It may have been the worst thing to happen to me all year. My boss told me that he wouldn’t sponsor my visa anymore. This put me in a panic because I had no idea how to stay here under that circumstance.
I spent a week freaking out. Then I found a lawyer (actually I found 4 and 3 weren’t very helpful, but the last one was, and was recommended to me by a fellow Hivester). I had a consultation and figured out that it should be possible to sponsor myself. All I have to do is prove my income and that I pay taxes. Easier said than done.
So the last two weeks I’ve been going over past payments, making invoices, searching for new students, and drafting a contract to prove that my students are actually paying me, and gathering some tax information to prove I’m paying taxes, and filling out the application.
Thanks to my boss being a bit of a dick, I finally registered as a freelancer, which should allow me to sponsor myself forevermore! Thanks to him, I learned how to do bookkeeping to make my taxes easier. Thanks to him I figured out the whole visa process without any assistance. Thanks to him, by this time next year, I’ll likely be able to expand my freelance work into a full fledged business with employees.
Once I get this application process out of the way and receive my visa, I can get back to creative stuff, improving my classes, and getting more involved in on boarding new members to have through weekly parties on Discord and activity on YouTube.
So once again, the bullshit was a blessing in disguise. Last time he got angry about nothing and decided to take out his mood swings on me, he nearly fired me but instead decided to cut my hours down to 15 hours a week instead of upping them to full time, which worked out perfectly. This time his decision not to sponsor me should have the same kind of positive effect.
And here I was freaking out.
I’ll still need to find a few more students to sponsor my visa without the part time work at the school but Now that I know how to do everything by myself, I can stop stressing about it and focus all my energy on the classes themselves and my other pursuits.
This is damn good news. Not getting too excited yet. I gotta collect the contract and print out a bunch more invoices and head to immigration next week. I’ll have a big celebration when I have my new visa in my hands.
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Funny enough, I doubt your boss would be able to do very well on his own in your situation. It's your adaptability got you off the hook and left you in an ever firmer, more fluid position than you were before, and you're even free from the burden of taking his crap, hahaha. Good riddance!
I went through a similar situation last year with the people at the news site I used to translate for. The term "boss" is no longer in my radar, and never will be again. I'm happy for you! Blessings, my friend!
I’m quite sure that his near inability to handle his own position as boss is why he dislikes me. He sees me as happier and more capable than himself despite the fact that he has power over me and he hates that.
Thanks for the talk man
The existential threat to something critical is the entirety of what power trippers do (can come in various forms but the underlying thing is always exactly the same) and just like you did initially, people usually fall for it and are so blinded by panic that they will do everything they can and give up everything to keep desperately clinging to whatever the critical thing is. If more people did what you did (calmed down and took or created other options) everything would destabilise and reorient that much quicker XD
Good luck shuffling through beaurocracy, looks like you've got a pretty good handle on things :)
I think you hit the nail on the head. Some people who feel weak want to make others feel weak because it's a shortcut to feeling self empowered, except it's hollow and unfulfilling.
Seems I’m not out of quicksand just yet though
Beaurocracy is just giant quicksand so you won't be til you're back to minimal dealings XD but you'll get there :)
Ah man, I absolutely love how seemingly shitty situations are blessings in disguise!!! There's always growth in discomfort.. amazing how this has turned out for you!!
It's not over yet....having some new problems but you know, it's all good
Seems like he gave you a good kick behind the butt by throwing you into the deep. Everything happens with a reason. Glad you managed to level up once again.
Onward and upward ( with some downward movement - for the necessary contrast - in between ), just like Bitcoin in the long term.
I'm already in the deepend, he likes to hold my head under and make sure I can hold my breath long enough
Everything will be gating to all right sir, have some faith.
Every thing which happens in our life has a purpose.
Thank you friend, I'm figuring it out step by step
sure you will do that sir.
Hope things work out for you !
Ahhh I'm doing my best
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