The Ghetto Shit Jump Off

Most of you know that I do web design as a side gig to support my addictions; shopping for clothes & electronic gadgets & gizmos. So this week I had a serious challenge on the web design piece: my first seriously ridiculously difficult customer.

I pride myself with professionalism, patience & a great skill set but all of that, well at least 2 of the 3 were out the window after I got into a vicious verbal argument over something so stupid. After this argument was over and Jojo-9 left, I was so fucking mad I was on the verge of tears and not because I was in bitch mode.

I cannot go into detail but from this downhill experience, I learned a few things:

• Rush jobs are not a good thing to take on in all cases
• People will (especially my PEOPLE) try take advantage of your good will and intentions
• I am nobody’s bitch no matter how much they pay me to work for them
• I cannot please everybody with my work, no matter how hard I work on a design
• I need to modify my pricing scale to detract certain jobs that are out of area of interest (anything Ghetto or remotely Ghetto)
• If someone else refers another client to me, I will need to consider the source before jumping in (tacky, ghetto, janky, ignorant & guilty by association always applies)
• No matter how well I have I have done for myself, I can still go Westside Detroit on a … if provoked
• Talking to a mentor is a very good thing especially when they can talk you down & have you look at your actions
• My wife is always on my side even when the chips are stacked against me
• Screaming at the top of my lungs in the basement to release tension actually works
• My Ghetto, jump off on a nigga at a moments notice, wishing a nigga say or do sumthin' alter ego prefers to go by the name Jojo-9
• My shit does stink stank (sometimes)

This interaction that sent my week into a tailspin of personal disaster was finally worked out in a positive manner but took me a few days to totally get over. Being an entrepreneur is not all that it is cracked up to be when you have to try make people happy.

Cousin Dee, TaMato & I had dinner the other day & discussed the drama which parlez'd into a discussion on being an entrepreneur & trying to find an industry that involved not having to make people happy & we all came up empty handed.

Sorry for being so vague, but I think you can understand.