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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.
@subnetter @pwm technically my painting business is AI powered...i used it to build the estimating/payroll tracking apps we use every day.

Soon it will also convert pictures to pdfs and send invoices.

** sounds of boomers getting excited **

But idk, i'm a results oriented person and I think most of the AI powered "powered" stuff is just gpt in a branded wrapper thats going to fail as soon as API costs rise.
@subnetter @pwm The most profitable thing i ever built with ai for the business has been the email bot. Goddamn little 40 lines of python generated over 350k in the last 3 years lol.

Just so happens the customers I work with (property managers) respond especially well to email, and I happened to get a giant list and build a bot that automated emailing them...

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