My startup is imploding. I mean pivoting.

My startup is imploding. I mean pivoting. Last week my older son took the SAT subject test for biology. He was supposed to take the AP test for biology but I didnt realize that you have to start registering a homeschooler for AP tests around the time a NYC parent would start registering their child for preschool: in the womb. So after he studied for two hours a day for a whole year, he didnt get to take the  test. The SAT subject test was my meager offering to him. An intellectual consolation prize. A party favor accidentally saved for the kid whose mom forgot to bring him to the party. I tell  him, Look, youll be in the special section for kids who are 8th grade and younger. He ignores me. I am trying to train him to be responsive. I tell him over and over again that its a rule that you have to say, oh, or hm, or thats nice. I look at him. He looks at me. He glares and says, Ok!! In the tone of voice a  small child would use to respond to an offer to go to Disneyland. I tell him, I bet the room will be full of kids with Aspergers. Who else takes these tests before high school? You can make friends. Mom. People with Aspergers dont like being friends with people with Aspergers. This is pretty true but I didnt know he knew this. So I ask him, Why do you think that? Because people with Aspergers are assholes. Hm. I say. We gather up his No. 2  pencils. I say, Wait. Am I an asshole? Well. You have three lawyers. Didnt you tell me most lawyers spend their lives defending assholes? Its hard to be your true self when you have teenage kids. All the BS you got away with when they were little, thats over. I remember when I used to switch the kids birthdays if they did not fall on convenient days for my work schedule. Then on my younger sons 3rd birthday my six-year-old son said, But its not his birthday today. And I remember thinking. Ugh. My life is over. He sees everything. Now he overhears me talking about lawyers and he does his own research to make his own recommendations. I am the parent, I tell him. In a tone of a voice that I hope sounds authoritative. The first lawyer  is to negotiate with my landlord. The lawyer  has pretty much served to piss off the landlord even more. The issue  is that I tore apart the kitchen because I  was so upset about mice, and in turn, the landlord tore up the lease because he was so upset about the kitchen. The result will be that I pay up and hope they end up liking me in the future. I think they read my  blog, so let me say right now that I am going to try really hard to follow the rules and be nice. The next lawyer is to negotiate with Matthew, who is the Farmer, but the Farmer seems like a term of endearment, so I cant really use that anymore, but I cant say Ex because my Ex is my Ex and I get along so well with my Ex that by now it probably is a  term of endearment. So I am just going to have to call him Matthew now. He texted to say that  he is putting all my stuff in one-half of  the garage and if I come to the farm he will call the police. There are a lot of problems with that text. But a big one is that I paid for everything thats in the house, so my stuff would not fit in just one-half of the garage. For the record, Matthew said that what sent him over the edge is that I said  he was abusive. I did not say that he is abusive. The  criminal lawyer I had to hire because of him called him abusive. But thats water under the bridge, because Ive moved on to a contracts lawyer, which is what you use when you lived with someone but were not married to them. And anyway, I am calling him abusive now, because Im in therapy with a domestic abuse counselor. The third lawyer is a securities lawyer. Those are pretty much the most expensive lawyers Ive ever heard of, and if you have to date a lawyer, which I do not recommend because most of them hate their jobs, you should date a securities lawyer because they charge  $1000/hr. So I did a transaction with a woman who has a dad who has oil money and he is funding a lawsuit that the securities lawyer says is absurd. But since I dont have enough money to get this lawyer to go to court and say that, Im  thinking maybe I can ask for a jury trial and hire a courtroom sketch artist and then blog traffic would blow up so fast that mid-trial I could hire the securities lawyer for a last-minute sprint to the finish. So what do three lawyers add up to? A pivot, of course. Because the only way to cope with this much legal drama is to think really hard about something else. And in my case, thinking about new ways for making money is my favorite thing to do. And I realized that I need to change what Im doing with Quistic. I have actually known this for a while. So Im going to start reading through sites that have been on my  get-ideas-here list for a while, like Detailed and McMansion Hell.   And Ill be testing new ideas, which means a bunch of the courses I offer at Quistic  will disappear.  This is your fair warning. Im doing a 50% off sale for the next week  so you can get the courses you want before they are gone. Use this code: lastchance When you purchase a course, youll have access forever. But you do have to buy them now. If you have questions, like, which course you should take, email me. And if you want to buy access to all the courses, pay $575 via this link.