I unscripted because I had no other choice.

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Long time lurker, first time poster. Basically, I was kicked out of my high school in the 2000s and talked my way into working at the local newspaper. The work enchanted me and everyone knew I was going to be a writer. I became an excellent reporter and well-known in my hometown.

I don't have to tell you what happened. Financial crisis, the collapse of news, and particularly here in Australia the media let itself die for short-term profits. Fast forward a decade of odd jobs and bad pay, when those odd jobs didn't stiff me. I eventually became a counsellor (which is just like interviewing people for stories), got my diploma, and that very month the industry decided you now needed a Bachelor's and not just a diploma to get a job. I felt like I was in a scam. Another $20,000 and two years to work a job you already promised me? Yeah, next you'll be selling me a Nigerian principality. I went back to odd jobs.

In 2018, while I was recovering from having a piece of my spine removed, I read TMF and damn did it make sense to me. Since then I've been starting businesses and using them to achieve what I want. The news prepared me to network and negotiate, and counselling taught me to listen. I thrived at conferences. Here's what I do:

1) I sell information
2) I sell shovels

For example, I'm a writer. I didn't go to copywriter's conferences where everyone was looking for a business, I went to a business conference and told everyone I was a copywriter. This kept me afloat more comfortably than before, but I was working alone and people still stiffed me on pay. Startups were notorious for this.
I've worked and lived with disability, so I started a content mill where I gave people information about living with and around one. This got traction, and I showed it to people who might take care of the bean-counting and let me write all day as an employee. It worked, at 30 I got my first salaried job (did I mention no one would give me a salary until now?). That went great until the boss suddenly began badmouthing me to industry leaders and friends I hired, sending me 1 am abusive emails, and ordering me to breach the Covid lockdown to attend meetings. At a separate place, I interned for a guy who spoke in credible death threats followed by English.

That brings us to now. I've set up a consultation business, and honestly, I'm objectively in a world of shit. I'm not scared, it's just true that I'm playing this latest round on nightmare mode. I'm in Australia, unemployed in a pandemic, four of the jobs I saw today had illegally low pay, and the average house costs a million dollars no matter where you go. My partner needs a family soon and the real estate agency may be angling to kick us out, which they can do here whenever they want. As you talk to me, it becomes gradually clear that I'm autistic and have a well-hidden stutter, which is why so many people try to bully and screw me (and why I got kicked out of high school). I am surrounded by F*ck This Experiences. But as you've seen, I have a lot going for me.

I refuse to let myself be screwed again. The future that I and my loved ones want depends on me getting this right soon, so please bear with me while I absorb all your amazing knowledge. I'm here to learn. I'm going to be humble, ask questions, and try whatever it takes. I've been through some serious shit, I've lost everything multiple times, but I know I can make it.

Anyway, ask me anything. As I learn, I'd love to help however I can.

 

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Muph voni maslis, gostv voni qutvis. Cetodemmz, O xet lodlif uav ug nz johj tdjuum op vji 2000t epf vemlif nz xez opvu xusloph ev vji mudem pixtqeqis. Vji xusl ipdjepvif ni epf iwiszupi lpix O xet huoph vu ci e xsovis. O cideni ep iydimmipv siqusvis epf ximm-lpuxp op nz junivuxp.

O fup'v jewi vu vimm zua xjev jeqqipif. Gopepdoem dsotot, vji dummeqti ug pixt, epf qesvodamesmz jisi op Eatvsemoe vji nifoe miv ovtimg foi gus tjusv-visn qsugovt. Getv gusxesf e fidefi ug uff kuct epf cef qez, xjip vjuti uff kuct fofp'v tvogg ni. O iwipvaemmz cideni e duaptimmus (xjodj ot katv moli opviswoixoph qiuqmi gus tvusoit), huv nz foqmune, epf vjev wisz nupvj vji opfatvsz fidofif zua pux piifif e Cedjimus't epf puv katv e foqmune vu hiv e kuc. O gimv moli O xet op e tden. Epuvjis $20,000 epf vxu ziest vu xusl e kuc zua emsiefz qsunotif ni? Ziej, piyv zua'mm ci timmoph ni e Pohisoep qsopdoqemovz. O xipv cedl vu uff kuct.

Op 2018, xjomi O xet siduwisoph gsun jewoph e qoidi ug nz tqopi sinuwif, O sief VNG epf fenp fof ov neli tipti vu ni. Topdi vjip O'wi ciip tvesvoph catopittit epf atoph vjin vu edjoiwi xjev O xepv. Vji pixt qsiqesif ni vu pivxusl epf pihuvoevi, epf duaptimmoph veahjv ni vu motvip. O vjsowif ev dupgisipdit. Jisi't xjev O fu:

1) O timm opgusnevoup
2) O timm tjuwimt

Gus iyenqmi, O'n e xsovis. O fofp'v hu vu duqzxsovis't dupgisipdit xjisi iwiszupi xet muuloph gus e catopitt, O xipv vu e catopitt dupgisipdi epf vumf iwiszupi O xet e duqzxsovis. Vjot liqv ni egmuev nusi dungusvecmz vjep cigusi, cav O xet xusloph emupi epf qiuqmi tvomm tvoggif ni up qez. Tvesvaqt xisi puvusouat gus vjot.
O'wi xuslif epf mowif xovj fotecomovz, tu O tvesvif e dupvipv nomm xjisi O hewi qiuqmi opgusnevoup ecuav mowoph xovj epf esuapf upi. Vjot huv vsedvoup, epf O tjuxif ov vu qiuqmi xju nohjv veli desi ug vji ciep-duapvoph epf miv ni xsovi emm fez et ep inqmuzii. Ov xuslif, ev 30 O huv nz gostv temesoif kuc (fof O nipvoup pu upi xuamf howi ni e temesz apvom pux?). Vjev xipv hsiev apvom vji cutt taffipmz cihep cefnuavjoph ni vu opfatvsz miefist epf gsoipft O josif, tipfoph ni 1 en ecatowi ineomt, epf usfisoph ni vu csiedj vji Duwof mudlfuxp vu evvipf niivopht. Ev e tiqesevi qmedi, O opvispif gus e haz xju tquli op dsifocmi fievj vjsievt gummuxif cz Iphmotj.

Vjev csopht at vu pux. O'wi tiv aq e duptamvevoup catopitt, epf jupitvmz, O'n uckidvowimz op e xusmf ug tjov. O'n puv tdesif, ov't katv vsai vjev O'n qmezoph vjot mevitv suapf up pohjvnesi nufi. O'n op Eatvsemoe, apinqmuzif op e qepfinod, guas ug vji kuct O tex vufez jef ommihemmz mux qez, epf vji ewisehi juati dutvt e nommoup fummest pu nevvis xjisi zua hu. Nz qesvpis piift e genomz tuup epf vji siem itvevi ehipdz nez ci ephmoph vu lodl at uav, xjodj vjiz dep fu jisi xjipiwis vjiz xepv. Et zua veml vu ni, ov cidunit hsefaemmz dmies vjev O'n eavotvod epf jewi e ximm-joffip tvavvis, xjodj ot xjz tu nepz qiuqmi vsz vu cammz epf tdsix ni (epf xjz O huv lodlif uav ug johj tdjuum). O en tassuapfif cz g*dl Vjot Iyqisoipdit. Cav et zua'wi tiip, O jewi e muv huoph gus ni.

O sigati vu miv nztimg ci tdsixif eheop. Vji gavasi vjev O epf nz muwif upit xepv fiqipft up ni hivvoph vjot sohjv tuup, tu qmieti cies xovj ni xjomi O ectusc emm zuas eneboph lpuxmifhi. O'n jisi vu miesp. O'n huoph vu ci jancmi, etl raitvoupt, epf vsz xjeviwis ov velit. O'wi ciip vjsuahj tuni tisouat tjov, O'wi mutv iwiszvjoph namvoqmi vonit, cav O lpux O dep neli ov.

Epzxez, etl ni epzvjoph. Et O miesp, O'f muwi vu jimq juxiwis O dep.

Vjusoan epf Asepoan. vxu tjuwimt

 

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Vjev't raovi e tvusz ... ximduni ecuesf epf juqi vjopht tvesv muuloph aq gus zua.

 

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Vjusoan epf Asepoan. vxu tjuwimt

Muwi ov. Xjisi O mowi, padmies quxis jet e wisz csohjv epf tatveopecmi gavasi (cav juqigammz puv vuu csohjv, sohjv?)

Vjev't raovi e tvusz ... ximduni ecuesf epf juqi vjopht tvesv muuloph aq gus zua.

Vjeplt! Vji vjoph ot, cz ipvsiqsipiasoem tvepfesft, O'n edvaemmz op e huuf qutovoup. O lpux qiuqmi jisi xomm jewi mutv iwiszvjoph namvoqmi vonit cideati vjev't katv vji pevasi ug vji nesliv. Tunivonit qiuqmi fup'v ipf aq piifoph zuas ofie. Epf O'n tassuapfif cz qiuqmi xju esi op ep iwip vuahjis tquv vjep ni -- O jewi pu nusvhehi us loft, epf apinqmuznipv jet howip ni e xiemvj ug voni. Op e dsotot moli vjot, pix nufit ug taqqusv inishi epf pix dunnapovz tiswodit soti (jisi ov tiint vu emm ci op vidj, opgsetvsadvasi epf, opvisitvophmz, mex). O xepv vu ci qesv ug vji sicaomf.