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Got taken off my route yesterday for bullshit so went to a farmer's market that I was sad that I was originally going to miss out on. I spent 2 hours canvassing for both the PSL and my webdev business. Turns out my name is getting out. I ran into 2 people that have heard of my business and/or me. I even had a fellow webdev say from what they saw on my sites, I know what I'm doing. Which is great except I still ain't getting clients... 2 years in and I've made 3 sites I think for people and 2 were freebies.
Some feedback I got was that they can't afford what I charge. Even though I charge less than everyone else around(not by much but after my direct competitor's hidden fees, it's about $500 less up front and $30 less per month hosting). So now I'm considering learning a web builder to start offering budget sites. I did mention to someone that I have a "pay what you can" option that I don't advertise for like-minded people(lefties). I do have some experience with Squarespace but not the biggest fan. I could probably handle it for like making $500 sites in a few days. If they have all the assets up front, I could easily crank one out in a day.
Mental health update: I called in on Thursday before my "weekend" so that ended up being 5 days off. I spent my newly acquired time off playing the fuck out of some Satisfactory. Factory automation games makes my brain happy. I think I'm gonna keep that in mind for when I start to fall down the depression hole in the future. I think I am gonna start over though and speed through to the end with some blueprints I found that build everything. Satisfactory isn't my favorite of the genre and playing it is just making me wanna play Factorio, DSP, or shapes2 again.
I think you're running into why corporations keep using hidden fees. It's hard to compete with lies when you're honest.
Which is incredibly stupid. Is lying that normalized in the NT world?
Anything technical you get lying. I have a friend who works for a pretty large webhosting company and according to him a good chunk of the job is just lying to clients in various ways. Either you lie about costs, or you lie about what you can do (Either overplay to sell or underplay because you don't like their idea), etc. etc. Although his role isn't super consumer facing
For what it's worth, I'm glad you had a 5 day weekend, you definitely needed it
The thing that sucks is that by the end of it all, I've missed a full week of work. I was sort of productive though. I mowed the yard and it really needed it. And worked on AI-filter proofing my resume. I'm even testing out some lying by adding a bit of backend tech that I really haven't touched. After running my resume through 3 different AI bots to test and improve, one was like "Add MongoDB and Express.js because those are buzzwords that corpos like!" so I did. I've actually done a small bit with Mongo and Postgress but it's database shit so at the end of the day it's all just queries. What cracks me up is when it was like "Put Node.js on there for more buzzword rizz!" because that's just the package manager/delivery system for JS stuff and everything else I have listed obviously suggests I am able to type "npm install xyz" into a terminal. But even that is sort of a lie because I mostly use pnpm instead of npm rofl.