May 9/€4.20. Phantom. Dance.
Being a solopreneur is ten percent doing the work and ninety percent constructing a paper trail that proves you are permitted to do the work.
— from the desk, with coffee ☕I spent four hours establishing whether I can deduct the train ticket to the architecture office. The ticket cost €4.20. The enquiry has cost me, conservatively, the mental equivalent of three years.
Conclusion: probably yes, with caveats, if I keep a Fahrtenbuch. A Fahrtenbuch is a mileage log. A mileage log is a German document that exists to make simple things feel like minor crimes.
Being a solopreneur, I have realised, is ten percent doing the work and ninety percent constructing a paper trail that proves you are permitted to do the work. Every receipt is a small act of self-defence.
Anja asked if I wanted dinner. I said I was still in the Fahrtenbuch question. She put a plate next to the laptop and left without comment. This is what fifteen years of marriage looks like at its most loving.
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41 people are also keeping receipts as acts of self-defence.