The other thing I’m working on: the loved one quit her horrible job in August ’cos she couldn’t stand it any more, and is now MUCH happier. Unfortunately, this means she needs to somehow produce an income as an artist. This is of course difficult. Though the T-shirts are selling a few (US store, UK store). And the gap from 0 sales to 1 sale is much bigger than the gap from 1 sale to 100 sales. She’s also writing a children’s book with dinosaurs, with the eager assistance of the 6yo.
We’ve also got about 70 litres of mead brewing at home, and it’s coming out shockingly nice. Brewing for sale is of course highly regulated, and if we wanted to start it as a separate business we’d be starting in the realm of £10k starting capital needed; but partnerships with already-licenced brewing premises are feasible, so she’s talking to a local indie brewery about doing a nice mead starting in mid-October (when they have a spare vat) for sale and hence money.
So, her job is to be the artist and mine is to be the manager. Not much money yet, but we’re not starving (here’s to high-paying day jobs in IT) and it’s lotsa fun.
The other thing I’m working on: the loved one quit her horrible job in August ’cos she couldn’t stand it any more, and is now MUCH happier. Unfortunately, this means she needs to somehow produce an income as an artist. This is of course difficult. Though the T-shirts are selling a few (US store, UK store). And the gap from 0 sales to 1 sale is much bigger than the gap from 1 sale to 100 sales. She’s also writing a children’s book with dinosaurs, with the eager assistance of the 6yo.
We’ve also got about 70 litres of mead brewing at home, and it’s coming out shockingly nice. Brewing for sale is of course highly regulated, and if we wanted to start it as a separate business we’d be starting in the realm of £10k starting capital needed; but partnerships with already-licenced brewing premises are feasible, so she’s talking to a local indie brewery about doing a nice mead starting in mid-October (when they have a spare vat) for sale and hence money.
So, her job is to be the artist and mine is to be the manager. Not much money yet, but we’re not starving (here’s to high-paying day jobs in IT) and it’s lotsa fun.