I seriously want to go on a detailed rant but no one would know what I was talking about with most of this shit. We got this new guy at work to help with Christmas rush and he sucks shit. He came in one day and said he had experience so when someone up and quit we brought him on. I work in a frame shop so it's a lot of manual labor. This guy has like zero dexterity that you'd expect from a craftsman. He doesn't fucking catch on to how we do things by watching. Can't you fucking see how much faster my way is at this very obvious step in the process. I want to shake him like a bad nanny shakes a one year old. He can barely operate a tape measure and he looks like a fucking mongoloid when he uses the drill. Some of the shit he does just seems counter-intuitive to anyone who can see all our work layed out. You're seriously going to measure where to put the sticker for the shop on the back of the frame like that matters at all? Eyeball the middle. What the fuck? I should slap you with my fucking ring hand. We started the same task at the same time today and I did it three times before he did it once. One more day of this shit and I'm telling my boss to keep this idiot away from us at all cost
Do you enjoy framing? (bad co-worker aside). It's a cool thing to see a piece of artwork you already enjoy become that much more enjoyable after being properly framed. I love getting things framed. That said, it's CRAZY expensive. I've attempted to get things framed on the cheap and I've always regretted it. It's an area where you do seem to get what you pay for.
I don't really find it fulfilling from the point of view of what we frame because so little of it is my style. Lots of degrees and documents and cheesy art. I like my work environment and staying busy all day without sitting down. We're really cheap. If you were in Atlanta I'd say do some framing here. You could get a 16x20 with mats for less than $100