It's like every day you brace yourself. You're just like, all right, you just got to get through the day and just put out as many fires as you can and then just go home and then just chill out. Like, I don't want to keep living like that anymore. Like, to your point, now that we've grown, that adds— that's so complex. We haven't been able to take on new displays or anything like that because I'm so overwhelmed and bogged down that I can't. I just can't. These are all jobs that we've been working so hard to get, and like, here they are, and I don't even want to deal with any of them because I'm so bogged down and everything else is going on. It's like we're passing up the opportunities we've all been working hard for. Past 3 years, they're right in front of us, literally right now, and I can't even get to them because I'm just so exhausted. It's crazy because these are the jobs that we've— these are the jobs that we've been wanting forever. Like, these are— these are it, and they're right in front of us, and we're so exhausted to even deal with it. And so it's just leading to a lot of burnout because every day you're just spitting out fires when it's like, well, man, we have all these people here, and I can't actually do the work that I need to do or like to do because you're just putting out fires every day.
But once the business has got to a certain point, and he's already doing $1.3 million in revenue, if you can no longer When you don't see how sacrificing for the business helps you personally, you start to resent the business. Like, it has always told you what to do and has constrained you from doing what you love. Being clear about like, okay, if my goal is that I want to love this business, what does that business look like? And then trying to chart towards that is really important.
