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Sometimes, a goal simply seems to be too big to handle.
When you’re a do-it-yourselfer like me, it’s challenging to delegate work. The mantra “if it’s to be, it’s up to me” has been pounded into my mind from a very early age. Yes, that’s a good thing, but it has its detriments as well. For one, I have never learned to be a team player. And being a team player is extremely important, especially when embarking on big, hairy, scary projects like this one.
I have reached out to some immigration law firms before, but they have largely ignored my missives. And while I want to move to Europe, I also want to do it the Right Way. Being deported back to South Africa is not my idea of massive success.
As if going it alone in a country miles away from where I was born isn’t daunting enough, I had to have the goal to buy and fix up a rescue property, and that in a war-torn country where missiles are flying as we speak! Fun. But then you have to add to that that the alphabet is nothing like the one that I am using here, the words are new and I know absolutely nobody there who can help me. (Well, I know a few somebodies, but they are mostly journalists!)
And it seems like the almost-free properties are running through my fingers like sand.
This morning, I decided to browse the web once more and came across a fancy law firm in Kyiv. They do mostly corporate work, but also personal work for people who have serious money. I didn’t think I qualified, but I reached out to them regardless and wrote them my elevator pitch on WhatsApp (Always have an elevator pitch, boys and girls! You never know when it will come in handy!).
A few minutes later, I got a reply. No, they can’t help me, but I should send that same elevator pitch to another number. I did. He answered. And we have a solution!
Remember I said that I don’t want to work for a big bureaucracy ever again? Oh, I didn’t say? Well, I’m saying it now! I don’t want to work for a big bureaucracy ever again!
But…
For me to have a legal presence in Ukraine, I shall need to be employed, as I don’t have the money to be an investor, and don’t have relatives there. I also don’t want to marry for citizenship. That only works out well in movies.
What we’re going to do is incorporate my idea. So “Agterplaas Boerdery” is going to become a business in Ukraine, with me as both its sole stockholder and only employee. That way, every legal aspect will be satisfied, taxes will still be paid and I can stay in the country as long as my employment lasts. Neat!
I’ll have to wait for two things to happen, though. The first one is for the Ukrainian army to finally chase the orc horde back over the border into Russia and the other is for my passive income to pick up. The beauty of buying a rescue property is that it frees up a lot of cash for other projects, too. And the other projects involve a lot of vlogging and blogging and editing video material. Some people talk about podcasting, too, but I’m not really sure if I want to go that route. I am not too fond of my own voice. It sounds as if I have run a marathon.
While I am waiting, I guess it’s a good time to improve my Ukrainian, too! And I need to work on the foundational documents for the new company, too. Not as complicated as a formal business plan, but still not a simple undertaking. I shall also have to do a lot more studying. Ukraine is a cold place. Not all the things that I have learned so far will be applicable in that climate. And not all of the new traditions that I may encounter will be bad, either!
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