>be me in 2022
>had a moderately successful business renting a kitchen from a pub, selling food to the punters
>pub gets sold, move to a different one
>goes horribly, make very little money, fight tooth and nail to make it work, work 100 hour weeks but it wont go
>end up in 1000's of debt to suppliers, rent arrears, loans ect.
>have to close business, live on one meal a day, spend christmas day alone in a mouldy room eating rice for christmas dinner
>spend the next few 6 months working in various shit chef jobs to pay the debt off
>move city, get offered to start another business by a pub owner
>food goes down extremely well, but pub owner scares off customers with his coke-addict mates, starts feuds with other business, steals money from the kitchen
>back on the 100 hour week trying to make everything work grind, feel like life is falling apart
>new years eve 2024 plan to throw myself infront of a train, stand on platform, have my last cigarette and beer with toes over the edge 5 mins before its scheduled
>train gets cancelled
>in tears on the train back, a complete mess
>next morning wake up with a sense of hope i've never had before, cut ties with pub owner and apply to help out at a homeless shelter
>spend 2 months cooking for homeless people, absolutely love it, meet lots of cool people and a qt girl
>out of nowhere get offered a contract to do banquets for a local conservative club
>qt girl makes me feel a way I haven't felt since a teenager, she brings me food and flowers, is extremely loving and goes out of her way to be nice
>conservative club banquets are great, make good money and only have to work a few days a week, plus have gained lots of useful contacts and a few gifts of whisky and a huge tv
>currently chilling with a cold beer and a ciggy, feet up, knowing im going to wake up happy tomorrow

years of absolute suffering lads but it came together! wagmi i believe in all of you if it can work out for a retard like me in can work out for you