To continue with previous story, the second reason that catalyzed my decision to stop Pakai Server development is... Reality.
I am feeling stressed.
I have been facing a serious problem in my life right now. It is not just happened recently.
I live alone in a small apartment with cheap maintenance and mortgage loan. I bought another apartment before COVID-19 and rented out as an investment. The rental actually can cover the installment but I need to spend extra for the maintenance fee and wifi charge. The problem is with the tenant who paid the rental late every month. I want to discontinue the contract this July and he beg me to let him stay until September because he hasn't find a new house. I agreed. Then last 2 weeks he suddenly told me he found a house and will end the rent immediately. WTH. I already stopped the real estate agents to look for new tenants. How I could find new replacement in such a short period? Today is the last day and I am not having a new tenant. I am really worried I need to bear the installments for coming months.
But the real concern started at beginning of this year.
Since I quit from my job 5 years ago, I have put my bet on entrepreneurship. I have all-in into B4X because I believed I can create great products starting with my POS system. However, I think I really bad in business and I have failed.
I didn't have much savings actually but I have some financial commitment such as car installment, 2 apartments loan, medical and life insurance, internet plan and monthly expenses. I have minimized my expenses as much as I can. I didin't bring money back to my parents for years. My girlfriend come to find me 3 days a week. We have simple meals and most of the time I pay for the dinner and breakfast if we dine out. She cook for me on weekends so we can safe some money.
I was lucky that I get a freelance job a few years back during COVID-19. I think this is God's help that I can found a job for B4A, such a niche programming tool in my country. Almost no one heard about this tool but a town district government is using a mobile app for the enforcement officers to issue compound and traffic fines, car towing and residents against some local act. I have been supporting a software vendor providing bug fixes, maintenance for the mobile part while they support the backend.
A few years ago, due to a shift in political landscape, the administration of the district council also changed. The organization has restructured from the director to person in charge of IT department. The contract between the vendor and the council has been in discussion for months and I think it is not going to continued.
My last 3 months maintenance job for last year has ended and I never had a single job since then. The vendor keep delaying my payment until I said I am going for magistrate to take action for the pending payment then they start paying me by installment.
Last month I planned to take a delivery job with Lalamove app.
I have finished all my savings and sell out my only savings fund with insurance agent and I get back around MYR1300. Then I received another MYR2400 for the last pending balance from the vendor so I decided to postpone the delivery job for 1 more month. If things are not changing, I will take the delivery job next month.
So I was thinking that if I take the delivery job, I don't have much time sitting in front of my laptop to work on B4X projects. That is why I decided to stop Pakai Server or other development for the time being.
