How Long A Journey?

Beginning next month I’ll be running a start-up again in addition to my current business that is pretty stable. This is my Plan A to get out of the mess I’ve got myself in. I’ve been working on it for the better part of the year now.
This month financially has been OK. I made my last payment on my office, and we will be moving into my apartment at the end of the month. This is a good move. In fact, when I explained what we were doing to my employees, one asked, “I also wondered why we didn’t do this sooner!”. So, it will be a good move financially. Plus, I have some just bad memories of living here full time…it will be good to move on. My apartment has a very “positive” feel to it vs. the negative one I feel at my current office.

I Love Writing

I know I’m not the best writer in the world, but the more I’ve been doing it the more I really enjoy it. It really helps me in my thought process, as well as it just being a good business skill. I’m going to start writing more for LendingClub (they gave me a per-post raise!), and bring in some more cash from that gig. So expect to see more posts from me there as well as more informational posts on this site that I don’t fit in LC’s schema.

Big Hurdles Ahead

I have some major obstacles ahead. Bankruptcy or not? Business Bankruptcy or not? I still don’t have the cash (nor will I in the near term future) to pay down any of my debt, or even make minimum payments. I’m still very much living on the knife edge of this debt mess.

But I’m going to make it. (or so my Dad tells me!)

Somehow It’s going to work out. It just may take a long time.

The Journey

I’ll keep blogging here about what’s going on in my life in terms of this mess. I appreciate people’s feedback and I do read comments! I won’t always agree with what you say, but hey, that’s America!

I don’t know how long its going to take me to get back to even. 1 year. 3 years. 5 years. I don’t know!

Want to follow along? Please subscribe. I don’t make any money from this blog (though it did lead to my gig at Lending Club, so that was cool), but I really love numbers and right now I have 200 subscribers. I’d love to have a 1000!

I really hope I can help some people along the way in this journey. I’ll try to be as open and honest as I can. Dealing with debt sucks, but you’ve got to face it and you’ve got to be educated and make a plan. That’s what I’m trying to do.