I woke up this morning with such an ominous feeling and just knew something would happen.

Two hours later, I got a text from one of my clients saying that they would really talk to me if I had any time today based on how she was describing her project initially and what I was actually doing and that we weren’t gelling correctly.

So she calls me, we’re on the phone, and she says that she doesn’t think my skill sets are necessarily what she needs in her business right now. And I was like, OK, that’s fine. I mean, what else am I supposed to say?

At the same time, I work for this other virtual assistant company as a subcontractor, and I noticed that because it’s summertime—two of my other clients halved their hours with the company.

Here comes the panic because I have financial commitments, bills to pay, and a life to live. My nails need to be done, and I need to buy hair products,s and I also need to pay my credit cards, and if all of this money is being sucked away. How am I going to manage?

Cue the depression. I was feeling so low because this happened to me last year too. I realize that many clients and people generally like they go away for the summer, and their business is not that important right now.

After grieving the loss of the jobs, I told myself that it’s time to change because this cannot happen to me again in 2024, so I need to figure out how to make my business season-proof and like robust.

I need to figure out a way to ensure that even if they’re like slow month or so. It’s never thoroughly dried up, and also there are always extra funds in the kitty that I can access.

So now my thoughts are more towards restructuring the business and figuring out how to do so sustainably.