<prompt> Human: Sigh. Its been rough. After i graduated from grad school 2 years ago my so and i started having lots of financial issues. My husband has worked for his father in his plumbing business for years as I worked in education. My husbands construction business started going down and we were unable to payments on our house. My k-12 teaching salary wasnt enough to cover the mortgage, let alone classroom supplies I needed to buy to do my job. Started looking around and decided to follow his semi-retiring dad to a small rural town because it seemed to maybe be possible to run a small plumbing business there Lots of growth and minimal construction businesses. Because of the money issues my 780 credit went to 570 in two years of hardship. My husbands is worse. No bank would fund another mortgage so my parents ended up buying us a house we paid for the whole down with sale from other house and all payments. Were on a strick budget. Less than 400 per month for food, no health insurance, making minimal housing and student loan payment on time, only entertainment is our 40 internet.Now were in a new town with about 40 cost of living compared to previous. I work as a part time adjunct at the college and the wont allow me to work more than 27 hours a week, but I spend about 40 hours a week doing all of the responsibilities necessary. I teach very part time at a public school for after school programs 6 hoursweek , adult classes twice a week, and about 20 hours at a retail shop. At this point, Im only making about 60 of what we need to live. About 60 hours a week worked.This would be fine if my husband was making any money. He hasnt had a pay check for 6 months now and the previous 6 months was like pulling teeth to get any money. I would have to beg and scream at my husband to tell his father to pay him or at least borrow money so we didnt completely default on the house and loose our one opportunity to be ok. My new marrage has pretty much disintegrated into bouts of me crying hysterically about money and me cussingyelling about how much I hate his father. ...I dont even know why Im posting here. I know what I have to do. I have to get another job... maybe a night shift janitorial job...Sorry. I just needed to say it outloud, even if this is just the void of the internet. Ive almost lost hope. I dont know why Ive worked so fucking hard my whole life. Its fucking useless. EDIT: what do you all think about the primary excuse for him not being paid is that they are waiting for cash flow with in the buisness to be established. Ive never run a buisness so I may not be understanding what theyre refering to. Something about there being enough money for future expenses and projectsupply overhead. Is this the correct way to run it when employees arent getting paid?EDIT: Adjunct pay: about 600 month. Due to horrible pay schedule where I get paid per student about 75sem student, the more students the less I get paid, and over 10 students the pay increase stops. One of my classes has a population of 18, and the other two a population of 2 and 3 students. Im spending time trying to promote the program. Retail: 20 hoursweek 700month. Afterschool and adult classes: 300month. My expenses: house 750 student loans650 food400 utilities250 gas200 car insurance100 cell phone: 50Assistant: EDIT: what do you all think about the primary excuse for him not being paid is that they are waiting for cash flow with in the buisness to be established. Ive never run a buisness so I may not be understanding what theyre refering to. Something about there being enough money for future expenses and projectsupply overhead. Is this the correct way to run it when employees arent getting paid?Starting a business does mean that sometimes the owner has very little money for a while. You need to pay for stuff so that you can start working tools, cars, rent, etc, but the clients often are sparse in the beginning, and thus income is low. So, it happens to a lot of starting business that money is tight for a few months.However... 1. Normal startup businesses will need to pay their employees. Employees normally wont work long for you if you dont pay them. So even startup business will, from the first month, need to pay their employees. 2. This has been going on for a year now? Thats very long... Perhaps in that case, the business just isnt sound. Perhaps somehow, for some reason, the business cant get enough clients, or they arent charging enough, or they are spending too much. After a year or so, you would hope to reach some kind of status where you have enough income to cover your expenses. Human: The business relocated to new town 6 months ago. He hasnt been paid that whole time. The 2 years6 months before that was in another city. He was paid but sparingly.I honestly dont know what the hell is going on finacially. I would figure if they can bring in about 1000 dollars a day that should cover expenses, let alone salary. I really wonder if his dad is hiding a load of debt from the failed buisness in the previous town. This us a 40 year old business so I cant think that he doesnt know how to run oneThought: if my husband is inheriting the buisness in a few years, is it reasonable for him to take financial responsibility for the start ups lack of stability of the first year? I get the feeling from his dad that hes just there to help my husband get it going but my husband has never even even seen the books for the buisness. Im just so confused  <response>: His dad isnt hiding anything this business is failing and his dad is terrible with money... 