Thanks guys.
I have already contact contractors i know and told them to let me know if they need assistance and or custom stuff built for them..
I have been trolling other places (not Etsy that place scams profit of the makers) looking for people wanting things made. Challenge is that most people seem to not understand that custom wood projects cost more than IKEA, otherwise, take your butt to Ikea.
The challenge with a regular gig is that i am busy at my day job for IT/IS risk management, companies that need this don't hire part time night help, and also smaller places don't do most of it at all anyways. (so my degree and certifications don't help there)
I did marry this one just about 2 years ago.. Sweet as pie, super nice and loves my kids.. Until we got married.. Then pulled back a little, but just a little.
Then she wanted a kid of her own and me being all in, said i get it.. As soon as the baby was born.. Night and day difference.. She has what she wants and is going to live with her mommy (bigger socialist than woody, and Ardent Feminist) that is welcoming her. Mommy has been divorced and single since wife was a kid and wants to be that way (don't depend on a man)
I had hoped that it was a phase and that she would get into the grove and learn what being married is (never married and is 40) and what raising kids is.. Hard, tiring, and trying. But, you work through it, you get over it, and forgive. None of that is happening and she's hitting the door.
I think that i am going to have to turn to Uber. Making things on the nights i don't have kids, and every other weekend i am "free."
It just sucks and i am mad at myself for not seeing it, and getting into this mess. It's my own fault.