Bliss, here's three parts you don't want to leave out of your considerations:
1) Given your level of perfectionism, can you roll your aforementioned quota of 150 in just two days? There's prolly a load of people who can roll at that rate... but can you roll that rate and maintain your quality?
2) Can you roll at that rate and still have time to order baccy in, warehouse it, sort it, prep it, stash it to age, and... what have I left out? I'm thinking the pricey skilled torcedor is backed by a team of low rent preppers.
3) Can you roll at that rate in half a day? You've been in business before, right? You know how taking orders and fulfilling orders and collecting money and doing paperwork and... Holy Crap! How much mundane drudgery will you have to drag yourself thru before enjoying your skill the other half a day that's left?
Have you put a stopwatch on all of that?
As for getting away with it, look: ReMix does.
1) No. I can do 50 in a nine-hour day. 5 mins bunch, 5 mins wrap. Six an hour.
2) No. But I don't do any of those things anyway. I have no stash, no warehouse, my only prep is a "casing" bag. I get the bags in, I roll the things, I smoke the things, I send a few things away. No humi time, no storage.
3) No.
Stopwatch: No.
4.5) Do I actually want to do such a thing, a la Remix or BH? No. This is purely a creative hobby for me, most akin to Buddhist sand mandala creation.
5) Is it food for thought, that even after the growers, processors, ship operators, mail people, and retailers take their cut, I could still clear $3.50 a stick for the cheapest possible stick? I think it is, and the fact that I could clear $500+/day like that is amazing, because the guys rolling at that pace are making minimum wage, because the white boss wants to get paid, the landlord does, the taxman (and thus the politician, the fireman, the policeman, the bureaucrat, the street repair dudes, the teachers....)
6) BUT a hard-working dude running a successful pirate bodega could do well, compared to the aforementioned Arby's nightshift dude.
7) I currently have one very solid CT blend for which I would not take less than $12 for a robusto, so even at 50 a day I'd still be clearing $500. Even back in the day I knew a bodega dude who was charging $6/stick. Like 25 years ago. USA-rolled robustos typically fetch $8-14 nowadays.
