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Originally Posted by Smack dat
So, to make a long story short I am finding it hard to be positive these days. I know bitching about it here is't going to change things. Neither is trolling but everyday is getting harder.
2015. My wife and I quit our jobs and started a new business. This business has never really made money and not even enough to pay our wages. I personally injected £10k into the business. The business is popular but it doesn't make money mainly due to high overheads.
2016. We got into serious debt problems. Managed to ignore the less serious and concentrate on the more problematic (mortgage etc). Thankfully government aid helped us out a lot.
2017. Still in business, still not paying ourselves a wage.
Just paid nearly £3k to an enforcement agent and they want another £1k off us for the next 3 months.
Wife remains overly positive. Refuses to give up. Continues on relentless. Works all hours.
Despite not agreeing feel like I can't disagree as it's her dream and something we have both worked on tirelessly for nearly 2 years.
Oh, and I used to make money on cams but some fucktard has hacked my main site and it's still hacked and I don't have time to fix it.
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The cold hard truth is a "real" business is hard and most fail. The ones that survive often end up with the owners working at slave wages and never really making it. There are thousands of people in the same situation as you.
Ie it's not like you are the only person this has ever happened to.
This is my opinion, if what you are doing isn't working, try something new. Is there something with your existing business you can branch into? I don't mean make it your focus, but something extra you could do to bring in extra money using your existing set up?
Can you get a side job to pull in some extra money to hold you over?
Last, with any business, that isn't a easy success, you have to be willing to look objectively at it. You need to be able to say ok this isn't working but it will work if we stay at it.. but you also need to be able to admit and say it's done if it's not working and it's going no where with no ability to advance. The worst thing you can do, is let a bad business take you under because you have miscalculated faith in it..
Sorry if my post isn't very motivational, but the biggest key to success IMO is being able to look objectify and knowing when to keep going or when to call it a day. Personally I'd look for ways to squeeze extra income out of whatever you are doing then see how it goes.