES cowboys Articles in the Daily Mirror about them in the Penman and Summerlad column take a look.

Motivation God knows when I did it I hated it " get em in get em out take the dosh was my tactic"

funnily enough when I first started work we went on strike for the 40 hr week WTF happend to that ???????/ Thatcher actually

Count yer blessins at least you have a wife you can talk too most of them are incapable aof anything other than staring at Emmercrap Corrie Get me out of here or some such trash

anyway be lucky sure there will be plenty of comments coming in TT

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If you have had a bad start to the shift, start it off again and compare how much you would have taken if you had gone home then, with what you actually do take at the end of the shift.

Treat that money as a bonus, however little it is.

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I have always started my shifts with a smile even if it's plastered on. PMA is order of the night, stay happy with customers and make light chat, ask how their days been. You'll be surprised how quickly a shift can go when you're talking. I always put my notes in the little compartment under my steering wheel so I don't see them until the end of the night so if it's going slow you don't notice it so much with the lack of notes stirring at you every time you give out change from your clip or in my case bumbag. Have some of your favorite music playing to keep you uplifted. If things seem to be going a little difficult take a half hour break and try again, but, whatever happens don't let the night get you down. You should at least go home with more than what you started with and nobody has told you when to go in, when to have a break or when to go home, happy days

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

i treat my car like a shop.i have opening times and work to them.

You and how many....????? Think of it like this.... Our planet is just a small speck of sh*ite surrounded by billions of stars and other specs of sh*te in a vast Galaxy surrounded by billions of other Galaxies....... so what does that make us? Billions of even tinier specks of Sh*te....???