FA+
Shop
Update on work, my life, personal trials & accomplishment...
2 years ago
Hello! Pros here - It has been a hell of a year already. So many things have been going on. So many days, so many people I owe work to. I'm going to go ahead and fill every one of you in on what has been going on because I'm very aware of my speed as of lately in finishing commissions.
I want to go ahead and say that I'm still in this, still working hard!! Still planning on finishing every single piece that I owe! I feel bad that everyone has been waiting as long as they have. So, here's the reason why it's been taking even LONGER than usual. I got a job. I got a job at a restaurant, and at first, I was just the dish washer.
I've been working for a couple months now, and my manager moved me to cook, so now I'm working literally every single day up until 2am cooking and cleaning. It's been hard for me to jump back into work mode for commissions every night after working a stressful yet rewarding shift every day. My last paycheck I clocked I had around 76 hours. I am literally working every day. Now - I know this may disappoint some of you, and if some of you are angry, I completely understand.. but please hear me out.
This is the first 'real' job that I've had in probably.. 12 years? I'm very introverted, very quiet. People and me in real life situations don't really work out that well. I'm now a part of a group of people that not only respect me as an individual, but is also helping me break down my own walls to fit into the 'real world', if that's what you want to call it. I'm feeling happy..fulfilled. SO - Here's my new plan for my commission work..
A lot of you may know by now, I'm also in a band. My schedule is literally insane. Between the band, my commissions, and cooking, I am lucky to even get 2 days off of work a week. I'm still going as strong as I can, trying to balance all three things out has been difficult, but I'm doing everything that I can to make it work.
As far as commissions go, I get home around 1/2 am, try to pick at a little bit of work before bed every single night, then wake up, go to work, do it again. That on top of focusing on tour dates, Personal work for my band, my personal life, and work I do for other bands (graphic design, digital media, merch designs, etc).
My long term plan is to focus on catch up work, after real life work. This has become a daunting task due to the fact that I didn't need to get a real job up until the inflation hit, my bills went up, and I had car payments, phone bills, insurance to pay, and everything else in between. I'm going to focus on catch up work only, BUT - I'll still be taking custom commissions and putting the odd commission out here and there for now.
Once I catch everyone up and I get this queue taken care of, I'll be able to focus on my actual job and come back to a queue of no more than a dozen commissions. (if all goes according to plan.)
I got hit hard when I left the road a couple weeks ago, I lost a weeks worth of pay, so I'm currently broke again until 2 weeks. Hesitation to buy any work from me at this point is completely understandable, but most definitely appreciated. I will promise that anything sold WILL be completed, though I cannot give a time frame of when.
So yeah~! I'm hanging in there, and I'm very aware of the wait that everyone has been enduring. I'm so incredibly sorry! I'm trying to take care of a hundred things at once all day every day, so please hang in there!
Every single one of you have been so incredibly patient, and it means the world to me. I never thought that my life would take the turn that it currently has. I'm not the best at it, I've just always had a hard time with micromanaging. I'm typing this literally after doing some FA work before bed, and I'm beat. Tomorrow is a new day, and I gotta get up and head back into work again. If any of you need anything at all, please message me! I check FA once a day at the minimum! Thank you for understanding and sticking with me. I love you all and I'm still just getting by~
One last note- How do people eat three times a day anyways?? I just don't even have the time or money for that anymore. Anyways, Have faith! Because I plan on crushing these commissions as SOON AS I CAN.
<3 Proserpine
I want to go ahead and say that I'm still in this, still working hard!! Still planning on finishing every single piece that I owe! I feel bad that everyone has been waiting as long as they have. So, here's the reason why it's been taking even LONGER than usual. I got a job. I got a job at a restaurant, and at first, I was just the dish washer.
I've been working for a couple months now, and my manager moved me to cook, so now I'm working literally every single day up until 2am cooking and cleaning. It's been hard for me to jump back into work mode for commissions every night after working a stressful yet rewarding shift every day. My last paycheck I clocked I had around 76 hours. I am literally working every day. Now - I know this may disappoint some of you, and if some of you are angry, I completely understand.. but please hear me out.
This is the first 'real' job that I've had in probably.. 12 years? I'm very introverted, very quiet. People and me in real life situations don't really work out that well. I'm now a part of a group of people that not only respect me as an individual, but is also helping me break down my own walls to fit into the 'real world', if that's what you want to call it. I'm feeling happy..fulfilled. SO - Here's my new plan for my commission work..
A lot of you may know by now, I'm also in a band. My schedule is literally insane. Between the band, my commissions, and cooking, I am lucky to even get 2 days off of work a week. I'm still going as strong as I can, trying to balance all three things out has been difficult, but I'm doing everything that I can to make it work.
As far as commissions go, I get home around 1/2 am, try to pick at a little bit of work before bed every single night, then wake up, go to work, do it again. That on top of focusing on tour dates, Personal work for my band, my personal life, and work I do for other bands (graphic design, digital media, merch designs, etc).
My long term plan is to focus on catch up work, after real life work. This has become a daunting task due to the fact that I didn't need to get a real job up until the inflation hit, my bills went up, and I had car payments, phone bills, insurance to pay, and everything else in between. I'm going to focus on catch up work only, BUT - I'll still be taking custom commissions and putting the odd commission out here and there for now.
Once I catch everyone up and I get this queue taken care of, I'll be able to focus on my actual job and come back to a queue of no more than a dozen commissions. (if all goes according to plan.)
I got hit hard when I left the road a couple weeks ago, I lost a weeks worth of pay, so I'm currently broke again until 2 weeks. Hesitation to buy any work from me at this point is completely understandable, but most definitely appreciated. I will promise that anything sold WILL be completed, though I cannot give a time frame of when.
So yeah~! I'm hanging in there, and I'm very aware of the wait that everyone has been enduring. I'm so incredibly sorry! I'm trying to take care of a hundred things at once all day every day, so please hang in there!
Every single one of you have been so incredibly patient, and it means the world to me. I never thought that my life would take the turn that it currently has. I'm not the best at it, I've just always had a hard time with micromanaging. I'm typing this literally after doing some FA work before bed, and I'm beat. Tomorrow is a new day, and I gotta get up and head back into work again. If any of you need anything at all, please message me! I check FA once a day at the minimum! Thank you for understanding and sticking with me. I love you all and I'm still just getting by~
One last note- How do people eat three times a day anyways?? I just don't even have the time or money for that anymore. Anyways, Have faith! Because I plan on crushing these commissions as SOON AS I CAN.
<3 Proserpine
But I can promise this - I'll be working on every piece as quickly as I can from here on out, whether I have little free time or not!