Sitting here at 1 in the morning watching television. I am still in shock I think. Today we made the oral agreement and arrangements. It’s pretty much a done deal. The Smoker and I are renting out a large space in an old factory behind an infamous college to use as our business and occasional living space. It will be one part office for my social media, web and promotions work, one part creative studio for me to make things, and one part retail gallery space. I’m very excited.
Now I will say I am feeling 80% positive on this. This is huge! My hope is that this will be the thing that puts me over the top. Together the Smoker and I are doing ok money wise. I mean we aren’t living the good life! We’re still pretty broke. However, we aren’t suffering the way we used to. We go out to eat now and then and things are getting paid. My hope is that having a real location will bring me more business. I have asked The Ex and Shy to work for me on occasion in trade. They’re both on board! I’m also asking a friend of mine from high school to occasionally fill in when they are working their real jobs.
I’m in shock. I can’t believe this is really happening. I’m going to sort of have a staff, kind of. And a place of business. And I’ll be able to afford it! What?!? That’s the crazy part in all of this. I worked out a great deal with the landlord. He’s really excited to see what I bring to the place. I’ll be paying around $600 and my upstairs neighbor, a client/boss of mine, is going to split the internet and cable bill with me so she can use my wifi when she’s there. That already reduces my current costs by about $300 + a month. Shy keeps saying I can’t lose on this. We’ll see.
The downside of the situation, the neighborhood is more downtown then uptown. I don’t think there will be a whole lot of parking (all though I have yet to see it without tons of snow piles, so maybe not.) And I need to build into it quite a bit, which might be pricey. But the upside on on that is my Dad is a contractor, I know a back up contractor that will work on the cheap with flexible payments and The Ex works at Home Depot complete with discount!
Maybe for once in my life, the universe has my back on this. There is a million reasons why this shouldn’t work out for me. I’m going to keep focused on the handful of reasons why it will….
Biggigity Switch 