[Christine]

There's o option for a full time allotmenteer - does that mean that I'm full time employed? (At home at moment watching the decorator work - this counts a time off as in weekend I think).

[Oscar Too]

Full time for a major charity, working and travelling 60 hours a week, about 12 trips abroad per year.  Wife is SAHM and does the most important job in the world - raising our son, so lots of demands on our time.  The lotty gives us food, space to be together, space for LO to crawl around and eat soil, space to breathe, bit of sanity and a mutual project.

[FCG]

I'm amazed at the responses, thanks for putting them in. I too am surprised at the amount of self employed people here... i guess allotmenteers have more get up and go than the norm? I guess i should put mine in really, so here goes;

Full time worker, part time student. 4 days a week i have my trainee civil engineer's technician hat on 8-5 and the other my college hat 9-5. Weekends? Gardener and chook wrangler.

[Sadgit]

full time slave to an American corporation and worked like a bitch, so much so I hardly see my plot....  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:

[Steve.P]

I'm a self employed lorry driver, work crazy hours, had more time for my plot with my last job. And I'm permanently knackered. Early grave for me i think!

[Growbag]

Was full-time slave to an American Corporation but unlike Sadgit I was lucky and escaped their evil clutches.  Now work part-time.  Don't have an allotment but have several deep beds and a decent greenhouse in the garden.   If I had my way the whole garden would be converted into deep beds but the dog has to have somewhere she can go.

[ceri green]

well, obviously, any FEMALE respondees to this poll are double full time employed 24/7 in sosme capacity or other......not to mention multitasking several times over at the same time............
in fact how anyone gets the time to even read the posts beats me!
     

[ceri green]

and now just off to muck out the chickens and horses before i go to work........
then when i come back got to help OH put up shelves in garage (easier with 2 apparently.....funny that, i always managed by myself when i did it.......mus t be a man thing..........

oh and put some washing on, peg some out, think about what will miraculously appear on the table tonight for dinner.........................
better get gpoing methinks!

[annie b]

I'm a journalist...work between 3 and 5 days a week...although this wek it's five and a half.Mum to three, chief cook,  bottlewasher and do the allotment on my own.

Must find more time to spend on it next year.....

[Elaine G]

I work full time with 25 mile commute (up to an hour).

Have to fit in shopping and stuff on my day off and Sundays daughters tend to visit which means cooking so lottie time is hard to fit in.

Plot is a bit of a mess due to lack of time but generally a good place to escape to and think. And some veggies do grow despite the weeds!!

House is just as messy as I would rather be outside, so I do not do housework unless mother is coming to visit!!

Have been self employed, and hubby still is - blooming hard work!!

Elaine

[JulieSh]

Full time wellie wearer......

Hubby retired me a few years back & we've just bought a new place - previous owners took great delight in digging up young trees from the next door forest & planting them in the 2.5 acre gardens here, so we're having to get some, if not most out!
Sad, I know, but the gardens are that shady & wet & not a lot will grow in the dark!!

Greatly looking forward to turning one of the bottom back gardens into our 'at home allotment area' for next year!! The 2nd bottom garden will be utilised for the chicken area.... can't wait!
Julie.

[matron]

Work full time as a ward manager on a rehab unit. Sons just about grown up. Go down to plot at week end and in summer in the evenings.

[wellingtons]

... I've had a few moments where I thought I would have to give up my plot this year, but I haven't given it up ... yet!

I started up my own business in April of this year, and before that was employed doing the same thing full time anyhoo.  So here I am working full time, with 2 part-time helpers (very part time I'm afraid!).  I've got my plot and a teenage son and a house to run.  

I'm very lucky in that my business has got off to a flying start, better than even Little Miss Optimist here could ever have hoped, but I do work long hours.  I have help in the business, I have help at home (have a wonderful cleaner and my PA in the biz does personal stuff too) and I have my hired muscle at the plot.

I've no idea what I'm complaining about ...  

[Knight Family]

Well for me I live in the North West and travel every day to the North east for work! 1000 miles a week approx thank god i have a CO2 green foot print (only 1 vehicle does that for 45k miles!)

[Bombers]

Working full time (at the moment  :roll:) \Travelling mostly, the length and breadth of our fair isle, from Dundee in the north across to Workington in the North West, as far down as Truro in the South West, and Folkestone in the South East - All of it basically! Try to fit the Lottie in at weekends, as much as possible at the moment, (Weather permitting)