the impoverished world of the self-employed

As I’ve said before, I am happy to share not only my victories on the blog, but as well as my crushing defeats. Right now I am painfully broke. It’s times like these where I saw “screw it” and renew every item on my etsy site just to get the views and hopefully a sale. I did the most abhorable, wrong thing ever and applied for a credit card just to have the availability of funds, however temporary they may be. (Also it’s one of those Visa Concierge ones so it would be like having an assistant and only paying them 11.9% APR) Haven’t heard back yet but I’ve been improving my credit by leaps and bounds so that should be helpful in determining whether they send me this card and shoot down any progress I’ve made!

There is a silver lining (and an irony) to my progress. I am at my last month of the trial period of self-employed before I have to go and get another job. The deal I made with my husband (who didn’t ask me to make this deal, I think I did it more to say “hey you won’t have to support me forever!”) was that I had a fiscal quarter to try and make Metropolis float/tread water/support it- and my-self or I would find a supplementary source of income. Well in this darkest of hour I have been approached, and signed on, my second sales rep…one who actually plans to work it for me, rather than the “we’ll see what happens…don’t push it!” approach sales rep #1 has taken (it’s cool, I knew going in that anything he got me would be a welcomed surprise rather than a relied on income). The irony is, I don’t even have the funds to pay for the shipping to get the box of catalogs to her. HA!

This isn’t really a complaining, whining, post. More of a general update post. I’ve got two books I’ll be finishing soon that I’ll be posting reviews of so stay tuned.

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