My own work is getting a little bit difficult too, because now I have a broken laptop that half works, but is too expensive to repair for me.
The joys of “freelancing”.
@vincent Urgh. I know the feeling. I started doing 4 days of freelance work with a fixed client in the past couple of years and while it does not give me as much freedom as I would like, regular money in the bank is also an enormous contribution to one’s freedom. (As much as I hate that.)
For the laptop, have you looked into leasing one? I found that to be beneficial in spreading the cost around and have each month something to deduct from VAT, instead of doing the big purchase, spread the deduction it over 3–5 years thing that we need to do here in Germany. It is a little bit more pricy than buying it outright, but I can buy it out at the end of the lease and get a good resale value out of it.
Hope everything works out quickly! Let us know what the best way for support is!
@yatil Yeah, I had steady client work, until early last year. It covered a lot of things for me. I need to find a way to get that back. I'm happy to wait for my own stuff to make enough, and I'm OK if it takes years. I think 3 - 4 days of client work a week would allow enough time for my own stuff. I'd love to work on my full-time, but the sad truth is that it doesn't make any money. Gluon made $600 in donations last year (I am not complaining), Sublime Ads makes $8 per month and shoutouts is at about $100 a year so far. Not enough haha.
@yatil Laptop wise, I'd love to lease... but it's weird here in Poland, and I can't get a loan (which is fine). I can't even expense business outgoings anymore because they changed the tax laws. The only thing I can crawl back is VAT. The laptop is a $900 repair, so I'll see if I can make that somewhere before June or so... which is still cheaper than a new one.