It's normal to have highs and lows anyway. Winter was the slow season for me. Sometimes i would go for two or three months with little or nothing coming in for money from my carpentry business. I would fill in by hiring on with the town as a snow plow truck driver. It all worked out nicely. I would jump in a truck when things slowed down around the first of November. The carpentry work would pick up just as the snow plowing was playing out in the early spring.



The main thing is don't let yourself get discouraged when things slow down. You just never know .... a week from now you may have more work than you know what to do with.

If you're going year after year and see yourself slowly losing ground .... that's the time to start thinking about doing something else. There's no sense in holding on for so long that you eventually go broke.