I have been quiet lately because I have come back to the work-a-day life I was in 20 years ago and more. Once again, I find myself working day after day to make hardly enough money to get by on. I really am not getting by at the moment. But maybe soon, after I figure out some new strategies on earning. I have the chainsaw sharpener coming tomorrow so I can start getting some logs cut down and some wood ready to sell. So that is one thing. DoorDashing is a joke. I will turn just over $550 total this week between working two apps. Then there is the fuel, something like $150. So now we are down to $400. No taxes accounted for yet, either. By the time I sort that out, well, you bet I better be keeping track of my miles! That’s my only hope. I also tend to need to eat sometime during a eight to ten hour working period. I would call it a shift, but that seems inaccurate when I am choosing when to start and stop. And with so much time, I need to account for it being more than I bargained for when I started doing it. I had hoped I would get some time in my shop to make things to sell, too. But that’s not really happening.
Okay, so tomorrow is a day I am taking off. I try to take Mondays. I need a day for me. I need a day to help out with the family, too. Once the chain sharpened arrives, I think I will be working on setting it up, getting a couple of the chains reconditioned, and seeing about how I hang them to keep dull ones apart from the ready to go ones. I don’t yet have a plan on where I will be putting the thing in the shop. I can cut up a few more logs ready for splitting, and who knows, maybe tackle some of that if the sharpener arrives early enough. I could also do with looking at getting the tiller on the tractor and getting it ready for some work. I do have a couple of gardening goals for the year, even if not a full garden.
So, I am keeping kind of quiet on here because I am just to damn busy working to balance it right now. No big deal. I am sure it will sort out before too long. But you know, we do what we have got to. As I have mentioned, I have a plan, and more plans, really. I also am finding the social side of working very disappointing. People have changed over the years. The ones I encounter are largely so superficial. They barely like to be involved with being at work. Even at the shops where they are generally pretty good at the customer service, there is little that is real behind the facade. So, the work is lonely. I almost never meet a customer. I have no company in the car, where I spend half or more of my time. That pretty much sums it up. Lonely, lonely, lonely. Or fake. There are maybe two or three places where I have met some people who are friendly, and real. I am always chuffed to go to them. But due to the randomness of the app, that is not often.
No worries. I will sort things out and try to get to doing some real work earning some money from home yet. There has to be something better than this! Besides, I cannot expect to make money while systematically destroying our car. So, it has to be done.