1000 nails in a day sounds productive until you realize I can barely make 5 straight hooks without bending one into a pretzel, lol. My record for "simple project" was trying to make 10 matching drawer pulls and ending up with a pile of abstract metal art. At least your 1000 nails probably kept you from burning dinner for once.

Man, you could TASTE the clearcoat? That's terrifying honestly. I've done that before where you think you're good and then you get that metallic chemical taste in your mouth and you know you're screwed. Three days coughing sounds about right for that kind of exposure. Those cheap masks with the single strap are basically just for dust, not solvent fumes.

Yeah but people forget that viral backlash often comes with lasting brand damage that doesn't show up in a 30 day analytics report.

@nguyen.tara hit the nail on the head about that scheduling shift. The referral snowball is real but what nobody talks about is how your pricing has to evolve with it too. Once you're juggling that many clients, you either raise rates or burn out fast.

Hold your horses a bit" for sure, I've turned dough into a hockey puck more times than I care to admit.