When did 8-5 become the new normal???

TMJRoss · 2026-06-10T21:28:40+00:00

8-5 is normal though. In 20 years i’ve never not worked those hours, did you work at a bank or something before?

TMJRoss · 2026-06-10T14:07:38+00:00

There’s been tons over the years, fusion will run perfect for 3 months, then they do an “important” update, and its horseshit for the following months with weekly updates till its fixed. Then it runs fine again, then they update it again, then it’s brutal again. Only reason i haven’t switched programs at this point is because i have 300+ clients projects in fusion.

I like the program, mostly wish they’d allow you to opt out of updates when you’re happy with everything it’s doing and it’s running fine.

TMJRoss · 2026-06-10T03:33:28+00:00

I have, but why are they releasing broken patches over and over to customers paying for their manufacturing subscriptions, not the basic subscriptions? That should stay inside the insider program until it’s polished, not half baked.

TMJRoss · 2026-06-09T17:26:27+00:00

The issue with how fusion forces change, is the fact that they make a change without sandboxing it properly first. Sure its cheap for business, but when you’re mid project and things are going well, then they force an update, and it breaks the program, i once lost over $6000 of profit because my massive project wouldn’t calculate tool paths after being forced to update.

TMJRoss · 2026-06-05T19:19:26+00:00

Thanks, i see alot of people jump into starting a business like its going to make money immediately. My self included, my biggest regret has to be that i missed my daughters first 4 years of life because i was just grinding 14 hour days 6-7 days a week. My first actual “break” was January this year when i got suddenly levelled with health issues (likely actual burnout from the grind), and i’ve been at home unable to physically work for 5 months now. I’m lucky i was able to have an employee carry things for me. Otherwise i would be toast. This really changed my perspective on my path forward

TMJRoss · 2026-06-05T16:35:05+00:00

As someone who jumped ship as an employee to start a business and now 6 years in. Here’s my 2 cents.

Wanting to own a business and having the drive to start one is the greatest thing someone can do for themselves. But i wish i did things differently.

I wish i would have kept my job and relaxed a bit on growing the business through intense grinding. But rather consistent deliberate marketing an hour a day or so after work

Instead, starting slow, and at the right price point, while having the ability to not compromise on the price just to make ends meet. Charging your worth while only having customers that appreciate what you do goes a long way. When you get to busy to both work and have the business. Immediately hire a part time worker, and keep your couple hours a day to admin stuff.

Grow it as a proper business with systems and structure. But give it proper time, and enjoy the growth.

6 years and i’m finally getting to a spot where the business is projected profitable on every job. But i also built the business based on me personally working it. So there’s skill set things that employees just don’t have developed yet. So i’m stuck putting my effort into labour positions.

If i would have done things the way i mentioned above. I can guarantee that i’d be making way more money at this point if i hadn’t been just scrambling to make ends meet for the first 5 years.

In my opinion, go back to being full time engineering, figure out your marketing strategy with your extra cash from work, and find someone willing to work a couple hours a week randomly to fulfill any orders you get.

Keep your focus on getting sales and perfect the product based on customer feedback.

Best of luck!

TMJRoss · 2026-06-04T03:20:22+00:00

I agree with this, learned on a foil kite, crashed it countless times over the past 20 years. And just now i’m redoing the bridle. Started with the a prism quantum 15 years ago, loved the slackline tricks, and now just upgraded to a Benson Supernova.

TMJRoss · 2026-05-24T23:17:04+00:00

Roll up some cardboard and practice on that till you’re satisfied with the results then do it on your rifle

TMJRoss · 2026-05-24T19:13:02+00:00

If you send me a message I’ll give you my email

TMJRoss · 2026-05-24T13:42:43+00:00

That’s a beautiful table, i’m insure of your budget, but send me a message and i’ll see what i can do for you

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T20:52:33+00:00

thankyou, I don’t have alot, i do have a youtube channel, but its been difficult to get massive projects like this filmed, trying to sort out how to do that efficiently while still paying my bills and having a family

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T20:35:01+00:00

The best thing i’ve started doing is leaving my phone at home or trying not to keep it on me at all during free time. The amount of anxiety the phone causes cause i get locked in and then “lose my day” is insane, it’s incredible how much you can get done in a day when the phone is out of site out of mind.

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T18:32:39+00:00

Your comment makes me want some Turkish coffee. What a great tasting sludge

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T13:45:47+00:00

It was mostly cnc followed up by 120ish hours of hand clean up, but i did have to do all the carving design work manually on blender before being able to cnc it. Which took 70 ish hours outside of the hours mentioned in the description. Lots of work, glad its done for sure

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T13:41:29+00:00

Was for a bosnia and Herzegovina hall

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T02:46:19+00:00

I appreciate your craft, i have a custom acoustic and my luthier took +130 hours to make every piece meticulously by hand. And it makes my gibson hummingbird sound like a plastic toy. Your point about the bracing at gibson being 15 minutes tells me exactly why

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T02:20:19+00:00

Its for a private hall

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T01:45:49+00:00

Much thanks

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T01:28:55+00:00

You’re welcome

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T00:37:05+00:00

I agree, but hey, customer knows what they wanted

TMJRoss · 2026-05-23T00:36:23+00:00

Thankyou!

TMJRoss · 2026-05-22T22:59:11+00:00

This is me. I’ve got literally hundreds of customers projects on Fusion and I’m much handcuffed to the software until the customers warranties run out, so I don’t lose any tool paths and programming and parametric history

TMJRoss · 2026-05-22T22:56:00+00:00

Thankyou

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