Exhausted and stressed to the point of just giving up…

This move is beginning to take its toll.

I want it so badly, my boss says he needs me over there so badly, but I just keep coming up against roadblock after roadblock after roadblock.

Fucking visas.

My fucking company.

They say they want me and only me (meaning they do not wish to hire a UK national to head the expansion, but may choose to do so to work under me at some point.) to work for them in the UK to offer support for our UK users.  However, because of our parent company - a bunch of pretentious NYC assholes, they are wanting to do it “under the table” so to speak. (WTH?) So it’s pretty much all on me to figure out.

UK work visas are basically out of the question because I would have to be seeking employment with or have been offered employment with a UK business. And that does not apply to my situation at all.

Sole Representative of an Overseas Firm… I truly think that this may work, however, it states that you cannot have an existing branch or subsidiary registered in the UK. Now, I do not know if we had to register in order to launch our website there and take payment for services rendered. I would assume we would have. So, it would depend on how the government defines “existing presence” as to whether or not I would be allowed. I have been told though that the UK government is really encouraging companies like mine to set up operations over there. In order to set up operations, we would have to have someone over there, doing said “setting up”. Oh, hello UK government, that would be me! Unless they choose to define a website as an existing presence and then I’m royally fucked.

I just don’t know what to do. I’m too worn out to wrap my mind around all of this right now. And don’t even get me started on the tax situation… Gun to temple with an itchy trigger finger…

And on top of that, I’ve been working 6 - 7 days a week this entire month (and will be for the foreseeable future) to get as much overtime as possible. It’s to the point I can barely see straight.

I could seriously use a hug and some nice words right about now.

The bright side? None of you lovely gents will be stuck having to marry me (though, I’ve appreciated all of your very tempting offers)! Yeah, you really dodged a bullet on that one. You can thank me later. :)