Please take no offense. I'm seeking advice on whether ending a toxic relationship that made me HATE my job. I'll try to keep this as short as possible.
It all started 6 months ago. My friend joined a so called accelerator and pulled me in despite me being pursuing a degree AND working part-time. We tried to join with a silly idea that somehow got accepted and he started to go here almost every day. I didn't want to go, I was happy of taking care of the technical part. The idea basically failed but my friend was still allowed to follow the course. During this time he met a guy, let's call him John.
John is much older than us (we are both 23 and he's almost 50) and already has running business. He asked my friend and I if we could fix some bugs in his website. My friend accept on behalf of me and, I don't know how, we become partners with John. Fast forward, they have a lot of disagreements on how to run the business and John basically kick my friend out. Since John offered to pay me in order to fix the bugs and since there was still a lot of friction between my friend and I, I accepted the job, fixed the bugs and got paid.
This is where I should have stopped.
Instead John contacted me later to offer me a "partnership". He wanted to expand the website with new features and asked me to build the entire website. Stupidly, I accepted. John became an omnipresent figure in my life. He ordered me to go to his office every weekend (~30 miles away) and work from morning until night. This went on for almost two months. Why I didn't stopped? I don't know.
A month ago he started to pressure me during the week too. In order to complete milestones I did an entire week sleeping only 2 hours per night. I stopped my studies in order to keep up with the work. I always keep my phone in airplane mode or silenced because I always fear that he'll call or send a gazillion of messages. My SO is on the verge of breaking up with me because of the fact that I'm always busy writing code or going to the office and staying there until late night.
To the date, the website isn't still finished. I still need to implement 3 features for the mvp. Now, he's demanding that I pay over 1400$ for the monthly fees because I didn't manage to finish the website and he ran out of money.
In all honesty, this is killing me. I stopped to live. I don't want to be an entrepreneur, in these conditions. What should I do? Finish the job and hope that customers will pay and maybe earn something? Or throw three months of my life out of the window and stop talking to him?
Thank you for reading.
(And sorry for any error, english isn't my first language)
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