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So I worked or worked as a digital product manager for the last eight plus years, just within like the tech industry.

Unfortunately, in beginning of March, our company did a bunch of layoffs, and I was a part of that cut.

And so as of March, I have been unemployed looking for work.

And in the meantime, we've been living off of our savings.

We don't have any sort of big payments like car payments or anything like that.

Aren't you freelancing?

If you're a digital project manager, you ought to be covered up in freelance work.

Um, it, that has not been the case for me.

I've, I've been, I've been applying, doing my best to find work, but it

just hasn't been, it just hasn't been, it just hasn't been working out for me to, to, to, I mean,

how are your buddies that are freelancing getting work as a freelance? I'm not talking about a new job.

I'm talking about just freelancing. Right. So I, my specialty is a product management. So I helped companies develop software and scale some of their products. So usually it's not necessarily freelance. It would be, you know, anywhere from like a year plus a gig to get those. So there are very few short-term freelance gigs for product management that I've been able to come across. Okay. I wouldn't doubt that. That does. We've got because we've got digital project managers on our team here, and I know what they do. So I'm not arguing that point. So, yeah, you're right. It's not like your, you know, a short-term project where you're writing code or something because that's not what you do. Yeah. All right. Okay. So on to your question. I got your picture. You're struggling, finding work. I got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So in the meantime, as mentioned, we've been living off of savings in Canada, we have things like employment

insurance here, but I've been also helping do random jobs for folks like house pressure

washing, floating dock installations, and so forth.

Good for you.

Kind of keep me going.

Now, there is this gentleman that I came across and I've been helping him with

floating dock installations. He is 74 years old. He's been running a business for 16 years now,

and he is looking to retire and sell that business. So I thought it might be a good idea for me

to look into acquiring that business.

I've done several dock installations, like it's not necessarily rocket science.

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