You Had One Job!
10 years ago
Or more correctly, I now have one job, and that is to make decals.
I gave notice a little over 2 weeks ago and last Thurs was my final day at the Day-Jobbe. Decals is my only full time income now.
Yesterday and today I was able to finally get all caught up on the list of orders. Some of them were well over a week old. Things had gotten to the point that I couldn't fill all the orders that came in during the week, over the weekend. So I'd go into Monday with some leftover orders that had to wait until the following weekend. But then I'd get more orders than I could fill during the week, and I'd go into the next week with even more unfinished. Lather, rinse, repeat.
In the meantime, home things like laundry, garbage, and dishes were stacking up because I was running as fast as I could just to keep up with the orders. And forget about any new business growth plans. No time for that either.
Now that I'm caught up on orders, I can take care of the new ones on a daily basis. The rest of the week is going to be spent excavating my life so I can function better. Next week I get to start playing around with selling on Amazon.
Now go buy some decals so I can be less freaked out about this.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SewardStreetStudios
I gave notice a little over 2 weeks ago and last Thurs was my final day at the Day-Jobbe. Decals is my only full time income now.
Yesterday and today I was able to finally get all caught up on the list of orders. Some of them were well over a week old. Things had gotten to the point that I couldn't fill all the orders that came in during the week, over the weekend. So I'd go into Monday with some leftover orders that had to wait until the following weekend. But then I'd get more orders than I could fill during the week, and I'd go into the next week with even more unfinished. Lather, rinse, repeat.
In the meantime, home things like laundry, garbage, and dishes were stacking up because I was running as fast as I could just to keep up with the orders. And forget about any new business growth plans. No time for that either.
Now that I'm caught up on orders, I can take care of the new ones on a daily basis. The rest of the week is going to be spent excavating my life so I can function better. Next week I get to start playing around with selling on Amazon.
Now go buy some decals so I can be less freaked out about this.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SewardStreetStudios

RainOubliette
~rainoubliette
Congrats on leaving the day job. Hope this goes well for you!

bigblued
~bigblued
OP
Thanks! It's kindof scary, but on the other hand, being able to finally move forward has been energizing.