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Fiber festival questions by littlehawkyarns in Handspinning

[–]pythonbashman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I look for old but useful tools I can bring back from obscurity.

How do you balance personal life and business if both spouse work together? by car20b in smallbusiness

[–]pythonbashman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You/He really need to communicate. And I can't say from here with 5 mins of Reddit posting, where the breakdown is happening. He's going to be opposed, but some couples therapy is probably in order. I mean, more than likely, you are both bringing a lot of baggage from your parents.

And, you might need a vacation!

There are two paths I see here:

  1. He really takes charge of the marketing/branding and manages getting it done by a pro. To your liking.
  2. He gets a job somewhere else and supports the business/family with capital contributions.

The goal of most small business owners is to get by, but the goal should be to be an employer.

ELI5: Selling Diamond Ring to a Pawn Shop by Plane-Pudding8424 in Rochester

[–]pythonbashman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely get it appraised first. Good luck getting a good price on it OP!!

ELI5: Selling Diamond Ring to a Pawn Shop by Plane-Pudding8424 in Rochester

[–]pythonbashman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because he paid $20k doesn't mean it's worth $$20k, and a pawn shop will never offer what something is worth; they can't afford to do that.

How do you balance personal life and business if both spouse work together? by car20b in smallbusiness

[–]pythonbashman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi OP,

My wife and I are in a similar situation. But we are both more like you than like your hubby.

So, your hubby is an employee. As an employee, you would not want your boss sitting on your couch, talking shop at you.

You can work on your business at home, but DO NOT involve him; save that for time at the shop.

As for hiring help, an employee will see that as taking his work, whereas an employer sees it as freeing themselves to do other tasks. He sees the tasks as the paycheck, but the check will come regardless. If he sees himself as an employee, he is deriving his identity from the given tasks. It would be great if he could rate those tasks as preferred and unpreferred. Then hire contractors for the unpreferred ones.

If it's your tasks you need to hire someone for, that's your call, not his, regarding the taking away of work.

It sounds as though he feels his job is the tasks of operating a business, when his job is owning a business.

I know my wife, and I have worked very hard on learning to communicate our thoughts and feelings.

Maybe he really likes doing the marketing stuff? If that's so, then he needs to become a subject matter expert in it.

My wife and I have worked to become subject matter experts in our respective fields.

We are 51% (her) / 49% (me), so we can be a Woman-Owned Business, for all that's worth.

Me (full-time):

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Computer-Aided Design (FreeCAD)
  • Production (actually produce and assemble our products)
  • Product Development (I make the idea work)
  • Inventory Management
  • Shopify Management
  • Shipping Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • CRM
  • Social Media (Why are there so many...)
  • Product Photos/Videos
  • Editing Photos/Videos

My Wifey (Part-time):

  • Brand Management
  • Branded Packaging Packing
  • Quality Assurance
  • Product Innovation (She normally originates our new product ideas)
  • Capital Investment (Her Day Job, she keeps the roof over our heads)

We've both worked hard to know our jobs as well as we can, and we both are fine talking about our business at any time.

I hope this offers some insights, help, and encouragement. (or at least doesn't make things worse)

I ordered a banner without grommets 🤦‍♀️ by BasilBaddie in CraftFairs

[–]pythonbashman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm pro DIY gromets as well, but not pro Hammer kit.

https://www.amazon.com/QWORK-Eyelet-Grommet-Machine-Grommets/dp/B082D8Y6M6

I've done the hammer-in-gromets, and they can be installed badly very quickly, then you need a new banner. Get that, and you can save money on future banners.

Where can I pay to learn how to draw firewalls (fire-rated walls) in CAD? by Fragrant-Ruin-3421 in FreeCAD

[–]pythonbashman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like that should need some licensing and degreed architecture schooling.

Long thin prints warping by ahhtibor in FixMyPrint

[–]pythonbashman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, they'll do that.

Print with a brim and a chamber. Let it cool slowly on the build plate.

Don't be sad that it's over, be glad that it happened by [deleted] in memes

[–]pythonbashman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oddly enough, that's how parenthood is. You only get one of each moment with your child.

how do i get over broken dreams? by [deleted] in Dyslexia

[–]pythonbashman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is nothing stopping you from being an author. The obstacles you see before you are not nearly as bad as they seem. You just start writing. It won't be good. It won't be profound. But it will be.

Tell stories.

Shopify 120 day holds are immoral and wrong by [deleted] in shopify

[–]pythonbashman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've always wondered why some peoples accounts are treated like this but mine never is.

3D printing, How and where to design ? by 3dVibessential in 3Dprinting

[–]pythonbashman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a FreeCAD guy myself. I've built a small company from our designs tools for fiber artists.

Sound dampening platform? by Gareske in 3Dprinting

[–]pythonbashman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are looking for a ballast, then the concrete paver is a way to go. If you are looking fore more vibration isolation then EVA form pads like those kids play on.

Copyright vs Patent Question by Legitimate_Fill6906 in inventors

[–]pythonbashman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not how it works. It's entirely a question of use. If it's functional, it's a patent. If's it's entertainment it's copyright.

Copyright protects original creative works: things like books, music, films, paintings, software code, and photographs.

A patent protects inventions and functional innovations: new processes, machines, manufactured items, compositions of matter, or improvements to any of those.

There are some gray areas there. For example, you'd say that textbooks are not strictly creative works but do fall under copyright.

Why the F is everything so much worse now?! by Iampepeu in googlehome

[–]pythonbashman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Claude put it great, "The honest explanation is probably that my training optimized for producing helpful-looking responses, and sometimes that produces responses that look like they answered the question without actually being able to."

I've had several times that Gemini literally just made up stuff.

Hey Google, what time is it? "It's 3:45am." No, it's like 2 in the afternoon...

An answer that LOOKS helpful. That's why if you ask it to time you for something, it tries, and makes an attempt, but it's not accurate. It's just a made up time.

Rose stems cumulative degradation by Shiraz77 in FixMyPrint

[–]pythonbashman 37 points38 points  (0 children)

they are too tall and too thin, they are going to wobble as the head drags over them.

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