afternoon pondering...

I wonder if people are resistant to freelance and remote work because they'd then have to "let everybody" do it. Opposed to flex schedules for the same reason? and why? Things that make ya go hmmmm.

I'm working on finding remote work to be home taking care of the animals that need me to take care of them. Right now I have a very sick goat...like probably won't make it sick. And here I sit 55 miles away in a cubicle. I can't check on her, can't medicate her, can't help keep her limber, move her muscles. I'm gone 13 hours, 10 of that is paid, but in that same work amount time, I could do all I needed to for her...and still log in 10 hours on the clock. I could WAY get done what I needed in nursing and chores in that 3 hours.

I could draft...and farm - all I need is a w2 contract from

my house.. I downloaded DraftSight today, it says it's compareable to

AutoCAD software, just a simpler line drawing capability. 

That would work for simple stuff.. and I don't mind renting the autocad

but would have to be compensated for it. I have health insurance (required by law) 

car insurance (required by law) house insurance (required or bank takes the house)

and then of course the house payment...feed for the animals

lights are nice, heat...especially in Michigan like 6 months of the year

I'm just asking enough...to do bills really per hour - asking $25

per hour since I pay own insurance, internet, computer

many many hats, need remote work to go with them

Today's dilemma my goat is super sick, needs me there, needs an IV being run (yes I can do this myself) - I'm stuck in a cubicle, no work of course but I have to come in and sit. She may or may not live with what she has...but she'd have a whole lot better chance if I had a home office where I could run out give her fluids, meds and not be gone 13 hours.

This little girl may...or may not pull through, it's in God's hands now although we are doing everything we can for her... being gone like I said this long with no one at home, puts the odds against her. I am good at what I do and wear many many hats. If I was working remote with a flex schedule, well you know. Help me get there for the rest of the animals on the farm. 14 years autocad, 6 months microstation, artist, logo work, illustrations and hand painting (not on the computer) I can do a lot really.
http://katehagerartist.com

want experience without having to provide office space? #autocad #microstation #drafting #art #artist

No really, we have been here 4 hours today. After driving in 55 miles through the traffic and construction...in the rain. I've sat 4 hours, so what are we doing today, well we really don't have anything.

I am good at what I do, I put my experience up on my site - http://katehagerartist.com under the heirloom farm page it will give you options to go to remote cad or contact. I'd just love to not fight traffic and just work when there is work. All I need is the software, a license and a w2 contract and I'm yours, need 40 hours a week great, 35 that's ok, need it broke up throughout the week, maybe you only have 6 hours on Monday, 10 on Tuesday, 5 on Wednesday another 10 Thursday, it's all good. If you don't mind I'm on my laptop working inbetween work on the farm, I don't mind if it's 8-4 or as you email me the projects.

I also do art, logos, hand painted sign work, decals

LETS GET TO WORK...TOGETHER!!

#art signs #gifts and more - looking for #remote work as well

Need a logo? I can do that, A hand painted Sign, I can do that, A drawing or painting of your pet, yup I can do that too. Or a topo drawing for your surveying firm done on AutoCAD, yeah that's me too.

I can wear many hats and change them often, it's not a problem.
People stopping in the road, passing multiple people uphill
on a double yellow line. That's a problem. Going 75mph and
getting passed in the 2 car length spot ya left. That's a problem.
Driving 75 minutes to sit in a cube to log onto the internet to work
That's a problem. Driving that 75 minutes back home ...that's 2 1/2 hours a day on the road on top of 10 hours in the office- to get back to the farm....where I should be working but it doesn't pay the bills...there is no reason for it. I don't need a thumb on my back all day, I am GOOD at what I do, I can be just left to - do it. Work when there is work to do, work on my own art and heirloom farm when there isn't.

http://katehagerartist.com

remote work, logically it makes more sense

If you can hire someone to do the same job in the same time without providing them a computer, a desk, an office space while saving them hours on the road doesn't it make sense to do so?

To me it does, I still want to make the art, signs, farm and farm markets take over someday...but until then if I can work full time putting in 40 hours away from my family while not really being away in....40 hours instead of 52 for the exact same hours at work... ok that works too. The extra hours I spend on the road can be spent answering homework questions. Working on a painting, a drawing, a sign - all I have to do if find a company that sees the logic in not making someone drive hours fighting traffic and accidents and impatient people and construction to come to a cubicle...to log onto the internet to get into the network to email a coworker, that is sitting 50 ft away.

http://katehagerartist.com

remote work, reading, want it - senior draftsman

Just part of what I was reading - Recent studies have supported the idea that working from home – for the right people – can increase productivity and decrease stress. Research also suggests companies that encourage and support a work from home protocol actually save money in the long run; an added bonus on the employer side.

The tech industry is well known for its flexible schedules and telecommuting opportunities. Which makes sense considering most tech companies are web based and that technology is the greatest resource when working from home.

I am a tech..I am good at what I do. I'm a draftsman, I'm a designer. I can work in AutoCAD.... I can work in Microstation. I've touched on sketch up, seemed easy enough. I can convert a .dwg to a .dgn I can work in both platforms simutaneously if needed. I have done steel, stairs and ramps, office design, stadium risers, stages, utility work, as-builts, survey drawings, topo, ALTA, brought in points, played the dot to dots, written legal descriptions, worked in civil, parking lots yup done that, drainage ditches yup done that, detention ponds yup done that. 

I actually don't mind the drafting part. What I hate is the 75 minutes each way of fighting traffic at 75 mph where if you get even 2 car lengths between you and the guy in front of you somebody is gonna cut in there. Two weeks ago I had a guy pass 7 cars, double yellow line going uphill. At 5:45am...yeah I'm sure he was headed to work too. 

What I hate is sitting for hours on end waiting for someone to come up with something to do. Waiting for the engineer that the engineer your working for is waiting for to email them mark ups or specifications so you can start to do your work. Why pray tell can I not just do the work. When there is work, from my house. I don't need an office, I don't need cloth walled cubicle or people passing by watching. All I need...is the work. Why should I leave my home at 5:30am and get home at 6:30pm if there is only 6 hours of work for the day. Why can't I do that 6 hours....and spend the other 7 helping my child with homework, helping my husband with farm work, spending a couple of hours on a painting or drawing. Got 10 hours of work tmw, that's awesome I'll sit on my computer and do that 10. That is still 3 hours saved not having to commute. 

signs make great gifts! Name signs, scripture signs, cute sayings, drop me a line

Now is the time to order, hand painted direct from artist, original and always one of a kind not off a press.

 I can do a variety of art related stuff... Looking to work remote and end the drive time - 2 1/2 hours a day I spend fighting traffic...that are out to kill ya off for what? To get to jobs they can't stand. SMH.
I can do visual art, logo work, illustration, if you give me a laptop and license for your program I've been drafting for 15 years, can do both AutoCAD and Microstation. Have done some sketch up, could learn 20/20 Illustrator, InDesign any I'm quite sure. The key would be....remote. From my home full time design work, 35-40 hours a week at a designers rate of pay...every week not a couple days here or there.

Back to the cube

Back to the cubicle and traffic... yuck. Got a little bit...little bit to do today.

Still think think thinking how on earth to get the farm paid off so I don't have to fight traffic and sit in the cube anymore. Ever again. Does anyone reading this know a way, a real way?

Still trying to figure out a number of things we could do to be self supporting. We could do it if the house/land/farm was paid off and I had money in bank for insurance for a couple of years. We have a plan... mercy I'd love to be done being an office employee though. Been doing it just to many years with no changes for the better seen in that time frame.

http://katehagerartist.com

to the farmers,gardeners, country folk

You'll get this, some others maybe not but it's all good. I thought of this on the way in... my job is like having to go sit in the cab of a tractor at 7am...that is broke. And you know the mechanic isn't coming til at least 9.

But if you don't show up at 7 your late. And there will be someone to make sure your there. You can't read anything but the service manual...that you've been looking at for 2 weeks cause that's how long the tractor been broke. Otherwise you don't "look busy" You see the mechanic come in...walks by closes door. Dang it back to cleaning it again even though you did that two days ago....meanwhile there are 3 bushels of tomatoes at home that need something done, 5 rabbits that need to go in the freezer, squash to pick, potatoes to dig...you get the idea. So you sit...again....... finally comes out at 10am good news we got the parts!! AWESOME I get something to do right. Naw I'm heading over to fix the drill and get it ready. But I'll be back to talk about fixing this at 4 and maybe tomorrow we'll get to it.

so the artist and farmer sits. There is soap to be made

have to get ready for market tmw, I could do a charcoal drawing of this size and detail in the 

amount of time I sit in my office chair every week. It's not just this office, I've been drafting/

designing autocad and microstation for 15 years. It's the field, the folks here are pretty decent

folks for the most part. 

But to the farmers out there that are now thinking what a waste of time.

You understand.

My non farmer friends say but they pay you. Yes they pay me.

Anyone that works pay check to pay check understands I have to show up and sit.

I can't not and still pay bills.

But... I so wish I could just pay off the farm and no longer have to do this.

http://katehagerartist.com

katehagerartist@gmail.com

halfway through the week, positive thoughts, it's gonna happen!!!

It's gonna happen, the farm will get to the point to pay for itself between the goat milk soap, hand made lotions, my ART work - I will find my customers who want hand painted sign work over mass printed commercial corporate. And someday when I'm home and not fighting this traffic...

I'm going to be able to do charcoals, airbrushing and maybe even finally learn to weld and do sculpture work!!! It will, I just have to keep posting, putting up ads and someone will happen upon them and share them and it will take off. And I will be rid of the cubicle life forever :-) The hand painted sign work is what I'd like to make my base with the soaps and lotions and gift baskets seasonal. Go check out http://katehagerartist.com

and yes these are drawings....done by me. Back when I was

laid off.. no time now to do them, so many good

ideas, no time. Most of these have the originals

sitting in a canvas hard case in our storage

room. They belong framed up on someone's wall

We will put some up, but really I'd like to see

them at a collectors, a gallery, somewhere appreciated.

anyone need a professional artist to work from them remotely??

Know someone that might? Pass em over to my website http://katehagerartist.com

I have a variety of mixed media, sign painting, visual art, illustration skills along with my drafting and design. If they'd let me work remote on a laptop to design and do autocad or microstation I'd be all for that too. Right now I drive 2 and a half hours a day....to sit....for 10 hours. They are sure that "soon" we'll get stuff to work on. I am good at what I do, all of it the art and the cad. I need to get rid of that work days worth of driving every week, that time to work on my own stuff would be HUGE. I spend 10 hours a week fighting traffic. Well more than that if you include drive time to farmers markets too, but 10 hours drive time to my drafting job. And yes I'm thankful I have a job and can pay out all of my paycheck to pay bills to have the farm. But... I still long to be able to find a way to just pay off the farm, and stay there. Full time, working on garden and critters, soap and lotions, art and signs. Need that 35-40 hours paycheck to do that, doing the same thing remotely would be awesome but nobody wants to let a worker just do the work itself. If the deadline is met who cares if your in a cloth cubed wall or sitting beside a hay field?? They do...but why, never figured that one out.

pondering thoughts this Monday morning

I went out to milk the goat at 5:15am and the stars were GORGEOUS - but I didn't have time to stop and just look....

I don't have time to stop and talk to my babies in the morning...got to rush rush get to work. Got to fight the people that won't give more than 2 cars lengths if you lucky at 70 mph. To come sit at a desk away from nature and the garden, our critters the fields. There HAS to be a way to pay off this farm. A real way to get it paid off to get out of this rat race.

 I'm going to offer gift baskets along with the soaps, lotions and art...pondering adding hand painted reusable market bags - changed my email so sick of what yahoo has on it's lead page/news...biased email me at katehagerartist@gmail.com to discuss gifts or art..sign work, soap needs or with valid ideas to pay off the farm. No surveys, businesses you have to buy stuff every month.

easier simpler website...did a revamp yesterday to de clutter

Hope y'all like it. It was slow yesterday...like just about every day has been for two weeks lolol. So I thought I would work on my OWN business...that I'm trying to build to get out of this j.o.b. I don't mind working, actually don't mind drafting, wouldn't mind doing it when I had time on a laptop at all for income but nobody wants that. They want you in a cubicle where they can "keep an eye on you" and "make sure your working!!" If you meet the deadlines what is the difference I ask? We sit 2/3 of the day with nothing right now and you don't mind paying out an hourly wage for that...but don't trust we'd bill what we actually worked at home. Really??? Just flat out makes no sense.

 Sign work is $20 an hour plus materials and shipping, visual art, charcoals
hand painted work, scripture signs, mural work when I get the time and
of course working our heirloom produce farm, raising cows, goats, rabbits
chickens and making soap - that is the goal!! Help me achieve it
http://katehagerartist.com

it's not about overtime dorks really it isnt'

Sitting 10 hours a day doing nothing...so when it finally comes in we CAN get that time and a half overtime to make the deadlines. Yeah I'm not into that.

I'd rather have the steady 40, the plod along pace, constant work. This sitting around waiting for them to get us info so we can fall over ourselves trying to reach a deadline when they are 2 weeks behind on theirs is for the birds.

I want my cows, my hay fields, my garden, my art work to pay the bills so this madness is left behind. Help me get there http://katehagerartist.com

Not much of a holiday weekend

Husband worked for a friend all weekend, I canned, peeled picked. Really not much of a holiday weekend, he won't take time to do things unless it's for other people. MEH. Back at the office in my cube for the week. Still hoping something happens so I can pay off farm and get to do art and sign work from home and end the traffic fights at least. http://katehagerartist.com

market tomorrow and Saturday, come on out Michigan folks

If your near Carson City Michigan on Friday or Portland Michigan on Saturday stop on out and pick up some fresh heirloom fruits and veggies... a bar of handmade goat milk soap, and some art for your garden or landscaping.

Help us work our way out of work. The farm needs paid off somehow, someway...so we can stay home and work it properly giving the time to the garden and animals it needs not just what we can do outside of work hours.

Order a sign for your home, cabin, camper or office!! The smaller ones end up in the $20-40 range plus shipping to your postal code. Hand Painted...direct from artist, and one of a kind original, let me know what you want along with your name from a frog to a flower. http://katehagerartist.com