January's always alright... well, except during the recession but even then it wasn't worse than any other month, in fact better than most. No work in January is just a myth developed to accompany the myth that we make a fortune in December. Sure, you get a busy week in December and a relatively quiet week in January but, outside of that, all the Christmas parties are at the weekend in December when there'd be no shortage of work without them, mid week December is pure shite compared to midweek January but the party goers who queue for an average of 56 hours for a cab home don't see that... hence we got into the habit of feeding the myths.