@STM - You're doing a good thing with the bee-keeping. It's unfortunate that profit can't really be made from it unless your honey really is that spectacular - One of my friend's families runs a self-sufficient small-holding to sustain themselves by living off the land. They also do bee-keeping on a moderate scale and sell off the excess honey, building and maintaining their own hives. However, it's a fuckton of work, and they told me that the only thing that makes it worth doing for them is because they're doing it primarily for themselves.
As for me, I work one or two days a week doing cash-in-hand gardening or handyman jobs for friends alongside my Uni work (when I'm not procrastinating, lol). The trouble with my skill-set is that I seem to be able to do almost anything, just not to a professional standard, nor do I work very fast - but I'm cheap and get the job done. My friends understand this, and tell me that what I do is better than a job not being done, and they get what they pay for, which is true.
However, as an honest man, I would rather they employed professionals to do a decent job beyond my skill-set even if they would charge 5 times as much. Still, money's gotta come from somewhere so perhaps I shouldn't complain too much. And I don't make much money so I have to live below my means just to make ends meat.
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