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Ukrainian businesswoman Svitlana Pavletska feels like a failure. She candidly wrote about the reasons for this state and her difficult financial situation on Instagram on 20 October.
"Recently Dmitro and I were sitting at home, drinking coffee, and I told him, 'You know, I think I've already reached my prime and now I'm only on the decline.' I've never had a worse financial year than this. And it's not just that you're simply earning less. It's when you're consuming everything you earned in previous years to feed yourself and your businesses, and it's still not working out, she shared. 'Because you can't predict which building a rocket will hit, how many alerts there will be, and how many stores you'll have to close. And at times like that it doesn't matter how many years you were successful, whether you were on the cover of Forbes, or received awards in Ukraine, Europe, and the States. You still feel like a failure.'"
The wife of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, explained that her business hasn't been working for a long time.
"You try, you fall, you get up, you fall again. And you think: 'Maybe it's time to just lie down and stay there? How long can this go on? When you work for yourself your whole life, live off dividends from your businesses, and they suddenly are just surviving.' And not because of your managerial mistakes, but because of the war. And you can't close them because people work there, their families depend on you. But at some point one person simply runs out of strength," she complained.
Pavletska added that she even had the idea of taking a salaried job.
"I have more than 20 years of experience, I've worked in high-level positions, managed large teams. But who would actually hire me? she asked. 'Maybe earn money from Instagram ads? I have a great community, I'm ready to collaborate with brands. But when you're almost 43, you have a child, a husband, businesses and a ton of responsibility, you realize you'll have to start from scratch again.'"
The businesswoman emphasized that many businesses find themselves in this situation.
"I want to believe that we'll all cope. Something will come of us, we'll end up somewhere, it'll work out somehow. And more than anything I want that in 10 years I'll again be sitting with Dmitro, drinking coffee and say, 'You know, now is my true prime. That was great too, but it only really got great now.' I don't know what needs to be done for that to happen. It seems there's nothing left but to go to church and light a candle. And keep fucking grinding on,' she concluded.
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