Bluejacket Photo

I realized yesterday that my biggest roadblock in my “five year plan” was not lack of equipment, or time, or customers, or even talent (maybe).  The thing that stands most in my way is… me.

There was a rocket launch last week, a night launch no less, and I didn’t go.  I had reasons excuses:  I was tired, I had to work the next day, I suck at night photography.  But these are all irrelevant at best, and bullshit at worst.

If I want to make photography my full time job, that means treating it like one.  My “real” job doesn’t accept the excuse that “I’m tired” as a reason to not show up, and I shouldn’t can’t let myself get away with it either when it comes to taking pictures, editing, writing here, or putting new items online.

Of course, some activities are more useful than others, so I’ll work on finding a balance.

I sold a mouse pad last night…  All seems good, I check the buyers address in Pay Pal to make sure it matched the ETSY address.  Then I see that the postage paid was only $2.50, which seemed low.

I mail the package off, and sure enough, the post office charged me two bucks.  When you add the price of the packaging, that means I lost 50 cents in profit.  Since I don’t make much money on the  mouse pads anyway, that kinda hurts.

I check my postage set up in ETSY, and the price is correct there.  The only thing I can think of is that when I update the postage settings, the changes aren’t applied dynamically to items already listed.  Not how I would have set things up.

Needless to say, I’ve now verified that the correct prices are on my products.  I’ll have to go through this again when the rate hike goes into effect in May