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> She could sell the house at 5% below market that should make the sale go through quickly. > Use the proceeds to rent a very small place and try

> She could sell the house at 5% below market that should make the sale go through quickly. > Use the proceeds to rent a very small place and try very hard to get another job. Cut down costs to the bone asap. Yeah, if we manage to sell the home, we're left with about 50% of its cost which is enough to buy a smaller place in this city or rent a much better place somewhere in Asia (for example) for years. With my mother nearing her 50, I really doubt she can find any decent job (she's a financial director [I dunno what they call this position] in the biggest company in the city). However, I've been thinking that she could learn something with my help and freelance. But I'm not sure if there's any job out there in the internets that can be taught in a short timespan. > If your mother has been working there for 20 years she should be entitled to some severance package. Never happens here, unfortunately. Employees aren't protected from the employer at all.

jacquesm 16y ago
Emigration to avoid legal troubles usually adds to the trouble, the scapegoat thing is troublesome but usually the best way to deal with that sort of thing is to go visit a lawyer first to see how actionable it really is.
- isthereawayout 16y ago
  Yep, legal issues are bad enough; however, I'm totally helpless here. Everything's connected in such a weird manner that it sounds like not even remotely possible. Let me just say that my mother's employer is genuinely interested in not letting her get into the trouble, because if he does, there's enough evidence for whole company, him included, to sink after her. However, either he's crazy, or he's an idiot, or he's got a plan to make everyone cannon fodder. Did I say that he, the company owner, is also a relative of ours? You can imagine how twisted the whole situation is.
fooandbarify 16y ago
However, I've been thinking that she could learn something with my help and freelance. But I'm not sure if there's any job out there in the internets that can be taught in a short timespan. That's a cool idea. On of the easiest that comes to mind would be chopping Photoshop files for Wordpress themes or HTML/CSS templates - it might seem somewhat daunting but if you gave her a starting point she would basically just have to cut and paste into the right parts a lot of the time. Even though there are tons of people already doing it I suspect that finding and partnering with a good designer would still be quite profitable. Depending on her English skills, another option would be getting into SEO - there's still a lot of room for growth in that market and the technical requirements can sometimes be fairly minimal. Copywriting might be an applicable related field, whether in her native language or by offering translation services from English to her native language (obviously depends on her English reading and what her native language is). she's a financial director [I dunno what they call this position] in the biggest company in the city A more industrious option might be to try leveraging your combined experience. There are endless opportunities for providing very basic and extremely niche enterprise apps which pay pretty nicely. She may have some ideas in this regard related to her job, either for an application that would make a common task easier or that would just compete with a complicated app. One of my favourite models is to compete with a complicated ancient piece of enterprise software by reducing the feature set and offering it for cheaper. The trick is to keep things extremely simple.
- volida 16y ago
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jacquesm 16y ago

Emigration to avoid legal troubles usually adds to the trouble, the scapegoat thing is troublesome but usually the best way to deal with that sort of thing is to go visit a lawyer first to see how actionable it really is.

isthereawayout 16y ago
Yep, legal issues are bad enough; however, I'm totally helpless here. Everything's connected in such a weird manner that it sounds like not even remotely possible. Let me just say that my mother's employer is genuinely interested in not letting her get into the trouble, because if he does, there's enough evidence for whole company, him included, to sink after her. However, either he's crazy, or he's an idiot, or he's got a plan to make everyone cannon fodder. Did I say that he, the company owner, is also a relative of ours? You can imagine how twisted the whole situation is.

fooandbarify 16y ago

However, I've been thinking that she could learn something with my help and freelance. But I'm not sure if there's any job out there in the internets that can be taught in a short timespan. That's a cool idea. On of the easiest that comes to mind would be chopping Photoshop files for Wordpress themes or HTML/CSS templates - it might seem somewhat daunting but if you gave her a starting point she would basically just have to cut and paste into the right parts a lot of the time. Even though there are tons of people already doing it I suspect that finding and partnering with a good designer would still be quite profitable. Depending on her English skills, another option would be getting into SEO - there's still a lot of room for growth in that market and the technical requirements can sometimes be fairly minimal. Copywriting might be an applicable related field, whether in her native language or by offering translation services from English to her native language (obviously depends on her English reading and what her native language is). she's a financial director [I dunno what they call this position] in the biggest company in the city A more industrious option might be to try leveraging your combined experience. There are endless opportunities for providing very basic and extremely niche enterprise apps which pay pretty nicely. She may have some ideas in this regard related to her job, either for an application that would make a common task easier or that would just compete with a complicated app. One of my favourite models is to compete with a complicated ancient piece of enterprise software by reducing the feature set and offering it for cheaper. The trick is to keep things extremely simple.

volida 16y ago
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