Warning: This is probably going to be long.I really fucked up.I do a particular form of therapy with individuals on the autism spectrum. Did the job in TX for some years making ok money ($70,000+) but it was soul sucking work, having to argue with insurance companies every 3-6 months to make sure clients can continue services, only getting 1-2 hours a week of parent coaching hours to be able to teach them what to do, etc. I was providing such an expensive and inaccessible service that really wasn't making the difference it could have been making and I hated that.Cue my "brilliant" idea. I'm originally from Croatia (although I got my BS and MA in the US) and thought, why don't I move to Croatia and provide the service there? I can work directly with parents thus completely avoiding the insurance parasites. I can make the therapy accessible and meaningful. My 12yo daughter will be able to grow up like I did, in a society void of gun crime and crippling medical debt. I can be closer to family. My ADHD'd out impulsive ass had to make it happen RIGHT NOW, so I sold everything I owned and moved back to Croatia with 6 months of expenses saved up, in June.It's just been one thing after another since then. First, my daughter broke her foot in the summer and got put on strict bedrest, meaning I had to be home and available for 6 weeks. I applied for an entrepreneurship grant from the government which would have given me 6 more months to build the business up before having to worry about money. I got approved for it so I wasn't particularly worried about finances until just recently, when the grant fell through due to my dad backing out on cosigning (a sad way to find out blood doesn't mean shit when it comes to finances).This is when I start to panic. I get some babysitting gigs and try to scramble - then end up in the ER last week with what turned out to be appendicitis - boom, surgery, few days in the hospital, tests and no babysitting for the foreseeable future. The hospital costs got me down to a total of few hundred in the bank account and I'm back to being stuck at fucking home.I'm at the end of my rope and like, completely without money. I can't get gainful employment here at the moment because my education is all from the US - according to Croatia, I haven't even finished high school. It costs money to get all those translated and carried over, which I was going to take care of once my business "took off."I feel like a fucking idiot, sitting on a service for which there is a crazy need and not being able to make the $1200/mo I need to make it in this country. I have a free website with Wix that I made which has like no SEO power for some reason. I'm on social media with my company with about 90 followers right now and pumping out free blog/YT content to get interest, trying to do some inexpensive webinars for parents and professionals etc. It does get some interest, but people are just so damn flakey - from 60 people expressing "interest" in an event, only 9 people sign up and only 2 people actually pay and come. My business has made a total of about $350 in the month it's officially been open.I'm sorry for the vent. I don't know what I'm really looking for here, I guess just helpful advice for getting this shit off the ground like ASAP before we completely run out of funds. I've never been in this situation before - I feel so overwhelmed with options and lost as to where to begin. My mental health has completely gone down the drain. I'm not worried about myself, but I could not forgive myself if my daughter became - what - fucking homeless??? due to my inability to run a business like an intelligent adult.Also, uh... I'm on Upwork too, if any of y'all need anything done. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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