Somehow how difficult life is comes and goes in waves. Right now it’s more tough fo me again while I’m approaching 50.

My mother is very sick and the doctors are running out of options, my father got also a terrible diagnosis, the 24h help who works at their home is overwhelmed and is thinking of leaving while me and my siblings are living ver far away and try to deal with all this remotely.

One of my best friends is going though a divorce and is totally destroyed and down and feels alone, its genuinely difficult to get him to see any light at the end of the tunel. Another good friend is after divorce now his ex doesn’t let him to see his children and he is panicking and asking for help and advise because I’m also friends with his ex.

And while I got promoted at work it as always resulted in more responsibility and no financial gain and when I had a meeting with my boss he understands my situation but there is no money, we re failing to secure a client and the project will need to let a lot of people go. Theoretically I would be safe because of the extremely strong workers protection in South Korea but that workers protection is also the reason why they started the process of dissolving the Korean legal entity so independent of how good I work I probably will be out of a job before the end of the year. My problem is that I don’t speak Korean and all the jobs here require business level of Korean, not sure how I will be able to find a new job.

Oh and in the other project I’m leading which has a customer and makes money three month ago one of the two devs was trying to leave but didn’t get the other job and yesterday the other resigned and will be gone in two weeks and takes a lot of knowledge with him even if we have been trying to document as much as possible all the time. And it’s in my to come up with a solution for that.

But not all is bad, we are buying our first house and will move in in August. My wife is the loveliest person I could wish for, our children are both healthy and our daughter improved in school imensly during the last school year.

How is your guyses life going? Is it also a constant up and down?