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I’m 65, Broke, and Still Dreaming
When you have no savings left, no job prospects, and no one but yourself to believe in — what do you do? You keep going.
6 AM. My Day Begins.
A glance at the day’s news, a rapid scroll through X posts.
And here I am, facing Google with the thought that has been tormenting me for months and that is becoming more and more pressing every day.
What strategy should I adopt to make up for my dwindling earnings as an online Italian tutor?
I’m an underdog. I’m 65 years old.
I have no qualifications to use in other fields.
No possibility of raising my lesson prices.
No chance of accepting new students due to recent policies of the site I work with, which require students to subscribe to a monthly plan based on a set number of hours. If they don’t use them, they can only carry over a quarter of those hours to the next month, losing the rest.
No possibility of joining other platforms due to a lack of the required qualifications.
I research online, watch YouTube videos, and consult various AI tools in search of ideas.
