Please advise - it's all gone SO wrong

saxysarah

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy did u miss me yet?????

Loving the news about the work I hope we get the posters up here for our council how cool would that be I shall no longer bother telling people I live by Shane Williams (u know the little guy with magic feet) instead I shall proclaim - see that poster - I know the graphic designer omg how cool!
Loving the latest wheelbarrow too how cool is that - although the pic of the builder and the wheelbarrow - thats gonna take some beating!
Will be back to say goodnight later - but for now I am going to write this damm essay if it kills me!
xx

lisawaters

Poosmate wrote: »

Hey Mike, I see you were a little down this afternoon, I think I mentioned a few pages ago "Something's Got To Go Wrong" syndrome and I believe most of us have probably suffered this at some point in our recoveries.

I guess we just get used to being down and despondent and when things start to pick up we kind of get startled because it's not the norm.

I'm glad to see you're bouncing back though. Congratulations on your works. Keep it up but don't overdo it. I don't know how the Graphics industry works so not sure if you feel able to start turning down work if you don't feel up to it, you don't want to turn people away and end up not having them come to you again but then you don't need to be running flat out from the getgo. It's a tough call, but hey, you've been out of the market for a while and you are bouncing back into it so maybe you can pick and choose at the moment the projects you feel you can handle.

Whatever you do, you know we are all here right behind you!

Best wishes

Poo

Aww thanks Poo.

It tends to be either dead and you just do the annual projects if you have any, or you're flavour of the month and you can't handle all the work, so sometimes you have to farm it out to friends to keep up. Expensive, but not as expensive as a pi55ed off client. You're only ever as good as your last job.

Which is why I never take on anything I don't believe I can deliver. Yeah things go wrong but to say you can do something by Thursday, knowing it won't be done until Friday if they're lucky, is just greedy and sloppy. Puts me in mind of a builder I once knew... You get maybe 200 days you can work a year. If you can't make a living out of selling them, business isn't for you. Or you are undercharging!

And I think I'm so used to seeing what appeared to be good news disintegrating in front of me to the point that I got out of the habit of telling people (including myself) something good had happened, because most of the time it turned out to be a bad thing and I felt like a pillock.*

If I can start working again that would be fab and would solve a few problems. I just don't want to jump in and not be able to feel the bottom with my feet. I guess we all experience exactly this in different ways. (But mostly when swimming).


*That was indeed an overlong and poorly constructed sentence, GrammarWatchers... Apologios. Sleepy.

SouthernBellE*

Hi Mike

Glad it all went well today! 3 hours eh? Well done you!! (I still haven't touched the cobwebs!!! lol)

Name in print & more offers of work, Excellent news!

Doesn't it feel good? There's no pillocks in this story other than the builder!

Really happy for you, any success is well deserved and hard earned so enjoy it, I'm sure your group sessions would love to hear about the positive changes you've made. It's cheered us all and I'm sure it would them too....it gives hope that things can turnaround for the better!

miggy

Mike, I just wanted to say I'm amazed and impressed at seeing you launch once more into work and obviously you haven't lost your touch
I'm not surprised you get something of a down-turn after the highs and the expenditure of nervous energy. All I can suggest is sensible stuff like eat as good a diet as you can, get rest even if you don't sleep and keep listening to all these gorgeous, funny, insightful people who enjoy your company so much. I am loving them too!
I hope you have good night.

lisawaters

miggy wrote: »

Mike, I just wanted to say I'm amazed and impressed at seeing you launch once more into work and obviously you haven't lost your touch
I'm not surprised you get something of a down-turn after the highs and the expenditure of nervous energy. All I can suggest is sensible stuff like eat as good a diet as you can, get rest even if you don't sleep and keep listening to all these gorgeous, funny, insightful people who enjoy your company so much. I am loving them too!
I hope you have good night.

I'm thinking tee-shirts, a summer barbecue... reasonable rates, mind...

lisawaters

SouthernBellE* wrote: »

Hi Mike

Glad it all went well today! 3 hours eh? Well done you!! (I still haven't touched the cobwebs!!! lol)

Name in print & more offers of work, Excellent news!

Doesn't it feel good? There's no pillocks in this story other than the builder!

Really happy for you, any success is well deserved and hard earned so enjoy it, I'm sure your group sessions would love to hear about the positive changes you've made. It's cheered us all and I'm sure it would them too....it gives hope that things can turnaround for the better!

Awwww !

niccatw

Hey... not had time to catch up yet... just thought I'd check in quickly, but I should have known better Best not attempt to read 8 pages at this time if night... be gentle with me, give me a fighting chance to catch up!

saxysarah

Gosh whatever is our thread doing on page 2??? Where are you all people!
Guess you must all be busy being constructive unlike me!
Guess i'd better go and be constructive then *sigh*
xx

lisawaters

Well I'm installing software so I can do the next bit of work for my agency friend tonight.

And a friend's coming for lunch. She hasn't seen the stately pile before. I expect she, like most people, will say - "Weeeel, it could be worse...."

Indeed. It could have an open sewer running through it.

There's a reason to be cheerful right there... Although there's a corner of the garden I haven't fully investigated. And there's lots of tomato plants growing there...







And this chap pops up now and then but he's mostly harmless...



x

Surbybird

Mike

I have not contributed to this thread before but I've read it from the beginning.

I just want to add my name to the growing list of people who are rooting for you, and send some virtual support from my own building site* in sunny Hampshire.

Onwards and upwards!

K

* My building site is not a patch on yours but I do have a crazy-paving ceiling in the dining room...