I HATE my @$!#^% Job!!!

I took a hobby and turned it into a businsess almost 14 years ago. I can't even begin to think of working for someone again .....the saying goes, "I don't need a boss - I already have an a*****e, i don't need another".

My only regret is that I have sort of "lost" my hobby. Creativity is often second fiddle to production. I spend a lot more time in production and doing business things than creating. Anyway, that is why I took up knife making - to have a creative hobby that would be no more than a part-time business. I also know that since I started making knives (earlier this year), that kind of no pressure creative activity has inspired me in my main business.

Anyway - make sure you get a lot of creative time in before you commit to doing any craft full-time. I've been there many times ...

Bob

http://home.attbi.com/~southriv/
http://www.southrivermodelworks.com/
 
Hang in there laredo. I got an awesome job. It does have plenty of days where I wonder but it always turns around. I turn wrenches on autos and have for 12 years. I have been in a hell of a lot of shops and now for an independent that actually didn't inherit money from his rich daddy or mommy. When he started he didn't have a pot to piss in. Thats why I like it cause he remembers what it is like to work for someone else. Now he has a pilots license and 2 cessnas and he takes me flying once in a while with the other guys DURING WORK HOURS. I burned all my vacation time this year on some surgeries my wife had and last week when I missed a whole week cause of my eye surgery he told me to send someone down to pick up my full weeks pay. I also got a seatbelt ticket one day during a test drive. I paid it myself but one saturday he threww 50 bucks in my face and said take it or else for the ticket u got driving a car working for me. I just realized I may be out of line sounding like I am bragging but not my intentions. I am saying that in 12 years I have quit umpteen shops been laid off 3 times and fired5 times ( 3 of them when I was just too young and dumb and didn't care and 2 just cause I hated my job so much I had a bad attitude) and finally I have found a shop where I love my boss. So to anyone wondering it can happen if u just stick it out and keep looking.
 
Once I had a good paying job and lost it. I qualified for maximum unemployment. I had high costs to keep my house doors open and to keep the cars and such. Instead of taking the easy money, I decided to make my own job. Been doing it for 13 years and did not take the first unemployment check.

When there ain't no jobs make one.

Roger
 
rlinger, you still making those fantastic gun stocks? I'v had some really bad jobs. One of the worst was an oil well service out of Bakersfield, CA. It was a skilled job and we went offshore for weeks and months at a time. The straw boss should have been killed years before.When he showed up on a drill site out on the desert, roughnecks used to throw tools at him from the top of the rigs, TRYING to hit the SOB. He would finally shag out of there and leave us alone. I finally had enough and quit. A couple of weeks later they fired the SOB. My day job is pretty good, I am a conservation officer,dog catcher,and patrol officer, all rolled up into one. I have a 19,000 acre US Army installation for my beat. Lots of lakes,timber,game and fish. Pay and benefits not bad, and we get treated pretty good. We have a great C.O. that has gotten us a lot of good new gear, compliments of the U.S.Army. My partime knifemaking and PI work pretty well fills out the balance. I've been laid up for over 6 mo., but I am going back to work March 3rd. My knife business is really good here in SE Iowa, and my wife wants me to give up the PI work.I just hate to think of giving up my license. The day I got injured they just finished building my new shop.Crappy luck, but it is paid for, as well as everything in it,compliments of my knife money rolled back into it. Life sure isn't a bowl of cherries, but it does get better. Hah! This has already put you guys to sleep!
 
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