eBay

keziak · ‎03-15-2021

How do you feel about the long hours you put into your online sales business? My husband the lawyer works long hours and is paid like a prince. But all week it's nonstop complaining about the hours, and God help you if you ask him to do anything but rest & recreate on weekends.

Since I work early mornings, evenings, and all weekend I rack up the hours, too. But since covid destroyed my inventory sources and I had to change my whole business plan, I am SO grateful to have work at all. Not to mention the millions of people who have no jobs and the rest struggling to make it on low income.

Climbing down off the soapbox now.

yuzuha · ‎03-15-2021

Honestly, I like eBay much better than my actual job. With my actual job, I have to go show up for 8 hours a day when they want me to be there whether I feel like it or not. With eBay, I can do everything in my pajamas if I want to whenever I want to, and the only part that's really a hassle is the taking photos. The listing itself I usually do either while playing a mobile phone game or queued up for a dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV-- gotta love multitasking.

So I can't really complain about the hours given I set my own hours and work when I want to, as opposed to having to show up at work at a certain time.

iart · ‎03-15-2021

That's because ebay isn't your 'actual job'. For many of us, it is. And when it is, a lot of that freedom you speak of seems to vanish.

@yuzuha wrote:
Honestly, I like eBay much better than my actual job. With my actual job, I have to go show up for 8 hours a day when they want me to be there whether I feel like it or not. With eBay, I can do everything in my pajamas if I want to whenever I want to, and the only part that's really a hassle is the taking photos. The listing itself I usually do either while playing a mobile phone game or queued up for a dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV-- gotta love multitasking.

So I can't really complain about the hours given I set my own hours and work when I want to, as opposed to having to show up at work at a certain time.

sin-n-dex · ‎03-15-2021

@keziak wrote:
How do you feel about the long hours you put into your online sales business? My husband the lawyer works long hours and is paid like a prince. But all week it's nonstop complaining about the hours, and God help you if you ask him to do anything but rest & recreate on weekends.

Since I work early mornings, evenings, and all weekend I rack up the hours, too. But since covid destroyed my inventory sources and I had to change my whole business plan, I am SO grateful to have work at all. Not to mention the millions of people who have no jobs and the rest struggling to make it on low income.

Climbing down off the soapbox now.

My partner is busy renovating an old church he bought... his living space is covered in dust and his bathroom is a toilet in the middle of a room that's been taken apart (while the new bathroom is being put in). When he's not trying to acquire a reasonable living space, he's working on his business that's crashed since the start of COVID and subsists on government loans (now to the tune of 120K) to try and get by. He works all the time, and doesn't complain one bit about me working.

I work 9 hours a day as an essential worker (my latest assignment is to listen to disgruntled customers complaining), and when I'm not doing that I'm sending out letters to get medical evidence to adjudicate claims, and sending off evidence to lawyers.

At 5pm when I get home I sit with my laptop and listing items, send emails to customers, start the prep work for customs on my outgoing shipments, package coins, photograph things, and organize my incoming stamp albums into listings. I do this until 10pm each night with a 15-20 minute break for dinner. Sometimes I take a break to watch TV.

I can take a break from eBay, but I don't really want to. Some days are dedicated to work... since I ship on Mondays, I spend Sundays packing orders. I often get a head start on the packing on Friday night in case I want to do other things on the evening.

What I would like to do, is feel motivated to list some of my jewellery and handbag inventory that I've made over the years, and at least organizing it somehow... All the consignment shops that carried my items have closed, and I need to consider an online venue. Other websites haven't worked so well, so I thought I'd try here. I have managed to sell 2 purses since December (out of a grand total of 6 purses listed since then).

C.

sin-n-dex · ‎03-15-2021

@jayjaspersgarage wrote:
So many directions this thread could go. Lawyers are like Mondays until you need one. Then they are the life of the Friday night party.

Sad truth about lawyers who can't keep their hours down by choice or because the Firm requires it is that many do not see the important parts of their kids growth.

The best thing you can do is be sure is that your lawyer husband has at least 2M in life insurance dedicated to you and another million for each child's education.

The agents at my company (in the legal department) are so busy they aren't returning calls and their disgruntled cases are calling my inquiry line to complain they don't know what's going on with their file. I do my best, but the people I'm routing calls to have been telling me they are bogged down with lots of work and can't really deal with a customer unless they're on the line and requesting to speak to them. They always mean to return calls, but with so many calls (and people working from 7am to 10pm every day, which thankfully I don't have to do), there's not enough time to get everything done.

C.