Jeff, I am 80% convinced I had a mild black widow bite in my teens. What started as some bumps, morphed into swollen limbs and joints and I was very uncomfortable for a week or so. Never did visit a hospital to verify. My family is not that way.
Unless you are near comatose, you just deal with it.
Ended up putting anti itch cream all over and sucked it up.
You'll be fine. Heck, I mildly poisoned myself last weekend turning a black locust wood bowl.
Thanks both for the kind words. I really don't like bringing this type of stuff up, but I'm at my wits end this time.
Tweeze, it's the $ I do need.
At least I don't have kids to worry about. That must really suck for you this time of year. I'm glad the others were able to help out. I was almost ready to talk to Joe as well, despite my situation, but in the end I had to be selfish. I apologize for that.
Had our situations been further apart, I would not have hesitated.
So... I really am at the breaking point after all these years and want to ditch the IT industry for good. I've had a very long, agonizing time thinking about it, but it's time to stop thinking and make a change. I'm sure my parents would disagree, as they do when I mention a lot of things I would like to do. (I'm not always vocal about my interests or a lot of other things for that matter and they are surprised.) I have been around woodworking and construction all my life, I just never expressed a real outward enjoyment for it, but I do. Not so much the construction side, that was my intended major in college, but making furniture and such. That I enjoy.
I'm not sure how to say this, but even without IT, I have a monthly income. It's classified.
. It's just not enough to pay all the bills. I was hoping to keep the IT thing going for a while longer to pay the bills while I build a small supply of small woodworking projects to build a FB page and try and sell here and there. Not expecting to be an overnight success, but $50-75 here and there for turned objects could help. I would love to create projects from reclaimed wood - even posted a thread on it here.
I can go on rambling right now for a long time. I'll stop now.