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backSunday 2nd February 2025
This time put my stuff in order demands more than just being focused.
We all slip. We all put in our feet. But not always as the same.
Even when I feel consistently tired, I never stopped to go forward. Even when a full time job offers me USD 800 down here in Argentina.
I don't plan to do so. But I don´t plan to crash and burn either. Now that my wife is -after long months- to improve from his back injury. We started to think together how to recover or at least make the try to escape from miserable salaries and chaos.
While the pro trump rampage won't stop and goes forward day by day with our own -don't laugh- I already suffer this banana country...- trump-like idiot, we are trying to avoid newspapers since they became toxic.
I closed our old small design agency doors for two main reasons: Even with money spend on google ads it wasn't working down here at all. No money = zero customers.
Even more if we consider that over 15.000 small businesses closed doors, and we will face a new energy cost + tax raise this year during the first year on office of the für... sorry the president in a year and a few months we became literally beyond poor.
That small design agency was performing nice even without a name we where closing a deal that ended up canceled on both ends in good terms with perspectives of more work to come because we were starting with app development. Cheaper because they were going to be shipped with node.js but at the very least at a very good price for a small business or entrepeneur going up with his/her work.
Yet we stopped. Why? because the work literally froze when the government changed to the actual one. Not a lie, not my imagination and honestly I only care about politics when a politician is a madman...
It stopped from month one. And became a struggle to find people willing to pay for our work.
We spend a shitty winter. I mean it. The energy costs raised over 400% so having small pockets we had polar waves and one of the coldest winters I remember barely using the heat. It was hell.
In order to avoid the same and stick to a monthly wage that leads nowhere when you reached 40's we simply decided to re-open doors outside this country. We will no longer work for Argentina. We feel deeply disappointed with this country and the nazi ideas that people embraced. it became something unbearable. we'll offer our services to the rest Spanish speaking countries but this one. I don't mind if if improves or not. I really don't. I'm just not willing to work with people that went on a witch hunt against disabled people, senior citizens, and people in vulnerability.
"How do you came out with that idea?" I didn't. On my case pain did. On my wife's case rage and disappointment did.
I recently has the chance to work on the visual concept of a small game that will probably be released for free or at a "pay what you want" mode.
During my first two days sketching my wife started to talk about the subject. So did I. "What do we plan to do more than subsist?"
And we decided to chop this country out as a poisonous root. I will not blame everyone on the country. Well almost. Because according to polls this attitude is backed up by 90 percent of them. Ouch. Sure, let me choose between a needle on a haystack...
It's an update on my end that will come with more of them -I hope that less grimm-
At least, I decided to get mi blog with my name on it's domain up and running again. Unfortunately I don't have time to make some corrections but I created an RSS feed that I will upload soon and a few improvements. Maybe I'm not talking about time but my patience with detailing and polishing? who knows.