This day has been a year…

You ever feel like you just can’t scrape ahead? No matter what I seem to do it’s just setback after setback. We’ve been STRUGGLING since 2020. All of a sudden we got hit from every side. Ex employees, friends who were secretly mocking our attempts to navigate covid, being so, so soooo isolated. It was just hard!

We decided to make some big changes during that time. We no longer wanted our business to just provide jobs, but careers. So we took some major risks and did some major investments and… we still aren’t there. It’s like we are scraping along by our fingernails and every single time we get close something tries to yank the ground out from under us. I just can’t figure out why.

For example, yesterday we finally got a piece of equipment in that we’ve been trying to get for months. It is something that is pretty much an instant income maker. We were so excited! We picked it up, got ready to set it in place and as we unboxed it we realized… it was broken. Dejected, we returned it, only to be told it’s going to be another month before they can replace it. While a month doesn’t seem like a long time, it’s just another punch in a series of gut punches. It’s 30 more days of not being able to do what we want to do. 30 more days of not being where we want to be.

It’s just frustrating because if we had just stayed in our lane we would be better off right now. We’d be living our life with a lot less stress, that is for sure.

I know there will be the moment when we look back at this as a hard time that we got through, but I’m ready for it to be there now.