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Self employment is weird lmao
2 years ago
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*** Direct from the keyboard of Jeeves the Bunny, providing literary lewdness for the furry fandom to enjoy. ^^ ***
So, this year I took August off work, in part because I had a vacation planned, but primarily because last year August was so ridiculously hot that I struggled to complete my monthly workload, and I wanted to avoid having to force myself to work through such conditions again.
Thus I took August off, and August was... a pretty cool, somewhat rainy month, overall. Lmao. I could EASILY have done a regular month's work. But I still got the time off and even if my vacation plans were rather disrupted by several different unforeseeable circumstances, I did manage to rest up a bunch so that when September began, I was ready and raring to get back to work.
And now... of course, it's been a roastingly hot week of weather far warmer than ANY part of August was. It's currently 9.25pm as I write this, and it's still 27c/80f in my office, which might not be 'too' hot to some of y'all in places where AC is a thing, but... we don't have AC here in Scotland, not in a 'regular' home at least, and given that I've lived here most of my life, anything over 22c (roughly 70f) feels a little too warm for me if it persists for any length of time.
Thankfully I do still expect to be able to get this month's workload done as the weather forecast has this unseasonable heat melting away in the next day or two, but good lord it just makes me shake my head at the very idea of trying to plan out vacations and months off and stuff as a self-employed person. I think in future years I'll just take on minimal extra work throughout all the summer months while still working generally (i.e. just patreon + maybe 1 or two commissions, not a full batch, presuming that patreon remains a regular income source for me in years to come), and take smaller vacations where I can sit for a few hours in the evenings and work on some stories wherever I am, haha.
Anyway, no real purpose to this journal, just felt like raising my hands up into the air and yelling into the void about how hilariously weird and unpredictable some otherwise mundane aspects of life can feel sometimes. XD
Thus I took August off, and August was... a pretty cool, somewhat rainy month, overall. Lmao. I could EASILY have done a regular month's work. But I still got the time off and even if my vacation plans were rather disrupted by several different unforeseeable circumstances, I did manage to rest up a bunch so that when September began, I was ready and raring to get back to work.
And now... of course, it's been a roastingly hot week of weather far warmer than ANY part of August was. It's currently 9.25pm as I write this, and it's still 27c/80f in my office, which might not be 'too' hot to some of y'all in places where AC is a thing, but... we don't have AC here in Scotland, not in a 'regular' home at least, and given that I've lived here most of my life, anything over 22c (roughly 70f) feels a little too warm for me if it persists for any length of time.
Thankfully I do still expect to be able to get this month's workload done as the weather forecast has this unseasonable heat melting away in the next day or two, but good lord it just makes me shake my head at the very idea of trying to plan out vacations and months off and stuff as a self-employed person. I think in future years I'll just take on minimal extra work throughout all the summer months while still working generally (i.e. just patreon + maybe 1 or two commissions, not a full batch, presuming that patreon remains a regular income source for me in years to come), and take smaller vacations where I can sit for a few hours in the evenings and work on some stories wherever I am, haha.
Anyway, no real purpose to this journal, just felt like raising my hands up into the air and yelling into the void about how hilariously weird and unpredictable some otherwise mundane aspects of life can feel sometimes. XD
Honestly, it's not an unbearable situation, just unpredictable. I need to plan better in future years for a more flexible work schedule in the summer months. :)
Not gonna get any cooler any time soon.
I use a fan or two, and could always throw together a swamp cooler if it got really bad. It should also be possible to find a smaller window mounted AC unit no matter where you are, though, even if it meant ordering something online. They're not cheap to run, though.
Just need to find a quiet spot back in the stacks where you can curl up with your laptop and hope nobody looks over your shoulder at what you're writing!