"Simply not solvent!

chevalier

Hi Seax are you ok. I haven't seen you on here for a while. I hope that you are going great guns

I have FINALLY got my work permit paperwork sorted out and submitted. God what a palava

let us know how you are doing?
chev

buddiebabe

Hey Seaxwyn just thought id drop by to see how your doing. Hope your feeling better now and the only reason your not posting is cause your so busy with your work

Update soon
Buddiebabe x

chevalier

wow Seax you must be going great guns. And that is great you haven't posted for over 3 weeks! At least not on your own thread. And that must be a record for you .

Hope all is going well and that you are keeping up with the payments to the tax man etc.

chev

hypno06

Hey seax, how's the running going. A few of us are thinking of doing the Abingdon marathon in October - is that near you? You could give me a piggy back when I start to flag

Karmacat

:money::money::coffee::hello:

Seaxwyn

Thanks everyone. Things are a bit :mad::eek::mad: here. I'm deep in my NatWest overdraft and can't get out of it. Several of my clients have been very late in paying. Also I've found out the big job I'm doing is not paid at £30/hour as I thought but 28 Euros/hour, which is less than £25, even less when you count the bank fee for changing Euros.

I haven't got any other work lined up, and had to turn down a few days of really high paid work as I'm committed to this other job. All very anxious-making. Especially since OH's teaching tails off in March and the college is closed for a whole month for Easter holidays.

I know we need a big change round here, but I can't see what. I've been looking at job ads online and haven't seen anything I could apply for.

So not very positive BUT it's only money.... we all have our health and I know there's a lot of people with more to worry about than I have.

Edited to add - Hypno are you crazy? TWO marathons? I don't think I've got a marathon in me... will see how I feel after my 5 mile race in May. But thanks for giving me an excuse to boast that my DD2 is the 55th fastest 14 year old in Britain, following Inter Counties cross country championships yesterday. She's in a race in Loughborough in 2 weeks time and we have to pay £48 for her coach transport and hotel accommodation and £12 for a new design Surrey vest. Thank goodness she's not a skier!

hypno06

Ooh well done to DD :T :T :T Isn't it fab having "proud mum" moments (even if they do cost us a fortune!).

I'm only thinking about doing the other marathon - it will depend on how I do at the London Marathon next month. I won't make any decisions until after that.......

Sorry that work remains hit and miss....can OH do any more (or more to the point, will he do any more)?

Karmacat

Yike, Seaxwyn, sorry to hear this - I had an image of you beavering away at well paid work and coining it in, sorry it isn't accurate. Like you say, there are many worse things happening in the world, but still..... when someone says that to me, I always think, yeah, but *this* is happening to *me*, and I'm right here!

Its pretty scary to think that as long term self employed we're pretty much unemployable by anyone else.

buddiebabe

Sorry to hear things arent that good at the moment. I hope in the next few weeks things start to pick up. Have you managed to do anything with the stuff your mum has given you?

GettingThingsDone

Hi Seaxwyn - I don't know if this is much help, but I found meditation useful, as I am forever procrastinating - it helped me come up with creative ideas and really gave me a lift.

gtd