Hello friends and watchers.
I'm writing this because I'm in a rather precarious situation. It's nothing fun and nothing constructive for anyone but my own wellbeeing. So if you don't feel like taking part, you're welcome to stop reading whenever you want.
Since I left work last year for a couple of months of sick-leave, due to my then raging stress-dissorder, things has gone a bit out of hand. After that, I had two separate jobs to steady my income. It turned out to do the exact opposite.
Since 2016, I'm 18300 sek in debt to the swedish tax department, (That's about 2 251$, or 1907€ ) due to mishaps in the distribution of taxmoney between my two jobs, combined with poorly managed taxation of funds during my sick-leave.
I now have a little bit short of a month to cough up the cash unless I want to face serious consequences. That's the long and short of it. To be perfectly honest, I'm pretty scared.

Besides trying to speak to the Taxdepartment to ease my terms and extend my period of payment, I will do something I've never though I'd do.

I will ask for support.

As some of you already know, I'm a crafter and knifemaker. And I'm a strong believer of "earning your income" and have a really hard time asking anyone to help me economically. I have no hopes or expectations for anyone to donate, as most people here need their income just as much as I need mine. But anything would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime, I will do my darnest to make and sell knives for a sum of 20000 sek... which is far more than what I usually earn in a month, let alone a few days short of a month.. Tricky thing is of course that, like everyone else, I will need to be able to eat, support my farm, my animals and family. That's the main reason why I'm seeking help.
It will be a hard month. I will barely be able to spend time with my girlfriend and will have to work extra hours into the night to have just a slight hope to make it in time. I'm risking a burnout, but that's just how things are right now.

I will look into creating a Ko-Fi account, and breath life into my Patreon. I need to look into every nook and cranny to find whatever might fill in the gaps.

I will entrust my Paypal user email to this journal as well. If anyone feel like leaving a donation directly to my Paypal, here's the adress: joel.wennerholm[at]live.se

Thank you so much for reading this and thank you thousandfold if you decide to donate. Anything will be of help.
If you want and feel ok with it, please share this journal with your friends and watchers.

I wish you all the best, and thanks again.

//Joel Wennerholm