Vacations & eBay

July 6th, 2024

We are coming to an end of a 4 day vacation of a holiday weekend. Everytime I have off of work I sit here and think "Damn, if I could figure out how to make a living off eBay, I really enjoy this for a job."

Vacations like this really show the template for the job. Normally, I only work maybe 2 hours after work (probably closer to 1.5), and 4-5 hours on Sat & Sun. On holidays, I work the 4-5 hours so this holiday weekend I kind of see how it would normally work. See on a normal weekend, even though I'd be putting in the "normal time," I'm really still tired from working all week. Having an extended weekend allows me to get the flow of how it'd be and it's pretty cool. I walk more often, I get more chores done around the house, I read more, I relax more, I play more games, and still... I feel far more productive than I normally do. It's more fulfilling than my normal job.

Not that I dsilike my actual job, quite the contrary. It pays well, I love my co-workers, I like the benefits, it's a pretty relaxed job, we have a lot of fun and get a lot done. But none of that work is for me, I don't even know particularly if I like what I do, I don't know if I'm good at what I do, I'm very self-conscious of it, and I don't know if I'm going to be doing this in 10 years, but I don't know what else I would be doing. The job is good, but it doesn't fulfill me.

Meanwhile, eBay certainly doesn't use my technical skills. About the closest they currently do is that I have spreadsheets built out that I use to calculate if I buy this for this much and sell it for that much will I make a profit. And spreadsheets figuring out best prices for stuff and lowest prices for stuff. I also imagine that at some point I am going to build a website, I have thoughts on software that I could potentially build to make my life easier and make listing faster. But really, those things are minor bits and one offs. The job itself is really straight forward, it doesn't overlly challenge me mentally, but I still really like doing it. Or at the very least I don't dislike it.

It is pretty easy for me to tell why I enjoy it so much. Besides the more free time thing that I previously mentioned. This job is mine. *I* am doing it for me, and that's so much more fulfilling than doing something for someone else's benefit. I also just have never done particularly well at having people tell me what I must do, I even struggle with telling myself to do stuff. With eBay, it feels less like me telling myself to do this thing, and more me just saying "I have to do this thing." Even when I don't, it's weird. Also... though I like interacting with people, COVID taught me that I like being in office to do so and I was super lonely at home alone all day... the reality is that working with people isn't necessarily good interactions. There's a very strange give and take at work, as well as a constant walking on egg shells. You don't ever want to offend, or say the wrong thing, lest you get fired.

All I have to do is figure out how to make exponetially more off eBay... easy right?


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