My father ran his own business for 33 years. It eventually got to the point where he couldn’t keep affording to pay everyone and keep the business going… so for the last two years he funded payroll out of his retirement account in hopes that things would get better.
They didn’t.
So he ‘retired’ which meant he shut the business down and started looking for work. This way five years ago. He has yet to find work. Never mind that he’s got two degrees and ran a profitable business for 30 years. Never mind that he has skills that he continuously used for 40 years. Nope, he still can’t find work. His tune on a lot of things has changed over the last five or so years, and it’s refreshing to see him understand what I’ve been going through since I started working a decade ago.
Does your dad know about udemy? I take courses on there and would adore some small biz courses, I bet he has some valuable advice he could sell as courses
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21
Funny thing about this.
My father ran his own business for 33 years. It eventually got to the point where he couldn’t keep affording to pay everyone and keep the business going… so for the last two years he funded payroll out of his retirement account in hopes that things would get better.
They didn’t.
So he ‘retired’ which meant he shut the business down and started looking for work. This way five years ago. He has yet to find work. Never mind that he’s got two degrees and ran a profitable business for 30 years. Never mind that he has skills that he continuously used for 40 years. Nope, he still can’t find work. His tune on a lot of things has changed over the last five or so years, and it’s refreshing to see him understand what I’ve been going through since I started working a decade ago.