Celeste
My day is done early, just before noon. Lycan Thomas Reed has permitted only five clients a day and it will remain that way for the foreseeable future. At one point I had seven clients a day, six days a week, and I was drowning in work and expectations. I couldn't keep up no matter how hard I tried—I was burning the wick from both ends and felt like I had nothing left for myself. I was only getting a couple hours of sleep a night, I had no personal life, the portraits weren't always finished by their deadlines. My performance was suffering.
My boss took mercy on me and tried taking a couple clients away—not out of kindness but out of his belief that it was the only way to remediate my inability to keep up with the hustle—as well as giving me an extra day off so that I may have t
