Comments | herufeanor: Okay, no more custom orders, dammit

herufeanor

Okay, no more custom orders, dammit

Jan 18, 2008 15:16

I used to love custom orders. They were typically fun to do, and money in the bank. No question about whether I could sell the project when I finished it, cause it was already sold. However, I also used to have a very different life. Just a year ago, I spent a chunk of every day sitting in my car with nothing to do but weave chainmail, while little_ribbit was ( Read more... )

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anonymous January 20 2008, 02:27:35 UTC

Have a making party. Invite your friends, provide booze and toonz. We work our asses off for eight hours and your project is done. Quick, fun, distributed effort.

herufeanor January 20 2008, 07:03:43 UTC

I'm assuming this is either Mike or Renee, being the main chainmaillers in my circle of friends. :-)

The thing is, the projects in question are not large. I did get them out today, FINALLY. I think between them, they represented a total of about 6-8 hours of labor, over the course of a few months. The trouble is not having enough time, it's having the initiative.

If I don't have the initiative to do just a couple hours of work on a small project, how am I gonna summon the initiative to organize a whole work party?