Probably HN is the wrong venue to get sympathy. Here everyone is constantly giving away extremely valuable information for free. Information that is verifiably

Probably HN is the wrong venue to get sympathy. Here everyone is constantly giving away extremely valuable information for free. Information that is verifiably valuable as opposed to parental advice that you can't check the value of very easily People around here (and indeed in most of the internet) are paid for their information in attention and kudos. Your information would need to be almost unique and worth >£1000k for you to be able to sell it for money in todays attention starved market.