Appreciation post: just sprayed my 500th panel in this little 2 bay garage
Hit 500 panels through my booth last Friday and I honestly didn't believe the tally when I added it up. Started counting with a grease pencil mark on the wall back in 2021 in my 2 bay garage off Route 9, and the marks just kept piling up. Half of those were insurance jobs I never wanted, but the number still made me stand there a minute. Anyone else keep a weird running count of something in the shop just to prove to yourself you're actually moving forward?
Kept a tally on the back of my shop door for every engine I pulled, and I get it, those marks sneak up on you when you least expect it. Half the stuff you never wanted is still work you did with your own hands, and that counts for something real. Congrats on the 500, that grease pencil wall earned its keep.