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Is It Just Me or Is Money Utterly Elusive?
If getting rich is easy, what are poor people doing wrong?
I’ve been self-employed for nearly two years and I’m absolutely broke. Mentally, financially and spiritually broke.
I write a lot of self-help. My writing is from me, to me, and if readers get value along the way, that’s great.
Self-help saved me. I rate it, I respect it, and I still consume it every day.
But that doesn’t mean you become immune to frustration or face problems you can’t readily solve.
This isn’t a self-help article, it’s an exasperated lament, a muddled exploration into the world of the financially challenged. It’s a big old rant. It needs to come out, so here it is.
I’m poor.
I cannot drum up enough cash. My savings are nearly at zero. My bank account is a sinking ship, I’ve been losing more money each month than I’m earning.
Worse, I’m at absolute capacity for working. I work every day doing delivery job, in both the daytime and evenings. Around these shifts, I squeeze in my writing work or I edit videos. Again for money, though the income from such activities was never huge and it’s dwindling.
