Woke up with way too much on my mind, nervous because today I would see if I would have to rush to find a new job in a terrible job market or not.
At 9 AM after rolling around for 3 hours I finally gave up on sleep and checked my phone.
My boss decided to give me the papers I need to get my visa.
It was a complicated feeling. Of course I’m happy to get a visa, but I’m also worried he’s going to change his mind again last minute and I’ll be left even worse off than I started. I also worry the same thing could happen next year.
So I rolled around in bed another hour thinking about what I want to do in this situation and how to make it all feel better.
I decided I will keep working there, find another job and keep my private students. 3 part time jobs is likely to become more work than 1 full time job in reality, but if I don’t want to be subject to the whims of someone dealing with the stress of the world, I need to save 50k usd to “invest” in my company in order to get a business visa.
That’s the only way to not have to rely on anyone.
Instead of rushing to take whatever job I can find, I’ll wait til I find a more comfortable one with decent pay. April is when a lot of jobs start here so I’ll probably have much better choices come next month.
I don’t wanna rely on or wait for bitcoin but that 100k target would sure make things easier. I’d love to be able to take out a few thousand and put it into my business account to make a visa easier.
If I work a few different part time jobs and make good relationships with different schools, I won’t have to deal with this next time even if I don’t manage to save up money in time.
So I am working on 3 fronts.
1 saving money
2 finding a backup school
3 building up my student base so that I won’t have crazy losses when I start as a business
Some good things came out of all this:
I do feel sad to be this busy and stressed but at the same time I know this is how I level up. I won’t necessarily always be this busy and once I get in a groove it won’t feel as busy as it feels right now.
I feel like the more I work now, the less I will have to work later. I like managing and designing systems and that’s where this is all headed. And money won’t be as much of a problem as it’s been, though I will be more focused on saving to reach that magical number.
Society, you win again, I’m moving closer and closer to a normal person in order to bring everything together. But I’m playing the long game here. Let’s see how this plays out.
