Since coming home from Nashville I’ve been having a tough time adjusting. Being so unfettered and happy down there made me realize that my business is really getting me down at the moment. I’ve had a streak of clients who have really been taking a toll on me; it seems as though nothing I do is good enough, or they can’t understand why they can’t have $50,000 worth of work for $500, and it’s sucking the sunshine from my soul.
I was so full of joy everyday in Nashville. I was doing what I’ve wanted to do my entire life, and if we experienced any setbacks they were minor disappointments. Since I’ve been home, I’ve been bombarded by people who are taking their unhappiness out on me. I’d be a liar if I said it doesn’t affect me.
All I want to do with my life is bring people happiness. With my business, my entire goal was to help people look and feel more professional, and help them stand out with their businesses, not to go home and burst into tears from their nasty emails.
Being Carlene, I have found a silver lining to all this. I’m constantly being told how tough the music business is, but know what? The music business can’t criticize me anywhere near as harshly as my customers can. ”Her voice was off-pitch and the song was uninspiring,” or “She’s got cellulite and a lousy bikini body” is a hell of a lot easier for me to handle than “After taking hours and hours of your time so you could hold my hand and help me make a simple decision about the font on my business card, I hate everything we’ve done and when can I expect my refund?”
In my eyes, owning a small business has been the boot camp of the music industry. There’s nowhere to go from here but up.
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2 Responses to “Gimme my sunshine back”
Glad that you had a great time in Nashville and the music thing is going well for you. You are a wonderful tallented person please don’t let anyone rain on your parade. Keep doing what your doing and realize those who make you feel bad are just a speed bump that your going to get over on your way to your wonderful career.
What’s amazing is that I read this and realize that I get exactly what you’re saying and it makes me wish that money didn’t demand everything out of our existences and make us want to/have to/need to latch ourselves on to something that can suck the life and happiness out of us while doing other things that don’t allow for life sustenance but allow for soul-fulfilling joy and rapture are what we’d all rather be doing.
This is where I’d close with a tired cliché about how life is funny like that but… whatever. Clichés can suck my ass.