the_littlest_owl

No disrespect, but I'm confused about this. You said you made about 500 working for about 3 full months - that's a little more than 166 per month. But then you just said that if you dropped out of school and did this full time, you could support yourself and also your mother. Even if you did so and were able to triple your income, you'd still only be making about 500 per month. As someone who has considered supplementing my income off Etsy, the idea of running my whole household off of product orders seems like a lofty one. If you took this project on full time, what kind of increase in productivity would you expect? That is, are you turning away or not posting products/orders because you don't have time to fill them? How would you handle a transition to full time?

This is great, thanks for clarifying. Also, you seem way on top of your shit. Thanks for the advice! Fortunately my day job is secure, as it's my partner's business, but I'm really interested in how these things get started. Best of luck to you!