And while I'm ranting, Indeed's little foot-stampy tirade reminds me of my early days in this biz. Considering it was the early days of the internet 20 years ago, it was, for the first time, that creators like me could access and be accessed by, customers on a very close to real-time basis. I launched the Tinker's Guild in something like mid 1999, in part to directly interact with customers- this, of course, being long before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or even AIM.
I could also post near-daily progress; hey, check out this part I just finished!
That, unfortunately, led to the Whiny Bitches. I'd post some bit I just finished, and inevitably, the first response was "that's cool, but why are you working on that instead of mine?" or "Yah, so where's mine?" or some such supercillious nonsense.
For a while there I'd try to keep the Bitches informed- theirs may have been next, or I was still waiting on a tool, or whatever. But there's always more bitches than there are me's, and they'd wear me down. So I'd taper off posting new stuff simply because I didn't want to deal with their hassle.
That made it worse- like Indeed here, no response is worse. That means I'm out screwing off rather than in the shop where I belong, working on their- and ONLY their- stuff.
Now, you have to keep in mind that there's basically zero money in airsmithing. The vast majority of 'airsmiths' do it part time, in the evenings or on weekends, and do it for beer money. I was doing it full time, and still only earning beer money- and having a to fight ones way through a flock of Whiny Bitches in order to do my day job, for basically no real pay, tends to make one wonder, "Why am I still doing this, again?"
I told myself fifteen years ago I wasn't going to let idiots like that bother me. I'm doing this job because it's fun, it lets me be creative, it lets me set my own hours. I go WAY out of my way to help as many people as I can, and I expect to keep doing so as long as I can.
But I'm also not going to give myself a stroke worrying about guys like Indeed. I wanted to help, I wasn't fast enough and subsurvient enough for him, fine. He wants to take my idea and produce it himself? No big. I invent this stuff faster than people can steal my ideas.
Doc.
I could also post near-daily progress; hey, check out this part I just finished!
That, unfortunately, led to the Whiny Bitches. I'd post some bit I just finished, and inevitably, the first response was "that's cool, but why are you working on that instead of mine?" or "Yah, so where's mine?" or some such supercillious nonsense.
For a while there I'd try to keep the Bitches informed- theirs may have been next, or I was still waiting on a tool, or whatever. But there's always more bitches than there are me's, and they'd wear me down. So I'd taper off posting new stuff simply because I didn't want to deal with their hassle.
That made it worse- like Indeed here, no response is worse. That means I'm out screwing off rather than in the shop where I belong, working on their- and ONLY their- stuff.
Now, you have to keep in mind that there's basically zero money in airsmithing. The vast majority of 'airsmiths' do it part time, in the evenings or on weekends, and do it for beer money. I was doing it full time, and still only earning beer money- and having a to fight ones way through a flock of Whiny Bitches in order to do my day job, for basically no real pay, tends to make one wonder, "Why am I still doing this, again?"
I told myself fifteen years ago I wasn't going to let idiots like that bother me. I'm doing this job because it's fun, it lets me be creative, it lets me set my own hours. I go WAY out of my way to help as many people as I can, and I expect to keep doing so as long as I can.
But I'm also not going to give myself a stroke worrying about guys like Indeed. I wanted to help, I wasn't fast enough and subsurvient enough for him, fine. He wants to take my idea and produce it himself? No big. I invent this stuff faster than people can steal my ideas.
Doc.
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