Before the pandemic, my full time job was project manager of a rapid prototyping and custom manufacturing shop. I built all kinds of stuff, from touch screen information kiosks, weird awards and trophies often that did something, electronics. Several products I designed for customers are on Amazon right now. We also ended up doing a lot of unobtainium car and motorcycle parts.

I’ve been in that place of seeing two parts I just put a lot of work into making not fit together, and the amount of time it will take me to fix it means we’re not turning a profit on this project. I’ve had to show certain customers to the local patch of pounding sand. I’ve had more work than I can do and not enough work to pay my bills.

And I’d rather be back at it, possibly as owner of the company this time, than what I’m doing now. I’m strongly considering hanging a shingle.