Do THIS If You Hate Your Job

projects on Dad's Garage asks uh, I just turned 39 and I feel stuck in my life and my work. I was a goldsmith for 12 years and I loved it, but I wasn't paid well enough, so now I have a job I

hate

. Have you ever felt stuck? and what did you do yeah yeah Yo BenTen man is an exact description of how I felt stuck in a job and what I did being as stuck as I seem to be. I have many friends who do what they love and I also have many friends with jobs they don't care about and both realities.

I mean, yeah, I have friends who like working for a big company doing copywriting and they just don't care and never talk about it. literally what they do to put food on the table and nothing else and I respect that and I totally understand that there's, you know, everyone allocates the resources in their life with the tools they have at their disposal um but you're asking for advice you don't like

your

job. current and money is a problem because what you used to do and clearly what you are very good at if you were a goldsmith for 12 years you reach a certain level of ease with it and even at that level, it doesn't pay well enough, it costs gold.

I'm a lifelong freelancer and have rarely had a corporate desk job. I've done it a couple of times for short periods of time, but for the most part it's always done it. I've been job by job by job by job what's next what's next what's next that's the mental framework of the freelancer a freelancer gets a job that lasts 14 years like MythBusters and not a second goes by in a day that I'm not thinking, I wonder what's going to happen on the other side of

this

and as a freelancer, every time I was out of work, I treated unemployment like a job where my job was to find work, so I would go through all the emails with old clients and I wrote to them how things are going, what's happening, just saying hello, uh.

I would think about other industries that could use my skills in a moment. He had a long email chain with a company that built Magic Illusions in Las Vegas. I was thinking that my skills would be great for producing magical illusions in Las Vegas and they agreed. Unfortunately for that job, I would have had to move to Las Vegas and I couldn't, but if you have a job that you don't like, but you've been a goldsmith for 12 years, being a goldsmith is a compendium of a lot of different skills and maybe I would ask myself if there are other industrial trade zones that could use those skills, either as a side job that augments

your

current job and gives you satisfaction or as a place to enroll in a new career um look I make

this

joke but it's absolutely true I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up I don't plan to do it um I'm very happy with the paretic method that I've had to find work and support the people around me um and it's been born it's been born from decades of thinking about what's next and thinking about how I want what's next. after and what the parameters would be.

I also firmly believe in reiteration towards yourself. See, there's a reason people pray and it's because prayer actually works by simply sitting down and focusing for a period of time every day on something that's important to you. It's a massive spiritual practice, no. It doesn't matter what religion you do it in, it's something that gives you a lot and sitting there and thinking every day about what you want the work to be like is a fantastic spiritual practice. Practice how you want commerce and work to intersect with your life. a way that is doing well James the cyclist asks I have all my tools at home and my garage is five blocks away I need good tools transpo suggestions he doesn't say transpo he says transportation in film is transpo uh suggestions on a type of tool bag backpack Pockets without pockets I don't think I don't have my edc4 so recently I'm going to tell you to buy my edc4 uh it's a bucket bag it's strong it's strong since the day is long and it's exactly what I use to carry tools on one side to another between my house and my workshop, which are only a few blocks away, but as you may know, tools have to be moved from one place to another all the time.

The edc4 is reasonably priced and can be had at adamsavage decom Sorry to come back to Filthy Commerce in response to your question, but I really love that tool carrying bag. Larry U asks oh, this is a very topical practical question. Larry U says I'm looking for advice. on how to manage the labeling of individual containers on the deaf cases that I bought from you, okay let's get one out, let's see, here we go, okay, these were the sortimo orange tea boxes that we photographed for Savage Industries, this is my custom color . favorite color orange um and uh what Larry U is asking about is about labeling these inner containers uh these inner containers I'll tell you Larry that um the best I tend to label mine with a slim Sharpie uh actually a Pico here we go a pen paa what's it uh this guy has a very fine nib and I can get in there and I can write.

I don't think it's ideal. I do it because I'm not willing to work anymore. I would prefer a bit of white sticker and then that. I would write on a white sticker and stick it there and I did it for all my early types of nuts and bolts, cap heads, flat heads, button heads, etc. One interesting thing with that is that whenever there was oil on any of the things you were storing that oil would actually stain the label and cause it to fall off. I find that Sharpie tends to stay put but it's not pretty and I wish it were prettier but I clearly don't care enough to wish it were prettier to run it prettier. that's one of those real time cost benefit analysis um yeah sorry my process is to label it on the inside back wall so when you open it that's what you can see.

Hope that helps um we haven't done it yet. I'm sure we're going to reboot more of these, but we're getting a lot of attention for it, it looks like that could happen. Charles M says with his upcoming trip to Arkansas, will this be the first time he visits our state? No it's not, he recommends visiting the Hot Springs Tower to get a 360° view of the area and take a ride on the duck boat. I am a fan of duck boat tours. The duck boats are amazing. I've done the one in Boston. I've done the Chicago one uh I haven't done the San Francisco Bay duck boat tour um yeah dude I'm a fan of some of that stuff um another one that's really amazing is that there are a couple of Chicago architecture boat tours which are a lot of fun if you like architecture and if you like architecture it follows that you like Chicago because it's an important architectural city um and the tours that they have um no Arkansas is uh now I've been to all 50 states of my travels to via MythBusters and public speaking.

I think before I started MythBusters I had maybe been to 15 states or something, but over the course of my college appearances with Jamie for 15 years and touring around the country and the world with Jamie and Michael Stevens um, my last state was 2013, I think, and it was of all things Louisiana. I know it seems strange that Louisiana is my last state, but we opened a tour in New Orleans and that's what crossed off all 50 states for I, um, thanks for the recommendations, Charles M. I'm really looking forward to it. I've been a fan of Dark Atlas since its inception and it was an early bond between Michael Stevens and I that we discovered that every time we arrived in a new city to For some reason, one of the first sites we call is Atlas Abscore to find out the strangest things about that city, so I'm delighted to go to your festival and I can see that there is already some activity here, no, no, okay, no, oh. wait, here we go, thanks for watching that video, are you as tired of membership changes as I am?

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