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- Vent incoming. I have tried to keep it to myself so people don't have to worry about me, but now that things are getting out of hand, I have to get it out of my system.
- But to sum it up:
- -On the bright side, my income from my day job side plus my art side are more than enough to sustain myself. No problems here.
- -As for my day job, my company's online store sales have been steadily increasing lately, but it's still only barely able to keep up with the operating costs. Rough, but manageable in due time.
- -Ever since I have been living alone away from my parents' house, my dad has always been telling me, my mom, and my sister that things were fine on their end so I wouldn't have to worry about them. So far so good.
- -Or at least I thought so. Turns out my dad had been keeping to himself how bad things were going back on their household, financially speaking. He was supposed to be providing for my sister and my mother, but the company he runs is in shambles because he was too stubborn and didn't want to adapt to the post-covid world and refused to switch to running an online store.
- -Anyway, my dad has also been really bad at managing the household's finances due to old age and his degrading mental state, and it was only when he was close to breaking that he decided to tell us what he had been shouldering.
- -My dad's company has been in the red for months, and has basically been scraping by from selling company's assets. And now my father's company has almost no assets left. We're considering merging his company with mine to make accounting/administration easier while lowering operating costs but we havent decided on it yet since there's still too many unknowns.
- -My sister still have two more years of college expenses to go through until she can graduate and start helping too once she becomes a doctor.
- -My mom is currently in China to resolve several disputes regarding the inheritance from my late grandfather who has passed away this year. The inheritance would help greatly with buying time, but it will be a long process and my mom won't be able to come back help taking care of the household until late June.
- -So now that it's uncertain for how long my parents will be able to keep up with their living costs, we'll have to sell the apartment I'm currently living in and I'll have to go back to living with my parents, essentially making it feel like everything I've been working up towards to has been pointless.
- -Things were never this bad for my family my entire life, but this is a whole new low nobody except my dad saw it coming, and yet he just gave up, leaving me no choice but to clean after his mistakes at my own expense, both in time and money.
- -Selling the apartment would certainly buy some time and hopefully my company's sales will be able to do well enough for me to leave it on autopilot in the future, but the next coming months are going to be a mess to navigate through since salvaging my dad's company will be a monumental task, and balacing it all with my art hustle will be very rough.
- -And above all, I'm just drained from having to deal with all of this, attempting to salvage my dad's failing company and dealing with his degrading mental state while at home...
- -... All while I'm still in the process of figuring out how to increase my own monthly income to pick up the slack from my parents and attempting to come up with ways to save my family from the mess they're in. Had my dad been more transparent all this could have been avoided by now somehow.
- While I can guarantee my own safety, it's meaningless if my sister and my parents don't make it. I love my parents and my sister and I only want the best for them, and for that I'll need more help as there's only so much I can do alone.
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