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Has anyone else had issues with refund requests at Firstbase.io? We recently purchased a $399 package, realized it was a mistake and requested a cancellation promptly. It took them a month to process cancellation, however without a refund. Today we received e-mail that they do not issue refunds because it goes against their ToS which says:

• We are not able to process a refund once the company formation process is complete. • We are not able to process a refund while any government agency (e.g., Secretary of State, IRS, or other agency) is reviewing the documents. • We are not able to process a refund if you are not satisfied with the services provided outside of our website (e.g., by third-party service providers such as Agent or Mailroom).

They highlighted the last bullet point as a reason of not being able to refund, however as we request cancellation immediately after making a purchase, nothing was yet put in motion except agent filing change (which I assume is automatic by the system) and was cited as $10 on their website.

I've been contracting for over 8-9 years now and while I had longer term contracts I also have lots of short-term (1-3 months) contracts. Last 2 years I almost exclusively had short term contracts which overlapped too.

Most of the jobs were similar (e.g. Python, Flask, scraping), however I had few jobs where I did other stuff (C#, embedded, windows desktop, etc).

If I write down summary of each job position in my resume, I think it would be too much (would take 2 pages to write it all down). How should I summarize all this, so it doesnt take much space and at the same time shows the variety of tech stacks I've used and came in touch with.

I was thinking to have a general resume which I would tailor to specific company needs, where I would remove/add job positions which are more relevant to what the company is looking for.

A bit of backstory,

due to generally bad financial situation in Serbia, I started working as a fulltime remote programmer when I was 20 years old for one startup in EU, so I could support myself through the college. Startup didnt work out and eventually ceased after ~2 years. Shortly before that I started working short-time freelance jobs over Freelancer/Elance. This worked out very well (as much as it possible over those types of sites) and I opened my own IT consultancy company few months after.

Few months ago, since I was fully working remotely, I decided to start traveling. I dropped out from college with one class left, which I've been dragging for few last years, and I'm currently located in Thailand. I am 25 years old now. I have several clients that I charge 50-100$/hour, however this can change overnight and I can drop to zero income. I have enough money buffered up to support myself for the next few years.

Now the main reason why am I seeking for advice from HN crowd - I do my work in Delphi. I'm currently limited with the tech that has 0.01% market share and I've realized that I would never progress further in a professional sense if I don't change this and would get stuck forever with mediocre job opportunities. Also I want to get off the freelancer/elance type of sites. There are dozens of different techs that I can choose to learn and all of them are viable. Most appealing to me is to either get proficient in C++ and eventually in C# and work as a developer, or jump into web sphere (node/angular/whatever) and do some contracting or give it a shot to make some lifestyle business which can generate me some passive income.

I am honestly kinda lost and scared by all of this, and probably overthinking a bit, but I'm not really sure where to head at. I've been stuck with Delphi for years, and now I need to change that.

Have you guys been there, and do you have any advices?