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Idk what to do boys. I bitch constantly about painting, but customers keep showing up, keep referring me, and keep giving me more work...

Internally I hate painting. But externally I focus on customers, do the stupid shit like clean up after myself, double check everything, am easy to work with, etc.

Like the townhome i'm doing. This lady called three other painters. Every single one of them bounced and just ghosted the client. Like it's so easy to not be a fuck up in this business and they just throw work at you.

But i hate it...


what do???


P.S I have no other opportunities to earn income and my tax obligations cost more than any w2 I qualify for (the last 10 years of my resume is being a contractor and the last 8 is running my own business, so any corporate job gets sus over that).

STOOPID

It's the stupidest fucking complaint. "Oh, my business works and people keep calling me" but idk, i just never wanted to do this as a career.
@coolboymew @rees Well, i hired the helpers last month, and we still hit profit even though it was like 4-6 hour days and I was meh about running them hard.

So if i tighten up the ship the business works.

But i'm on the fence because the next step is getting a work vehicle and once I do that I can't just decide in 6 months "fuck this" you know? because now I have a loan and like fixed costs that don't just go away...but yah thats where I'm at.

I get enough work right now to keep me occupied but next would be bring on a helper, train them slowly until we get overwhelmed, then a second, third, etc...