Freelancing in a day rate industry & learning how to trade have been my most hopeful means to end a 13 year stint of working the majority of my time away for someone else (I started when I was 13). During college I was financially supported enough to focus, and it helped that my school was the cheapest I could find, but the rest of life was work.

I’m really happy to work in my biz because it feels fulfilling to the 14 year old me with a dream of being more than a dishwasher. My name gets attached to my work in a public way & it helps give me the feeling of recognition and accomplishment that I hadn’t ever experienced from, well, a full time boss.

I’ve been not working 40hrs a week since summer 2019 & I have never been this physically or mentally healthy in my life. I believe the stress of all was going to kill me, and now I like working hard to further my goals, and it doesn’t provide that feeling of dread I know we all have. I don’t know what the future holds but I am happy at the current moment, and with many memories of when things were different I am just appreciating the heck out of it now.