Under Pressure,
Its been quite the last couple of days. Feels like weeks. Pressure of running a business is very unreal. I almost quit. I have to admit, there was major anxiety that was going on with me. I cant begin to express the feelings that were all going on at once. Shall I start from the beginning? You’re still reading so ill go ahead and assume yes. I commited a very big mistake by going out for drinks with my guys. Just to shake off the day we just went through. One turned to two, next thing you know its a late night. One of my guys didn’t wake up the next morning. Mind you I had just fired him a week prior to that. The guy that I had brought to help me from oklahoma made a good point that the project was large and that we needed him. So I asked him again to help out. Well after that night of going for drinks he quit. AT THE WORST POSSIBLE MOMENT. Deadline was here and there I was, SHORT STAFFED. Well show must go on right? Right. We were sanding the skim coat by hand. My Funds were low so i had to becarful where I spent money. I remembered a video that Ive seen days prior. An electric Sander. Well I searched and found two a festool and a porter cable. One was available in store another on craigslist. Festool came to $1,200.00 and the porter was for $340 on craigslist. The clutch on the truck gave out and was in the shop so… YES Lyft was the only choice. I go out buy the sander and get to work. It worked better than I imagined very minimal dust. Quicker than hand sanding, I know crazy right? Then it hit me! SHIT i have to get drywall sheets to hang where they did the remidiation. With no truck I once again Lyfted to HomeDepot and rented a truck for ninety minuets. Loaded the materials and off to the races. I had once again another road block. How do I hang the sheets to the wall when the wall is made of blocks. After several phone calls with drywallers that I know, I found that the same USG all purpose mud you just put blobs on the back to anchor it. Problem solved. What can go wrong now? Well being that we are working at a ballrom its often rented. The amount of work that these walls required pushed us over the deadline. So now we had to go ahead and clean and vacum after we were done so that was about an hour and a half to two hours to make sure there wasnt any dust on the carpet. Managing every obstacle. At the moment i hated it. Now at this very moment I am very greatful of what i experienced. Between workers situations and methods. I can now appreciate the lessons. I write to you after working 14 hours through the night. This ass woopin i just recieved was a lesson that ill be learning from and better believe that the next project will be easier than this though the tools I purchased that i will be able to use on the next one, along side with the knowledge.
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