yogiho2
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im 30 year old working a job that give me 2$ a day , in a third world country where the dollar is leveraged against me 50X , I have previously wasted 5 years of my life doing absolutely nothing , wake up play video games for 12 hours and sleep only to do it again the next day, I was “free” to do anything I wanted , I could go outside or I can stay in home all day , since I relied on family for financial support , however even tho I spend all day playing video games I wasn’t happy , even tho I loved them but I was content not fulfilled
i kept thinking “ im basically doing what all retiree do but im 25 and insteed of a bank account I syphon from I syphon from my family” however this didn’t bring me happiness, is this what people strive for ? to sit In a box they call apartment and inject their mind with whatever make their brain chemicals happy ?
I quickly realized whats my problem ,, my problem is that I didn’t add value to anyone , what I truly want is to make other people happy and this bring me self-fulfilment , so I thought its time for a job
I got a job as IT and it bring me happiness to finally helping people , I loved it when people thank me for fixing their printer or fixing their connections , what I didn’t enjoy is the endless wires since im not very good with my hands and the fact that you are no different then a slave since you can’t make actual decisions that’s effect how things are runs I had ideas but everytime I came up with them I was told “stay in your lane” “ whats IT knows about X” “ just do what you are told”
working on 2$ a day just wont do , for refrence my family members after 20 years in the medical field make 15$ a day , there got to be a better way then this , slave away at job only to end up old and miserable , maybe have a couple of kids and HOPE they do better then you because you couldn’t do It yourself, tell various self lies to yourself to justify you current position.
Now after this rant what can I possibly do ? , I need to work for myself, I need to help people but make actual good money with it , so I went ahead and examined my options :
1- sell a product : I have 50x leverged against me and its growing every year , 26% inflation rate with dying currency . selling a product locally aginest those odds is shooting myself in the foot before I even start running
2- selling a service : same issues as above PLUS you pay with your time , say I started a computer repair service , where I go to people houses and fix their PC , most people have phones now not PC and how many people I can go to in a day ? 3 ? 5 if I really pushed it ? giving me 5$ per fix for 25$ a day ? no thank you
3-selling products online: it fixes a lot of issues since you get paid by the $ , so I get the 50x leverage working for me insteed of against me , however there millions and millions of products out there , I feel the odds of finding a winning product are slim and I don’t have the required capital to even advertise them (reminder I make 2$ a day)
dropshipping ? any highschooler in the USA with spare couch change can make a website in 2 days and sell the same product as you ( Entry is easy no barrier) , and your only axis for improvement are price and advertising , you can’t add features or control manufacturing ( a lose control)
4- selling a service online: to me this seem the only viable route for me , services are hard to build (entry barrier) , the control is you and your efforts alone , the really hard part is automating them but it can be solved with a lot of effort and ingenuity.
This I came to conclusion is that if Im gonna invest the next 5 years of my life into something it got to be some sort of online service however those are my challenges.
1- Im literally without a voice : imagine you small business owner and you get a phone call with some thick middle eastern/ indian accent telling you about their great service , your mind literally scream “SCAM” , thanks indian scam centers ! Since I can’t call them Im gonna need to sell only through online advertising and internet searchs
2-Finding the Need in the market : I don’t have a clue what a good service that people are willing pay subscriptions since I never paid subscription in my life (except maybe WoW But even that I bought it with ingame currency) i also don’t find a lot of subscriptions business’s in my environment around me, how can I determine what good service I should build ?
3- lack of skills: this is the biggest hurdle I see to overcome tbh , because I don’t know what skills gonna be worth my time , “just learn 2 code bro” seem bullshit to me , I want to learn what will increase the value of my business , what will generate income , if I generate income I can hire any 2 bit coder from the street and pay him the 4$ a day to slave away
So my to plan is basically :
1- finding a service that the people need
2- learning the skills require to build a business by ACTUALLY building the business
3- Scaling the business to the moon
If you read this far im looking for feedback and suggestion , in the past I made the critical mistake of listening to the wrong people and letting my path be dictated by them and forgot that they are average people looking for average results , meanwhile here I see people who don’t want to be average but aspire to be more ad i hope some who have been in my position can save me some time and effort and lead me through a better path
i kept thinking “ im basically doing what all retiree do but im 25 and insteed of a bank account I syphon from I syphon from my family” however this didn’t bring me happiness, is this what people strive for ? to sit In a box they call apartment and inject their mind with whatever make their brain chemicals happy ?
I quickly realized whats my problem ,, my problem is that I didn’t add value to anyone , what I truly want is to make other people happy and this bring me self-fulfilment , so I thought its time for a job
I got a job as IT and it bring me happiness to finally helping people , I loved it when people thank me for fixing their printer or fixing their connections , what I didn’t enjoy is the endless wires since im not very good with my hands and the fact that you are no different then a slave since you can’t make actual decisions that’s effect how things are runs I had ideas but everytime I came up with them I was told “stay in your lane” “ whats IT knows about X” “ just do what you are told”
working on 2$ a day just wont do , for refrence my family members after 20 years in the medical field make 15$ a day , there got to be a better way then this , slave away at job only to end up old and miserable , maybe have a couple of kids and HOPE they do better then you because you couldn’t do It yourself, tell various self lies to yourself to justify you current position.
Now after this rant what can I possibly do ? , I need to work for myself, I need to help people but make actual good money with it , so I went ahead and examined my options :
1- sell a product : I have 50x leverged against me and its growing every year , 26% inflation rate with dying currency . selling a product locally aginest those odds is shooting myself in the foot before I even start running
2- selling a service : same issues as above PLUS you pay with your time , say I started a computer repair service , where I go to people houses and fix their PC , most people have phones now not PC and how many people I can go to in a day ? 3 ? 5 if I really pushed it ? giving me 5$ per fix for 25$ a day ? no thank you
3-selling products online: it fixes a lot of issues since you get paid by the $ , so I get the 50x leverage working for me insteed of against me , however there millions and millions of products out there , I feel the odds of finding a winning product are slim and I don’t have the required capital to even advertise them (reminder I make 2$ a day)
dropshipping ? any highschooler in the USA with spare couch change can make a website in 2 days and sell the same product as you ( Entry is easy no barrier) , and your only axis for improvement are price and advertising , you can’t add features or control manufacturing ( a lose control)
4- selling a service online: to me this seem the only viable route for me , services are hard to build (entry barrier) , the control is you and your efforts alone , the really hard part is automating them but it can be solved with a lot of effort and ingenuity.
This I came to conclusion is that if Im gonna invest the next 5 years of my life into something it got to be some sort of online service however those are my challenges.
1- Im literally without a voice : imagine you small business owner and you get a phone call with some thick middle eastern/ indian accent telling you about their great service , your mind literally scream “SCAM” , thanks indian scam centers ! Since I can’t call them Im gonna need to sell only through online advertising and internet searchs
2-Finding the Need in the market : I don’t have a clue what a good service that people are willing pay subscriptions since I never paid subscription in my life (except maybe WoW But even that I bought it with ingame currency) i also don’t find a lot of subscriptions business’s in my environment around me, how can I determine what good service I should build ?
3- lack of skills: this is the biggest hurdle I see to overcome tbh , because I don’t know what skills gonna be worth my time , “just learn 2 code bro” seem bullshit to me , I want to learn what will increase the value of my business , what will generate income , if I generate income I can hire any 2 bit coder from the street and pay him the 4$ a day to slave away
So my to plan is basically :
1- finding a service that the people need
2- learning the skills require to build a business by ACTUALLY building the business
3- Scaling the business to the moon
If you read this far im looking for feedback and suggestion , in the past I made the critical mistake of listening to the wrong people and letting my path be dictated by them and forgot that they are average people looking for average results , meanwhile here I see people who don’t want to be average but aspire to be more ad i hope some who have been in my position can save me some time and effort and lead me through a better path
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