Working on Thanksgiving

Working on Thanksgiving

Posted by David on 3rd Dec 2022

When you own your own small business, there is never a day off.  We work 7 days a week to keep up with both orders and prototypes. I work at the shop making the lights all day then come home and work on orders and programming at night.  It never ends, but that is good. Being bored is far worse.  Creating new ideas, sending out orders and making our customers happy is incredibly rewarding. I love waking up and immediately thinking about what needs to be done this day and how it will happen.  My wife and I being the entire business, there are always a dozen tasks to complete at any point during the day.  Our current focus for example is reorganizing the shop to be more efficient, make better use of space and cleaner.  That and getting orders out in 3 weeks or less also. With most custom lighting companies running 4-12 weeks on custom orders, we get many out in 2 weeks, quite a difference. Today I was on the computer at 6AM working on the new website and sourcing special nuts we cannot find to attach our outdoor sockets properly. Turns out I may have to have them custom made and ordered a few samples to test out. Just that process took over 2 hours to track down suppliers and contact them via emails.  Now I have to work on photoshopping pictures I took of samples then adding them to the website. Of course there is also Thanksgiving dinner to start working on and 12 pound Turkey to make.  I designed a new rustic track light this morning with bear cubs on it, very cute, and have to get that into production to take pictures of and add to the site. Then there are always those pesky customer orders to enter and program.  Even today my wife is going into the shop to build 25 track lights for an order we are trying to get out tomorrow. It's a good 6 hours of work so will be tight if she can finish before the big meal early this evening.  With the Christmas Holidays coming up soon, shipping time is going to be increasing so we are doing our best to get orders out faster.  But seeing all those lighting orders completed and waiting for UPS is the real benefit, something that is not possible with just any job.

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