01/18/2025
The words I heard the most in 2024:
Automate, data, Lean work environment, family, and the classic “can I get a raise”.
Everybody says automate wherever you can and try to be as lean and efficient as possible in the process. Yes lol robots can take people’s jobs but the guy that runs that machine job tasks just got way easier! And it becomes a tool for your shop that you can kick ass with time and time again. And when you can gain some consistency you can really dial in the time it takes you to proficiently get something done. In comes DATA. You track all this productivity that you just achieved in one day and enter it into a system and you get averages of what you and your company are capable of doing. This is the tricky part. You’re now expected to do this “average” daily and how far can we push this needle forward? This is what I like to call the balancing act. You know pretty accurately what your schedule looks like from 7-5pm but if you stay until 9pm it could make you another $1-2k this week. “Get it while it’s good” is what that devil on my shoulder is saying lol and most of the time I do. But TIME is something that is coming more into the equation these days. I have a wife and a 2 year old at home waiting on daddy to get home and I love being there every second I can let’s be real. Work life balance is tough. FAMILY is something I’m going to try to focus on more going into 2025. Hopefully I can work more on the business rather than so much in the business. I’ve gotten so lost in the building of the business that I’ve lost touch with some of the clients that helped get us to where we are today! I hope this year I can help work alongside these awesome clients and setup meetings and strategize to help plan for future projects rather than being last minute on everything. I hope to come up with a marketing plan to go after bigger, better customers to try to keep pushing and growing this company. And finally, I want to say thanks to everyone that’s helped us get to where we are today and I’ll leave you with some cool merch we printed throughout 2024. Cheers to 2025!