I am prepping. While I can't yet fully evacuate, I can build relationships in CR and build experience in CR so that when the time comes I am not an esltard with no contacts and a suitcase in the refugee caravan.

Additionally, while it is possible now to obtain residency relatively easily, in the future that may change.

Also curiosity - what does it take to get residency somewhere, in fact?

The bigger confusion is why do you need temporary residency to not live in Costa Rica?

I hold the opposite view. As kid gets older, as wife exits law school and gets job, as the price of Bitcoin increases, I will have more time.

The above says you think your current problems are really something that *happened* to you, none of your own making nor anything to do with your approach, it's just this and then that, gotta wait a few more months and a few more years and all will sort itself out.

I'll say the obvious so it's at least said clearly - nothing will really sort itself out, it rarely (if ever) does and there's a very good reason why. After all that passive wait, what you will have is less resources and otherwise simply an older -and more entrenched- version of the very same problems. Because the cause of the problems doesn't vanish and has nothing to do with either the price of Bitcoin or the age of your daughter or even the requests of your wife or whatever else you can come up with specifically at this moment.

For your option 1, you are essentially suggesting to work for your "client", which perhaps fits your existing relationship anyway since the way you say you have/had to be focused on them sounds more like being their employee rather than anything else. Why don't you actually get your own clients? I still don't get this part.

Option 2 doesn't really make any sense that I can see. At best I could see it perhaps as a sort of mitigation but it's more of a "keeping the pretense up" and as such it's not even worth a discussion.

Note though that the trouble is deeper than "the time available" and by the looks of it you are digging your way further into it, even avoiding any way out of it.

At this stage the only thing I can suggest is to go and talk to BingoBoingo, maybe see if you can write an article for Qntra in those 6 hours per week.

I obtained temporary residency status, which is a step towards obtaining permanent residency, after two years. I can't yet move to CR. I need to wait until my wife gets out of law school, which will be in 1.5 years.

> and in all likelihood, as time passes, even that will be increasingly squeezed out

I hold the opposite view. As kid gets older, as wife exits law school and gets job, as the price of Bitcoin increases, I will have more time.

I am primarily owned by dependapotomus support. This will be over in 2 years. At the moment I can't think of a better approach than waiting law school out, in terms of the outcome of a divorce. Although, I should talk to a lawyer about that, which I haven't yet done.

I had the impression you were moving to CR or somewhere else - didn't that work out or what's the idea/status with that?

Thanks for the good wishes.

Regarding the other proposal, in which I would attempt to tackle the sales aspect of consulting, I would be after guidance in improving my communication skills.

The third proposal was a way for me to start contributing immediately, however little, without waiting until my current contract is over. What I would be after in that case is exactly the same as in the first proposal above. If it worked out, I could return to it when I needed to take up another contract.

The core of it as it reads above is that you are quite fully owned by non-tmsr stuff of all descriptions. And even when/if you take some sort of break you go on some sort of detached man-aloning by the sounds of it, as far away as possible from meaningful involvement and commitment so I can't tell why/what you are after from #o as such.

Drop by one of those days in #o for a chat, there's no better substitute for that to figure out the whole situation really.

When MP says the wife "begs for some checks" he means checks as in a check to her stupid behavior. Quite the opposite of a check as in sending her cash, lol.

I think your prediction of diana_coman's response will be right, 6 horas por semana no es nada. Maybe until you can free up time, you can focus on one language (Chinese or Spanish) and add the time you spent for the other for work in #o.

Cheers, and good luck figuring out your schedule.