Tailor Archive
Thread: How to Maintain Sanity A Guide
Good Luck Qitu! It would truly be a great loss to the proffession if you choose to go..
MasterJian wrote:
I let about 500 items (what was left of my inventory after not stocking for a month) go poof, rather then restock them or do anything with them.. It felt SOOO good!!! It's nice to remind yourself that it's just a game, and there really aren't any consequences for being irresponsible..
Thanks for the heartening advice and sympathy. It helped. I just snapped the other night. That cross-server tell was like the last straw. I was hiding on my alt char to get away from tailor tell hell and then it followed me there. Sheesh.
Anyway... several deep breaths later and a few days break from playing my tailor... my equilibrium is almost restored.
And I think my little rant mail to my guild actually helped. "On no! Qitu's flipped her lid! *panic* I logged in briefly today and had a few I'm sorry mails and a few offers to assist. I love my guild, I do --fantastic, fun, friendly group of people... but there's a few yahoos who just won't take a polite no, or not right now, maybe later, for an answer. Or those who just cannot understand why it's so irritating to have several tells stacked up before you are even done loading. Dang but give me 5 minutes to remember where I logged out at, read my mail and see if I even have time or inclination to set aside my intended plans to attend to whatever they are wanting done. Geeze guys, it's clothes! Not guns, buffs or meds. What's the ding dang rush? *breathe in, breathe out*
I don't get nearly as many custom orders as I used to since Ihave my vendors stocked to bursting, and that helped a lot in allowing me to play more casually without so much time pressure. But that's also my bane in a way.
I'm currently the only tailor in the guild or the region our city is in that keeps vendors that well stocked, is online often, actually will answer tells and mails, stocks components by the crate and takes orders for them too... and I almost never leave the city. Somehow people got the idea I must not be doing anything but sitting in my shop waiting for work. And that's so far from the truth it ain't even funny.
One of the mails I had today was from a guildie who offered to master tailor to help take some of the load off my back. Wow. And another suggested I get an apprentice to field orders, run factories, make deliveries, check what needs restocked on the vendors, etc. Or to see about setting up a guild tailors consortium... I was floored by the response to be honest.
I was feeling used, abused, devalued, disrespected and generally pushed around by people demanding I attend to them now, not later and getting mad at me when I balked or was slow in responding to tells or mails. Good grief, no wonder I snapped. Game, game, game. Not a job. I'm here to play, have fun, relax. Not here to sweat over a hot factory or crafting tool with a chain around my neck and the guild whip laid across my back.
So I took a break. And when I logged in today, I read mail, didn't answer any (procrastinating till tomorrow or later), paid maintenance on everything for 90 days... and logged out. And it felt good.
So, again. Thank you all for the encouraging words. It made a difference.
Qitu
