Still in the Storm

[Jer2911]

A bright spot today... Had a phone meeting with web developers for my new venture today and we should be launching the website this week!

This is related to the new business I am launching (mentioned near the end on my last thread), and this is a big point in my "win" column for me. I am successful in my career but got this biz idea a few years ago. Stumbled across something in May that made me realize the biz idea was more in my reach than ever and I have been working to launch it since May.

Normally this would be good just in general, but it's even more so because it is related to my employment challenges when ExW and I were still together -- challenges which impacted my emotional and mental state which I know was a contributing factor to the issues in our M/R during the last year of it. My self-esteem was low because I was having more trouble piecing together the part-time gigs that enabled me to be the work-from-home-parent and this also resulted in us having lower income than we'd had over the previous years which put a strain on us. This also contributed to ExW feeling like she was carrying the load financially for the family -- which contributed to her MLC.

At one point I did get involved with a startup that had a similar concept to my biz idea but that didn't work out. The owner had a flawed biz idea and wouldn't listen to suggestions from the two ppl she employed to help her launch it so I backed out. Never made a penny and wouldn't have anyway if she'd had a successful plan because my percent interest in the company was so low. All of this was happening at the same time that ExW was getting hit with the death of her stepmom which was the catalyst for full-blown MLC.

So to now be launching this idea on my own -- with a good biz plan -- is a bigger win for me than it normally would be. I am finally working on something that has been a dream for more than a few years, and if it is successful I will own 100% of the company which means decent supplemental income on top of my full-time salary at my current job. I won't have to quit my day job either because most of the website will automate most of the biz. I just need to do some marketing on social media and handle processing of payments through the system -- all of which can be done in the evenings. If it grows too big for me to handle on my own (fingers crossed) then I can hire people to handle those things as needed.

Looking forward to this and so glad the meeting went so well today. I needed it to. :-)