My business is a lonely job.
I have a limited company with one employee (me) and myself and my wife are the shareholders. We’re financially stable but don’t have lots of extra cash.
Most of my time, since the end of 2022 has been working on Content Notify – my second WordPress plugin, which I started development in Spring 2020. I genuinely enjoy writing code for it and it’s great to work on something for yourself that you can sell but… you also have to market it and sell it to people, and deal with support, and when those things are tough, you have absolutely no one to talk to about it.
No one to chat with, no one to bounce ideas off of, no one to help break up your day with general chit-chat in the kitchen/diner/water cooler. And that can be really tough sometimes, especially when client work is slow and you don’t have enough cash to pay for more help.
I’ve tried social media (Mastodon, Instagram), joining various Slacks (I’m a member of Post Status), attemping to get into a mastermind group, walking around more in my day-to-day life, but nothing has ever come close to working in a team, or with other people, on a daily basis, in a good place. Most of the methods I’ve tried actually make the situation feel worse.
There are no coworking spaces near me. There are no local work-chat-esque coffee groups, or meet-ups for solo business owners. There are no WordPress Meetups near me or WordCamps on at the moment either.
What do you do when you want to chat about business or shoot the breeze and you have no one to talk to on a daily basis?
If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them ❤️