After some 40 years of (mostly) self-employment, I have no choice but to conclude that *the world is not set up for those entrepreneurs who have more than ONE business.*

What brings this to mind is a seemingly simple thing such as creating a Patreon account to garner support for a creative endeavor, having more than *one* PayPal account, or even something relatively simple like creating a LinkedIn profile and presence.

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The *default assumption* from the mainstream world is that when someone tries to create a *"second account"* they have *shady* business in mind, rather than *legitimate* business.

*"There is already an account associated with this name/address/social security number"* or whatever else pops up and tells you to *not* do that!

What's *ironic* about that is that you can create *100's* of twitter identities, one for each day of the year, and nobody gives a rat's hindquarters... but the moment what you're doing looks like an actual *business* you're assumed to be a scammer.

Of course, there *are* workarounds, but I'm strictly going by what happens if you just try to play completely above board.

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The reason I am writing these words is that I have spent most of today working on our dreaded income/business taxes, and I am once again saddled with the bookkeeping quagmire that is *"sorting"* *thousands* of transactions from a single PayPal account into their appropriate cost center streams. 

Yes, indeed, there are *options* to simplify this process... each of which typically *costs hundreds of dollars a year* to subscribe to.

Again, *faulty assumptions:* if you operate multiple businesses, you *"must"* be a multi-millionaire who can easily *afford* such things.

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In the case of something like Patreon, the *faulty assumption* is that a single person couldn't *possibly* be both an *artist,* AND a *writer,* AND something else... so you only get ONE shot.

It falls into the same family of *faulty assumptions* that goes with people who hear me talk about our complicated taxes and then ask *"Why don't you just have a professional tax preparer do your taxes? I do... it's only about $150!"* 

Precisely *because* our taxes are complicated, a professional tax preparer would charge *about $2,000* to do our taxes, thereby *erasing* a significant chunk of our already meager income.

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PayPal's *faulty assumption* is that I must be some kind of *scammer* or *money launderer* if I do more than one thing. Of course, I can *take payments* from as many different sources *(registered to me)* as I want... as long as I am content that *ALL* my invoices/receipts, regardless of what I just sold, all have the same heading. 

Maybe I should just rename everything I do *"My Glorious Financial Spaghetti Bowl, LLC"* and be done with it!

Writing is my catharsis, and this was a highly self-indulgent and whiny post... so I shall now take myself to bed! We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow!

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