LACK of enthusiasm

Sigh - well I know other lampworkers have felt this way
but the past month I barely feel motivated....

nothing is selling except special orders - and I'm tired of making the same
thing over and over (sound familiar??? LOL)

I'm seriously considering giving it up for the most part. Maybe just make them
for me... or branch into some artistic experimentation...
There is little profit left in it these days - and the hours at the torch are
hardly worhwhile... for what little I make doing it...

Anybody got any suggestions for getting out of the doldrums???

Cheryl
DRAGON BEADS
Flameworked beads and glass
http://www.dragonbeads.com/

Cheryl, if you're planning to practice law, you won't have TIME to make
lampwork.
~~
Sooz
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"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html

Cheryl, if you're planning to practice law, you won't have TIME to make
lampwork.

ha ha - you don't know me...
but please remember - I will NOT be actively practicing law for several years
yet--- it's my "retirement plan"
G
A recent poll stated that the median income for "female lawyers" in the US
is like $65K..... I already make more than that from the government... and now
am deep in hock on loans... so I really MUST stay with my government job until
I pay all this horrendous debt off - and am eligible for a retirement...


Cheryl
DRAGON BEADS
Flameworked beads and glass
http://www.dragonbeads.com/

Cheryl, if you're planning to practice law, you won't have TIME to make
lampwork.

ha ha - you don't know me...

I do, better than you know! And yeah, I guess you're right -- you seem to be a
bundle of energy, doing things that 1% of would kill me......!
~~
Sooz
-------
"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html

How odd. A dear female lawyer friend and her business partner (also female)
each make at least ten times that amount a year.

They make $650,000 a year?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
~~
Sooz
-------
"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html

How odd. A dear female lawyer friend and her business partner (also female)
each make at least ten times that amount a year. They do real estate
closings and only real estate closings, and have more business than they can
handle.

But -- how boring. That's not very interesting law AFAIK. I see, when I look
at the lawyers I know (including the one I sleep with), that you have to do
what interests you in the law field or you'll end up being so bored you shoot
yourself.
~~
Sooz
-------
"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html

Cheryl, take a brake for a while and see if that helps. I find that
sometimes I just don't want to bead and I take a brake and then I get
inspired again.
Roxan
"Cheryl" wrote in message
...
Sigh - well I know other lampworkers have felt this way
but the past month I barely feel motivated....

nothing is selling except special orders - and I'm tired of making the
same
thing over and over (sound familiar??? LOL)

I'm seriously considering giving it up for the most part. Maybe just make
them
for me... or branch into some artistic experimentation...
There is little profit left in it these days - and the hours at the torch
are
hardly worhwhile... for what little I make doing it...

Anybody got any suggestions for getting out of the doldrums???

Cheryl
DRAGON BEADS
Flameworked beads and glass
http://www.dragonbeads.com/

They make $650,000 a year?!?!?!?!?!??!?!

At least. She's come right out and said that she makes more money than she
could ever spend. Amazing, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

KLUNK! (sounds like she deserves it)
~~
Sooz
-------
"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html

All the partners where my sister worked made at least that. At Heller,
Ehrlich, White or something in SF. She was an executive there and was the
only non-lawyer in that earning range. They did a lot of their work in
international pharmaceutical dealings.

Tina


"Dr. Sooz" wrote in message
...
How odd. A dear female lawyer friend and her business partner (also
female)
each make at least ten times that amount a year.

They make $650,000 a year?!?!?!?!?!??!?!
~~
Sooz
-------
"Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry."
John
Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance
~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html

I get into that rut fairly often. I had to give up the special orders
because the sense of obligation, and the lack of creativity, was just
becoming too much for me.... but when I stopped, I also found suddenly
that I was't feeling very enthusiastic about "what next?". So, for about
a week, I did just plain frit beads. Two colors: the base and the frit.
You know, they can be so suprisingly satisfying, so pleasing... there's
something very wholesome about a nicely shaped frit bead... that before
long I was adding frit colors and looking forward to the next combo, and
then before you know it I was putting frit on blown vessels and
practicing my vessel shaping, and practicing boro beads... I just let
all idea of profit and production go out the window, and honestly I am
very happy with the results.

Doing special orders all the time was holding me back; it was keeping me
in the rut of "stuff I've done before". Now, after just a week of not
taking them, I am happily branching out of my "box" and doing stuff
that's different for me... I don't have pictures yet but I will soon.
Maybe what you need to inspire you is complete freedom to play and
experiment, like it was in the "good old days", before you relied on it
as a source of income?

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay

Cheryl wrote:
Sigh - well I know other lampworkers have felt this way
but the past month I barely feel motivated....

nothing is selling except special orders - and I'm tired of making the same
thing over and over (sound familiar??? LOL)

I'm seriously considering giving it up for the most part. Maybe just make them
for me... or branch into some artistic experimentation...
There is little profit left in it these days - and the hours at the torch are
hardly worhwhile... for what little I make doing it...

Anybody got any suggestions for getting out of the doldrums???

Cheryl
DRAGON BEADS
Flameworked beads and glass
http://www.dragonbeads.com/