It's Friday! Let's talk about work

"PowderHound" (PowderHound) 12/18/2015 at 17:58 • Filed to: None

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When do you work? I’ve set aside work for the weekend, done it when I got home from work, and woken up and done things first thing in the morning. I’m curious what you’re favorite time to work on your car is? Sure it depends on what you are doing, you’re not going to be rebuilding an engine and putting it back in on a morning of work. Or are you ya crazy bastard? I’ve saved projects for the weekend, done them after work, done them before work, and even in the work parking lot. Setting a time-frame? Lollygagging around all day and taking 5 hours to do a 40 minute drive?

For me it really depends but I tend to lean towards the mornings. If I’m doing something that I have done before or know is really straightforward, I love working in the morning before work. It gives me a reason to crank through it and test my “super awesome wrench turning skills”. Also, if it’s not done in time I have to make the call to my boss of, “i’m going to be late” “Yeah, it’s my car again”. When it comes to the bigger stuff I save it for the weekend and start in the mornings as well.

I’ve done plenty of car work when I’ve got home from work or at night on weekends but it never seems to go as well for me. After work, in most cases, you get home and have to wait for your car to cool down so I go upstairs and have a beer. That tends to turn in to multiple beers before I go down to actually start. At this point it’s already getting late and after working my actual job all day I realize that beer break is amazing and I should do another. Which then turns in to me needing to eat and it’s 9-10PM by the time I get to work on my car again. Maybe it’s because I’m a terrible procrastinator and will take many chances to put something off.

Raymundo > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 18:13

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Whoa.

AM3R shamefully returns > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 18:14

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Friday's right after work are always a fun time, and that way I have no rush that makes me feel like I'll die if I don't finish on time.

ktfright | Kinja Neighborhood Black Guy > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 18:16

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wrong post, mybad. I work at night mostly.

StudyStudyStudy > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 18:24

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After lunch on the weekend. Go early and prep if needed, get food/tools/supplies needed, get back, munch on food while setting up tools and finding something to listen to, crack on, keep working until body says to stop (tired, bathroom break etc). My two favorite moments working on cars have been lying on the warm driveway as evening fell installing a sway bar, the other was working until 2AM covered in oil changing out the oil pump just fantasizing about the warm shower and the cool sheets waiting for me when I finished. I admire the parking lot work, I’ve done it a couple times out of necessity, always worried the lot manager would kick me out.

RallyWrench > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 18:31

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I’d settle for any time to work on my cars, and I fix other people’s cars for a living. It’s like the joke about the cobbler’s kids’ shoes falling apart.

designzio > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 19:35

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Awesome garage. Is that hospital green?

PowderHound > designzio 12/18/2015 at 20:37

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Haha I don't know. It's someone who's last name is Olson. There was a feature on maybe petrolicious about him

LeftOfTheDial > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 20:40

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Off topic but I think that build was also documented on garage journal. definitely something to aspire to.

PowderHound > LeftOfTheDial 12/18/2015 at 20:56

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It's such a nice set up. It has definitely been posted a lot

Darkshoe (With Straight 6) > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 21:31

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Haven’t had to work on my car in a while, but from 2013 until this summer I was turning a wrench like a madman. I think that for long term projects I like to work at night, either for an hour or two after work (because I need to eat, relax, and sleep) or on a weekend night (when I can spend hours working into the early morning). For shorter projects I have to start in the morning otherwise it just won’t get done or I’ll be kicking myself for not starting sooner when I have to spend part of Sunday working on it as well.

LeftOfTheDial > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 21:35

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Back on topic, I agree with your post. The way I see it I’m working for me so it’s done at whatever pace I find right that day.

wafflesnfalafel > PowderHound 12/18/2015 at 22:27

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In the mornings, but after it’s light out. I’m a “get it done and out of the way” guy - change the oils, etc and then off to do other things.