Wild Dog Works

@wilddogworks.com

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Fursuit Maker: Remi ✨ Est. 2016 ✨ Based in Alberta 🇨🇦 ✨ Concept Artist: @kingyoco.bsky.social ✨ Commissions closed (open: August 20th 2026) ✨ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨📸: @coastalkangaroo.bsky.social For all my posts in one feed ——> #wilddogworks

Starting this month, I have decided that I will be moving away from Square as my main payment processing company, as I've found the fees to only be getting worse. Instead, I will be transitioning into a "contract-based sales" platform. What does that mean, you ask?

When you are chosen, it means that I will be sending you a legally binding contract for both of us to sign. It's nothing scary, it's basically a more fleshed-out version of my Terms of Service, with a bit more detail into commission/payment specifics. It'll outline details that protect both of us, and ensure everything is clear and understood between both parties.

I have been making suits now for 10 years, 6 years full time, and a very difficult part of my job is to try and set my working hours, sick time, vacation time, fairly. Unfortunately, my work often exceeds my set work weeks and bleeds into weekends and off hours, and I have been pushing harder and harder to chase a moving goalpost. This habit has slowly developed a blurred work/life balance, and as a result I have become incredibly burnt out.

This is the part of being self-employed that I want to talk about. Having no one to hold me accountable has led to me following a very strict and unwavering schedule. When I fall behind, I don’t list it publicly, but I work weekends, extra hours, or compromise to push my schedule and increase the stress and disappointment I feel of missing these hard deadlines. Also, a huge unlisted source of my work hours is R&D, communication, and admin, sometimes this can lead to 10’s of hours themselves on a complex suit or a complex week.