Being Tested

Another challenge to overcome

I was hoping to have a more substantial update for you, but fate conspired against me this week. Two very eventful occurrences happened on the same day this week: one good one that was the result of a lot of work, and one bad one that I did not see coming.

I don’t typically like to drag the bad events that happen in my personal life into my writing here, but since this directly effects my writing and production output, I owe my subscribers an explanation of my situation. On Wednesday, I reinstated my Etherkit LLC registration with the state, which required a larger sum than typical to make up for the couple of years that I was idle in the aftermath of the pandemic. I also was able to reapply for my assumed business name (DBA). Payment of both of these fees were possible thanks to my fine business paid subscribers!

Literally within an hour of paying for these filings and feeling great that Etherkit was well on track to be back in action very soon, I suffered a pretty crushing blow. I found out that I was let go from my job. Since I was working as a 1099 contractor, I don’t have any unemployment benefits or any other kind of buffer to help me out. I knew this job wasn’t going to last forever, and my whole plan was to get Etherkit LLC back up and making some money so that I could transition gracefully. However, the rug got pulled on me a lot faster than I expected.

Unfortunately, this is going to put a crimp on my Etherkit relaunch plans, Project Yamhill development, and my writing on this publication. At least until I can get some new income coming back in and hopefully have the free time to make this all work. I’m definitely not quitting on anything, but things are uncertain and frankly a bit scary at the moment, and I have to get over this hurdle first. I’ll do my best to keep writing for you, and to keep all of my projects moving forward to some degree. Hopefully this is just a short hiccup, and things will be back on track very soon. If you happen to have any leads on remote IT or coding work, let me know in the comments.

Thanks again for all of your support and I’m looking forward to putting these difficult times behind me.