Hit 500 shutters fixed this month, never thought I'd get there
I mean, I've been doing this part time out of my garage in Cleveland for about 18 months now. Last Friday I was counting my repair logs for June and realized I'd hit 500 total shutters, not just this month but overall. That number surprised me because when I started, I was lucky to finish one shutter rebuild a week without screwing up the blade alignment. Most of those 500 were basic curtain and leaf replacements, but maybe 40 of them were those sticky old mechanical timers that everyone gives up on. I actually kept a broken one from each job in a shoebox, and counting those made it feel real. The funny thing is, hitting 500 didn't change my pricing or anything, it just made me trust my own diagnosis faster. Has anyone else hit a count or milestone that made you stop and rethink what you're actually doing here?