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Quick update (small rant)
2 years ago
Hey all,
Still not dead yet, though work is actively trying to kill me. (I'll be fine just working in what has very quickly become a fema, osha, hazmat, violation poster child) I just wanted to drop in and address the announcement in my previous journal that I would likely be able to quit my job within the next six months to a year, some time between october '23 and march '24.
Well I have two things to say on this; 1st is that, unfortunately it's starting to look as though that's going to—as is usually the case it seems—get pushed back to next year. This infuriates me to quite a degree because I need to focus my time and energy into both this business, and the maintenance and upkeep of the family farm. I still plan to post updates as I can regarding the 3d printing projects I'm working on, and to take laser etching commissions as I can, but due to the severe lack of time available to me (for which my job is solely responsible) these will continue to be sparce at best. I do have one more post to make for a print I did for
sigil-prince but I haven't had even enough time to post that since the print was completed. (I haven't forgotten it Sig, I'm just so strapped for time even doing laundry is getting difficult.)
Second is that with as infuriating as the situation has become, I've begun dumping as much of my regular paycheck into an investment account as I possibly can, with the intention of using the gains to pay my bills after the new year. Granted I've been building finds in this manner since the start of the year, I've been getting help with my bills as a means of reducing the overall load as much as possible in order to better convince a certain party (i.e. my father) that adequate maintenance on the farm won't cost as much as they expect. At present I expect to have more than enough to suffice by the end of the year, however if my father can't be convinced that it's feasible, next year will be a very short stint of dumping cash into bills, followed by further investing and a down payment on either a class a or c camper that I can convert into a mobile office.
Tl:dr I'm pissed. I'm putting too much time and effort into a job that I hate, and my father seems to think that not only am I not competent enough to make my business a success as I haven't got the time to work on his parts (which are one of my "big money" orders), he says that if I quit said job to get the time I need to maintain the property, and focus on my business (and his order) I'll be out on my ass, because he doesn't want to pay for my time or work on the farm. This is why I'm considering the mobile office, and I've already told my mother—who's paying for my bills at the moment as a feasibility experiment—that if this happens, shit will hit the fan in a big way because by the end of next year I'll have more passive income than I need for all this to happen with or without my father's approval.
Anyway, all this is to say once again that I'm not in control of my life as I'm more or less having a gun held to my head and being forced to do what lesser minds have decided is my only purpose—prioritizing their wants over my needs. I thank you all for your extreme patience and I sincerely hope that things work out because you guys (really all my customers) deserve nothing but the best of what my business has to offer, and I would greatly like to give that.
I'll post another update when I have a clearer picture.
Still not dead yet, though work is actively trying to kill me. (I'll be fine just working in what has very quickly become a fema, osha, hazmat, violation poster child) I just wanted to drop in and address the announcement in my previous journal that I would likely be able to quit my job within the next six months to a year, some time between october '23 and march '24.
Well I have two things to say on this; 1st is that, unfortunately it's starting to look as though that's going to—as is usually the case it seems—get pushed back to next year. This infuriates me to quite a degree because I need to focus my time and energy into both this business, and the maintenance and upkeep of the family farm. I still plan to post updates as I can regarding the 3d printing projects I'm working on, and to take laser etching commissions as I can, but due to the severe lack of time available to me (for which my job is solely responsible) these will continue to be sparce at best. I do have one more post to make for a print I did for
sigil-prince but I haven't had even enough time to post that since the print was completed. (I haven't forgotten it Sig, I'm just so strapped for time even doing laundry is getting difficult.)Second is that with as infuriating as the situation has become, I've begun dumping as much of my regular paycheck into an investment account as I possibly can, with the intention of using the gains to pay my bills after the new year. Granted I've been building finds in this manner since the start of the year, I've been getting help with my bills as a means of reducing the overall load as much as possible in order to better convince a certain party (i.e. my father) that adequate maintenance on the farm won't cost as much as they expect. At present I expect to have more than enough to suffice by the end of the year, however if my father can't be convinced that it's feasible, next year will be a very short stint of dumping cash into bills, followed by further investing and a down payment on either a class a or c camper that I can convert into a mobile office.
Tl:dr I'm pissed. I'm putting too much time and effort into a job that I hate, and my father seems to think that not only am I not competent enough to make my business a success as I haven't got the time to work on his parts (which are one of my "big money" orders), he says that if I quit said job to get the time I need to maintain the property, and focus on my business (and his order) I'll be out on my ass, because he doesn't want to pay for my time or work on the farm. This is why I'm considering the mobile office, and I've already told my mother—who's paying for my bills at the moment as a feasibility experiment—that if this happens, shit will hit the fan in a big way because by the end of next year I'll have more passive income than I need for all this to happen with or without my father's approval.
Anyway, all this is to say once again that I'm not in control of my life as I'm more or less having a gun held to my head and being forced to do what lesser minds have decided is my only purpose—prioritizing their wants over my needs. I thank you all for your extreme patience and I sincerely hope that things work out because you guys (really all my customers) deserve nothing but the best of what my business has to offer, and I would greatly like to give that.
I'll post another update when I have a clearer picture.
