BPH
Master Don Juan
This post will probably be equal parts self-reflection, and asking for advice.
I made this thread years ago: https://www.sosuave.net/forum/threa...o-become-wealthy-working-for-yourself.264520/
And it's unfortunately depressing that I'm really not in a better position than when I started it; I'll be turning 30 at the end of April and I'm still living in my parent's house working the same part-time job at the medical marijuana clinic making the same $22.50/hour.
Every plan or goal I really poured myself into turned to s*** in one way or another. You'd think I'd have money saved up after all this time, but the expenses of trying to make each of those ideas work, coupled with intermittent stuff like having to fix car issues, and I'm really in the same spot as when I started.
And now I'm here, without a plan...
Some of the ideas I have include working with a guy I met through HU that does contract work for business startups, I help him compile his outreach lists and he agrees to cut me in on any that close, though so far none have closed and only 2 have scheduled calls...
I've always been big into natural fitness and was considering trying to see if my followers were interested in having me train them via an app. Figure if there's interest I could do free trials for those individuals and use their results to offer paid services...
My mom talks to my brother and I, knowing that we're both disgruntled with our current financial situations. She thinks we should just up and go somewhere without a plan and make it work. That seems more romantic than practical...
And I keep coming back to the idea of learning futures or the stock market...one of the common denominators of these failed ventures is that I've tried to do things that rely on other people in some way; dropshipping depended on Chinese distribution, modeling depended on being vaccinated, the ERC depends on the IRS, etc. Stocks would just depend on me, and my ability to create a system. Problem with that is that it takes considerable time and skill to do that, and I feel like I've already taken too much time...
I don't know, maybe I could stream? I'm good at a lot of video games and think I'd be entertaining, but building an audience would also take a considerable time and money investment to create a working setup.
Either way, if anybody reads this and has any insight on what they think I should do, I'd love to hear it. I've done all these things because I hate working the job I have now under my prick of a boss, and I've worked in corporate environments as a mortgage lender and came to the conclusion that I'd want to find a way to become wealthy where I'm not at somebody's beck and call.
Hope I'll have some thoughts to read from you all, thanks for tuning in to my rant.
I made this thread years ago: https://www.sosuave.net/forum/threa...o-become-wealthy-working-for-yourself.264520/
And it's unfortunately depressing that I'm really not in a better position than when I started it; I'll be turning 30 at the end of April and I'm still living in my parent's house working the same part-time job at the medical marijuana clinic making the same $22.50/hour.
Every plan or goal I really poured myself into turned to s*** in one way or another. You'd think I'd have money saved up after all this time, but the expenses of trying to make each of those ideas work, coupled with intermittent stuff like having to fix car issues, and I'm really in the same spot as when I started.
- Facebook ads didn't work out because I couldn't get businesses to opt into a free trial to build testimonials...only getting 1 client who agreed to pay me on a per lead basis, rather than on retainer, and he wasn't able to afford me for long.
- Shopify dropshipping didn't work out because as soon as I started seeing success COVID came around and shut down distribution out of China.
- Modeling/acting didn't work out for similar reasons because as soon as I had agents interested in representing me they all required me to be vaccinated and up-to-date on my boosters. I had seen enough potential hazards with that approach, so I declined to do that and my manager had to let me go because he couldn't market me.
- I tried doing the whole Hustler's University thing and The Real World after discovering Andrew Tate via copywriting. Everybody I reached out to was getting bombarded by emails from people who were doing the same thing and offering the same service, so aside from 1 client, didn't see success with that.
- Most recently I was introduced to a company who files the Employee Retention Credit for small businesses where you can make a profit based on the percentage of their refund. Tuned into their calls for several months and met with a mentor who was making a killing doing this and decided to take my copywriting skills and pour my money and effort into cold outreach email campaigns. I finally started getting some responses to schedule calls when the IRS released a statement that they were going to put a moratorium on new filings until at LEAST the end of this year, and they would extend the filing process to 6 months - meaning that at the EARLIEST I could be paid in the 2nd half of next year for any applicants I found that I could help now. Because of that, I had to stop my outreach and email services because I was just bleeding money then.
And now I'm here, without a plan...
Some of the ideas I have include working with a guy I met through HU that does contract work for business startups, I help him compile his outreach lists and he agrees to cut me in on any that close, though so far none have closed and only 2 have scheduled calls...
I've always been big into natural fitness and was considering trying to see if my followers were interested in having me train them via an app. Figure if there's interest I could do free trials for those individuals and use their results to offer paid services...
My mom talks to my brother and I, knowing that we're both disgruntled with our current financial situations. She thinks we should just up and go somewhere without a plan and make it work. That seems more romantic than practical...
And I keep coming back to the idea of learning futures or the stock market...one of the common denominators of these failed ventures is that I've tried to do things that rely on other people in some way; dropshipping depended on Chinese distribution, modeling depended on being vaccinated, the ERC depends on the IRS, etc. Stocks would just depend on me, and my ability to create a system. Problem with that is that it takes considerable time and skill to do that, and I feel like I've already taken too much time...
I don't know, maybe I could stream? I'm good at a lot of video games and think I'd be entertaining, but building an audience would also take a considerable time and money investment to create a working setup.
Either way, if anybody reads this and has any insight on what they think I should do, I'd love to hear it. I've done all these things because I hate working the job I have now under my prick of a boss, and I've worked in corporate environments as a mortgage lender and came to the conclusion that I'd want to find a way to become wealthy where I'm not at somebody's beck and call.
Hope I'll have some thoughts to read from you all, thanks for tuning in to my rant.