Gone Mad
The shop continues as strong as I can make it. With the help of everyone here we are keeping in the game. It is sad to hear when another store goes out of business. I don't know...admittedly sometimes I just wonder...
Working for yourself in anything is tough. Bills pile up. Taxes due. Legalities abound. It is stressful and every day is a new challenge. Some have the personality to take this on. I'd like to think that I do. If it weren't for the people who come to the store I can say I wouldn't be doing what I am. They are why I get up, work hard, and struggle through debt and sleepless nights.
Unless you actually DO this - live this lifestyle - I cannot describe it to you accurately. This is also, for those who chide business owners as richy-riches, fatcats, greedy, etc., I am so impassioned to correct. Many times the line is tight and things can be month-to-month. Juggling, negotiating, budgeting, and savvy are needed and I have failed to keep several of those plates spinning. It just takes one slip and things go awry.
What if I had to close?
That is the tough question I have to face, and ask myself, every day. Not as a source of fear, but a motivator to stay up on things.
Oh, also as it has been customary for my posts I am pissed off at Congress (Rs and Ds). What a bunch of weaklings who must love to masturbate politically in front of the entire nation. It is sickening. 2012 can't come fast enough to flush the crap out of there.
I just may be a beard and scattergun away from being a mountain man, or maybe more people agree with me than it seems?
Some day I will have a happy-go-lucky post like the days of yore. Hang in there.
Working for yourself in anything is tough. Bills pile up. Taxes due. Legalities abound. It is stressful and every day is a new challenge. Some have the personality to take this on. I'd like to think that I do. If it weren't for the people who come to the store I can say I wouldn't be doing what I am. They are why I get up, work hard, and struggle through debt and sleepless nights.
Unless you actually DO this - live this lifestyle - I cannot describe it to you accurately. This is also, for those who chide business owners as richy-riches, fatcats, greedy, etc., I am so impassioned to correct. Many times the line is tight and things can be month-to-month. Juggling, negotiating, budgeting, and savvy are needed and I have failed to keep several of those plates spinning. It just takes one slip and things go awry.
What if I had to close?
That is the tough question I have to face, and ask myself, every day. Not as a source of fear, but a motivator to stay up on things.
Oh, also as it has been customary for my posts I am pissed off at Congress (Rs and Ds). What a bunch of weaklings who must love to masturbate politically in front of the entire nation. It is sickening. 2012 can't come fast enough to flush the crap out of there.
I just may be a beard and scattergun away from being a mountain man, or maybe more people agree with me than it seems?
Some day I will have a happy-go-lucky post like the days of yore. Hang in there.