/g/ - Anon moves back to his hometown

>be me
>6 months since last thread (>>/blog/quit-my-job-at-40)
>prior update: quit job of 10 years, got 6 months paid leave, one interview scheduled

>may happens
>paid leave ends
>a-kassa takes over same week
>relationship of 5 years ends same month
>not dramatic
>just turned into friendship wearing loves clothes
>also moved out same month
>life cleared its entire backlog in one sprint

>sold my horses too
>ardennes and a pony, inseparable since foals
>every buyer: "we only want the big one"
>the pony has feelings you monsters
>finally found a family who took BOTH
>loaded them on the truck myself
>cried in the driveway like a legend
>they live 4 hours north now
>keep calculating if a visit is worth it
>math keeps losing to carrots

>moved back to my hometown
>same neighborhood i grew up in
>the meadow i played on as a kid is a road now
>a full road
>with houses on it
>my childhood memories are double exposed now
>främmande_hem.jpg

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>>91387201

>economy status
>lead technician salary to government benefits
>every purchase now reviewed by a committee inside my head
>the committee rarely approves anything

>job hunt status
>interviews actually going okay for once
>calculator role in manufacturing (own the margins)
>sccm role
>product owner at ancient swedish vehicle software company
>dev jobs applied for: 0
>still 0
>the voice still clocks in every morning
>somebody around here has to

>meanwhile horsemate just keeps running
>stable user count, +/- 20 a month
>revenue: exactly zero
>everything goes back into hosting
>optimized hard for vercel/supabase free tiers early on
>free tiers are a loan not a gift
>horsemate now pays rent and earns nothing
>profitability parity with a kids lemonade stand

>oh and a competitor launched after me
>copied most of what i built
>has an "X vs Horsemate" comparison page
>i understand the seo play completely
>it still feels cheap
>i never built one
>this hill is pointless
>this hill is mine

>one good thing
>january post ended with "my dms are open"
>wrote it as a fire exit, never expected use
>someone actually walked through it
>talked about imposter syndrome for hours
>solved nothing
>"same, exactly the same" removed weight anyway
>he showed me his project, actually pretty cool
>told him it counts
>easiest validation ive ever handed out
>still waiting for someone to say it to me

>mfw 40, single apartment, no horses, back where i started
>mfw its fine
>mostly

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>>91387201
>buyers kept rejecting the pony

pony did nothing wrong
their loss anon
hope the new family appreciates him

>>91387201
>moved back to hometown
>childhood meadow is a road now

wait till you run into your old teacher at the grocery store and she says "my how youve grown"
you havent grown
youre 40 and buying discount pasta
small towns are memory prisons anon

>>91387201
>dev jobs applied for: 0

ANON
ITS BEEN SIX MONTHS
YOU RUN A SAAS WITH USERS
APPLY FOR THE DEV JOB
this is the sequel thread and youre doing the SAME BIT

>>91387214
>support doesnt require a solution
>just another person in the room

unironically screenshotting this
thanks anon

>>91387201
>competitor copied my product
>made a comparison page against me

anon that means you won
you only get cloned when the original worked
also the comparison page is free marketing
every visitor learns horsemate existed first

>>91387201

38 here, still treading water at a job i tolerate
read your last thread when it dropped
honestly thought id check in to laugh
instead i checked in to feel less alone

we're all gonna make it anon

>>91387201

someone already crossposted this entire saga to a reddit thread btw
the normies are being supportive to anon
giving him life advice and everything
disgusting behavior in there
read it anyway