I appreciate the heartfelt good will, thank you. I feel like I owe a better explanation.
I thought this thread would be viewed as an April fools joke, I didn't expect anyone to take it seriously.
And that was the joke. Because I actually am serious. ha ha. inside joke.
I've been working at a contract engineering company since 2003, but with work winding down (the real work mostly wrapped up around the new year), and my wife gainfully employed for the first time since our first child was born, and with my own side work picking up (despite my efforts to slow it down), it's beginning to look like a change may be in my future. One of the big problems with being a little shop is what to do in the down times. I seriously think that high end cutlery would be a legitimate facet to my work. So I really am thinking about being a full time hack machinist and knifemaker.
David, your suggestion about going part time at my full time job makes a lot of sense to me. Both for their needs and my own. It is the obvious correct answer for everybody involved. But I haven't figured out a way to broach this subject with the owner. He's kind of a unusual fellow and he might cut off his nose to spite his face if he felt he was wronged, so I haven't figured out how to approach this.
Regardless, I apologize for yet another crappy april fools joke. However, you have to admit the fact I wasn't joking was the joke was somewhat clever.
Good catch Stephan. You going to Batsons?
