Every Problem You Have Is Now a Job Opening (So What Do You Find Yourself Bitching About?)

Imagine if everyone in the world who had a problem, built a tool to solve it?

Instead most people are scratching their balls while eating dill pickle potato chips and asking their Facebook friends if they've found jesus.

Opportunity is everywhere.

What things annoy you? Frustrate you? Make your life harder? Make you feel like a total bonehead, every time you can't figure it out?

For me, here at the farmhouse, there are two things that have been boiling my nose hairs:

• I keep buying paint, and then changing my mind
• I keep buying wallpaper, and then changing my mind

You know why?

Because firstly, there are so many rooms, and I am an absolute psycho when it comes to wanting them all to "flow together." I put that in quotes because I find myself saying this all the time, by which I mean: APPARENTLY I HAVE DESIGN OCD.

Also, apparently, I am a person who can't visualize jack squirt unless I actually see it. Cue: me painting, and then re-painting, an awful lot. (You shoulda seen the blood bath I painted the downstairs powder room. Before I painted it yellow. Next up? Trying green!)

Also cue? Me importing the most fantastic, most wonderful, most British wallpaper ever; wallpaper that fits an old house aesthetic, but has a modern, quirky twist. And then me??? Completely changing my mind about that, because I have changed my mind about the paint, and now the yellow undertones in the flowers on the wallpaper won't go with the pink undertones of the neutral paint on the staircase, and so we must go at it again!

And then there's me trying to make the guest cottage feel cohesive with the main house, but also...distinctive??? Turns out, the wallpaper I bought to create a zone in the cottage kitchen has "clean" colors, while the stonework I had done has "dirty" colors, and never the two shall meet. So now I'm moving that wallpaper up to the big house, next to my clean blues in the hallway, even though the hallway isn't the best place to display this incredible mural, because you can't really see it from a distance to appreciate it fully. GAH.

Now. I do have an excellent design tool called Spoak. And Spoak is great for helping you plan out this sort of thing. Except? I'm not always the biggest "planner." 😅 And, I resent the rigidity of it. I will not design this room exactly as I planned it! Haha.

Enter: me spending $1400 on importing Farrow & Ball wallpaper from England, and now having no use for it.

Or the time I bought all the peacock wallpaper from Graham & Brown, with a dark navy background, only to change my mind about making the dining room navy.

Or the time I bought a bunch of rolls of white + dusty pink florals from House of Hackney, only to decide I would rather sleep in an outhouse than look at dusty pink florals every day.

I KNOW. I AM THE WORST. Those House of Hackney ones cost $350/roll!

However, I know there are other people out there like me.

People like me with rolls of unused rolls of designer wallpaper in their spare bedroom, just sitting there absolutely trolling them everytime they walk by.

Not to mention professional designers, who surely have tons of leftover wallpaper from client projects.

Enter: the marketplace.

Imagine a designer wallpaper marketplace where you can sell your rolls of wallpaper mistakes and recoup some of your $$$ sins, and also potentially buy some new designer wallpaper mistakes at a discounted rate off the retail price, haha.

What's wild is—

I can make that.

Nobody is stopping me.

And with modern tech like Claude Code + Lovable? Or even an app like Sharetribe to make it dead simple?

I can literally build a solution to my own problem.

All of us can.

And, that's the point. This is going to be a fundamental mind shift for the future of human careers: every problem you have is now a job opening, and the interview is just whether you'll bother.

Because while eating dill pickle potato chips with your hand down your pants is certainly en vogue?

It is far more interesting to try something thrilling and risk failure, than to try nothing for the rest of your life, and pretend it's a win.