I own a small business teaching metalwork and welding. I used to fabricate. I am Hsp, suffer from depression periodically, probably a combination of burnout and exhaustion. I have a low level depression that’s nearly constant. Just injured a shoulder so I have been working with a rotator cuff injury since August. I’m in a hcol area. I get taxed horrifically. The business is low volume, we are not really making money. I started it because I enjoy making art.
I have not made much art in years.
My short term memory is shot from stress and overwork. My hearing is badly damaged despite very consistent use of hearing protection.
I’m trying to get my business to grow, bring some people on. But at the same time, I know it’s partly stubbornness. I could probably just move back I to fabrication. To generate the volume of business I need.
Therapy does nothing for me. Got some other social pressures to deal with.
It’s rough. I’m not sure really how or why I persist. I think I just wanted to avoid working for other people as, being Hsp, I find some things kind of difficult to deal with.
I have backed myself into a corner. I have some prospects that seem promising, but every day is the same. I earn something and retain, maybe 10-20% of it. I dunno. It’s not going well. If I were more willing to just do what other people do, I think my life would be easier.
I own a small business teaching metalwork and welding. I used to fabricate. I am Hsp, suffer from depression periodically, probably a combination of burnout and exhaustion. I have a low level depression that’s nearly constant. Just injured a shoulder so I have been working with a rotator cuff injury since August. I’m in a hcol area. I get taxed horrifically. The business is low volume, we are not really making money. I started it because I enjoy making art. I have not made much art in years.
My short term memory is shot from stress and overwork. My hearing is badly damaged despite very consistent use of hearing protection.
I’m trying to get my business to grow, bring some people on. But at the same time, I know it’s partly stubbornness. I could probably just move back I to fabrication. To generate the volume of business I need.
Therapy does nothing for me. Got some other social pressures to deal with.
It’s rough. I’m not sure really how or why I persist. I think I just wanted to avoid working for other people as, being Hsp, I find some things kind of difficult to deal with.
I have backed myself into a corner. I have some prospects that seem promising, but every day is the same. I earn something and retain, maybe 10-20% of it. I dunno. It’s not going well. If I were more willing to just do what other people do, I think my life would be easier.