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All good points. There is definitely a sense of familial obligation at play, but this is something I can enjoy doing, if I can do it properly and with quality. Right now, that's just not there. All signs point to us just throwing in the towel, but there's this nagging sense of duty to keep this...

I suppose that's one viewpoint. Although the purpose isn't really to complain, as much as to maybe see if anyone else has been able to successfully negotiate similar obstacles with family members / Founder's Syndrome. (BTW, the only reason he's running any design software at all is due to my...

Yikes. I didn't realize it had been nearly a year since I posted on these forums. Oops. I should have clarified for the non-US crowd that my reference to 1099 in my post above is the number of a tax form used for contract employees (as opposed to direct hires). In actuality, my father employs 5...

In my "side job" (tech support/consultant – which was my full-time gig before coming to take over the family sign business), I was fortunate enough to have a customer gift me a 40-inch 1080p LED TV, which was a bit too banged-up for me to use as a TV, but just perfect for use as a main display...

Hello All! This may sound like a silly question, but I've been out of the sign game since before coroplast became a thing (that stuff is vicious, by the way...was that invented by a sadist?). Back when I was helping out in my family sign business regularly, MDO was always the go-to substrate...

Dad is similar to your friend in some respects. First, he's about the same age (72). Second, he almost seems as if he doesn't want the business (both the sign business and his contracting business) to succeed/grow beyond just the handful of 1099 employees he already has (I'm the only one in the...

Great questions. Equipment: Roland VersaCAMM VP-300, Roland CAMM-1Servo GX-24, plus various shop/woodworking tools. As far as design/layout, I'm partial to Macs, so I brought in a Mac mini and use Affinity Designer as much as I can before handing it off to Adobe Illustrator CS3 on our barebones...

Reinventing the wheel, one job at a time.

Hello all! I'm new to the forums here, but not new to the sign business. But I'm having some issues I could use some guidance on, so please bear with me while I explain. I grew up in our family's (well, my Dad's) sign business, and over the last 25+ years, I've come to help out on & off...