First, how I arrived at this fork: towards the last week of October I had a very big sale, it re-awakened my dead creative spirit with the false hope that soon I would be able to buy beads and really go back to creating jewelry...a lack of supplies is like as I told Joe, trying to stock groceries without hands...its possible but its extremely frustrating and painful. I have sold some yarn (which barely covered the etsy fees)
and traded for some gifts and other odd-ball things...things have dried up again and that burning hope for beads has dwindled to a small flicker.Path #1. I can keep promoting on and off etsy like crazy, list and basically keep doing what I am doing and keep hoping that my sales pick up and I get to buy beads by the new year
Path#2. I can get a part time job working nights stocking groceries with Joe, that way my paychecks can pay for beads and other things I might need for my business
Now...both options can possibly fail or work...path 1 is completely up to fate and relying on the public to purchase my art. At first (back in march) this seemed very likely, business was booming! But the economy went down the poo shoot and so did sales.
Path2 terrifies me!
How on earth am I supposed to hold a job...my new medication that I thought solved all my problems and fixed my health caused really bad side effects and they stopped working...so my health is back to stage 1..constant pain, sickness and I spend most of the day in the bathroom or unable to move. Who is going to hire someone with Crohn's and Fibromyalgia who limps? 
well they did hire someone to stock shelves with a fake kneeSo this is it fate...give me some sort of sign on which path to take, because either one seems like a royal pain
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If it's any help, you're not in this boat alone, babe. This economy has hurt a lot of artists who aren't just churning out trendy, cheap jewelry. I get down on myself quite a bit when things get like this. I need new supplies to make new things, but things aren't selling so I can't afford them. Blah.
Then I consider the job thing, but who's gonna hire a gimpy tattooed lady with Rheumatoid Arthritis, who can walk some days and not others?
It'll pass, eventually, in the mean time I guess we'll have to get creative? Wanna have a white elephant swap? I've got beads, that are perfectly good, but I have no idea what to do with them...maybe there are other beaders out there with the same issue? We could all swap supplies and it'd be like Christmas when the goodies arrive!
*hugs*
Hang in there.
Oh, I can so relate. I have been thinking of getting a part time job too to feed my jewelry supplies need - but have a bad back and neck problem:) Wish I had something to swap. Hang in there, this too shall pass:):)
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