You are making a small profit from an award winning bricks and mortar shop in tough times - I’m impressed even if you’re not. As Marg said you’ve not even had a Christmas period so who knows how much you could achieve then.
Is there any particular reason why you are struggling with the wage cut? Is it financial pressures or do you equate money with success? I was made redundant from a well paying job and decided rather than hunt for another job in the same field (which I could well be made redundant from again) I switched careers and I currently earn as much in a year as I did in a month before but I am happier for it. You left your old job so you must have had good reasons - would those reasons still be present if you went back to the same career? Would you be better paid but unhappy for different reasons to now?
If you have more time on your hands than you are used to why not learn another craft that you could use to make more items for the shop - especially if it is one you could do in the shop allowing customers to see the items being made. Or work on your business plan (or world domination plan as mine is occasionally known) - where would you like the business/ brand to be in a year’s time and how are you going to achieve it?
Don’t have the answers I’m afraid but more than happy to act as a sounding board if it helps.
Sasha
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