Where do I belong in the economy? I am no good at marketing, but I am trying to figure it out. I am no good at relentless work, but that’s due to lifelong health issues that I am working on overcoming, but which has to be done at a practical pace, or I risk going right back into it again. I don’t want to do that. It was inflammation that I did not realize was not just normal felt for people, and now that I know the difference, I do not want to go back. But I want to get the most out of me now, because I can. If that makes sense. So I have applied to jobs around and about. I don’t need a fulltime, work overtime and get underpaid job that is out to use me to death. I just need enough to pay the bills and keep the cupboard full and give a little for hobbies and fuel for the tractor and sawmill. I would be good earning a few hundred a week till I can get on my feet with this marketing thing and get some things sold, I think. I need to keep looking this week. There is the transit district, which will put a fella through the training to get a Class B license with a P endorsement, which is to say, licensed to drive more than 16 people on a bus. Just having the class B would be good if it helps to drive the tractor around on a trailer responsibly. That would be worth doing to get that. Then there could be other driving options available if I need it. But the goal still would be to work from home on our own businesses.
I don’t think all the money is in candle making. I enjoy it. I want to make things in the woodshop, too. That is my primary goal. I keep learning where I can, even when it is too cold or too hot to work out there. I would like to get that sorted out. I can work overnight in the summers. I need a better heat source in the winters. Hell, even a good place to pile firewood would make a difference. I really should get that worked out here. Especially since there is no snow piled up and interfering with doing it. Still getting into the idea that I can do things that I am in the habit of not doing thanks to a lifetime of inflammation. I am still not in the habit of just getting at it like the people I envy are. I’ll work on that this week.
Seriously! One of the kids just reminded me that the inflammation has been such that I could not even pile blankets over me in bed without waking up sore from it. I am sleeping warm this winter, which is a change for me! But that’s an example of one of the ways in which life has changed for me, and how stupid it is.
I’ll keep job hunting this week. Building off the firewood cutting I have done this past week, I will see what projects I can keep busy at this week, too. I need to clean up in the shop. I have those classes posted up, and though I don’t think my website gets the traffic required to fill them, you never know! I’d hate to be caught with my shop a mess.
This winter being so generally warm and dry, things here are sure different to what normal is in my mind. I should be taking better advantage of it! I have tried to do a little digging with the tractor, but that spot where I needed to go down a little in the yard if frozen and the tractor cannot get through it. It is a hole I need to dig. But it looks like there is no luck in getting it done right now, even with the weather better than normal. Hey, at least I know for sure there are seasons to the work I can do.
Oh, I want to set up a schedule for tractor work for this year. I need to be able to till gardens to earn some money. I also need arborists to drop logs off at my place at no cost to them, and to help me procure firewood and sawlogs. It’d be all good stuff.