List page posts error

Hi

I have done several tutorials and followed many hacks and sometimes for a while it works and mostly it doesn’t work so I end up starting again. My list pages pagination don’t work when I go to the second page of list items. I get an error 404.

My custom work.php page looks like this

<?php 

/*

	Template Name: Work Page

*/

get_header(); ?>

<div id="content" class="clearfix">

<?php

$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'work', 'paged'=> $paged ); $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>

<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>

<section class="post-content clearfix">
<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
</section>
					    <?php endwhile; ?>

						        <nav class="wp-prev-next">
							        <ul>
					        	        <li class="prev-link left"><?php next_posts_link( 'Older Work', $the_query->max_num_pages ); ?></li>
					        	        <li class="next-link right"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer Work' ); ?></li>
							        </ul>
					    	    </nav>

					    <?php else : ?>

	<p>There are no posts or pages here</p>

<?php endif; ?>
</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

The page is http://craigjamieson.com/work and it’s when you use the pagination below that it breaks when going to the next 10 posts.

Please advise, I have followed so many hacks and they keep breaking and I’m simply getting confused.

Thanks in advance 🙂

https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/