Hey guys. My name is Jacob. I'm 21 years old and excited to be apart of the forum!
I've read (listened) to TMF twice now and Unscripted once.
After high school I started a gutter cleaning "business" to make money until I went off to the Citadel to pursue the military.
My first semester at college (The Citadel) I quickly realized that college classes were not a good use of my time or money.
Bored and uninspired by my classes, I went to Google and began learning how to develop my skills and become valuable. My passion for entrepreneurship outweighed my desire to go into the military so I quit pursuing the marines and dropped out of school.
After dropping out 11 months ago, I moved back in with my parents and picked up my gutter cleaning business again.
My intention was to use the income from the gutter cleaning business to fund the start up of an e-commerce business as I did NOT want to stay in the cleaning industry.
I then planned to use the e-commerce income to get myself out of my parents house, pay off my $15k student loans and then fund my next business which I would hopefully figure out what that would be along the way. That would be my real fastlane business.
It hasn't gone as planned to say the least.
Here's what I've been struggling with this year:
Not enough action and lack of commitment. I keep getting distracted from my goals of getting into e-com and resorting back to paying more attention to my gutter cleaning business which is going to take me nowhere in life.
Here's what I need advice on:
I feel like I'm too comfortable and there isn't enough pressure on me to stay focused on e-commerce. I live with my parents but pay rent and for all of my expenses. Gutter cleaning can be good money but isn't consistent and isn't going to get me to my goals. I can make $1000/day and then only make a few hundred bucks the entire next week. I want to sell all of my ladders and equipment and go get a lower paying hourly job because i feel like it would put me in enough pain to get and stay focused on building an e-com brand instead of trying to build a gutter cleaning business. The thing is I have such a hard time justifying this transition because cleaning gutters can be good money but isn't consistent. I'm broke ($6k credit card debt and $450 in my bank account) yet I feel like cleaning gutters is keeping me comfortable and distracted.
My Question for you:
Should I sell my equipment, close down my business, get a lower paying hourly job which would force myself to start a new business? If not, Why?
I will probably clean up and re-post my question on another thread but I would love to hear anyone's opinion on what I should do!
Excited to start participating and talking to everyone here.
I've read (listened) to TMF twice now and Unscripted once.
After high school I started a gutter cleaning "business" to make money until I went off to the Citadel to pursue the military.
My first semester at college (The Citadel) I quickly realized that college classes were not a good use of my time or money.
Bored and uninspired by my classes, I went to Google and began learning how to develop my skills and become valuable. My passion for entrepreneurship outweighed my desire to go into the military so I quit pursuing the marines and dropped out of school.
After dropping out 11 months ago, I moved back in with my parents and picked up my gutter cleaning business again.
My intention was to use the income from the gutter cleaning business to fund the start up of an e-commerce business as I did NOT want to stay in the cleaning industry.
I then planned to use the e-commerce income to get myself out of my parents house, pay off my $15k student loans and then fund my next business which I would hopefully figure out what that would be along the way. That would be my real fastlane business.
It hasn't gone as planned to say the least.
Here's what I've been struggling with this year:
Not enough action and lack of commitment. I keep getting distracted from my goals of getting into e-com and resorting back to paying more attention to my gutter cleaning business which is going to take me nowhere in life.
Here's what I need advice on:
I feel like I'm too comfortable and there isn't enough pressure on me to stay focused on e-commerce. I live with my parents but pay rent and for all of my expenses. Gutter cleaning can be good money but isn't consistent and isn't going to get me to my goals. I can make $1000/day and then only make a few hundred bucks the entire next week. I want to sell all of my ladders and equipment and go get a lower paying hourly job because i feel like it would put me in enough pain to get and stay focused on building an e-com brand instead of trying to build a gutter cleaning business. The thing is I have such a hard time justifying this transition because cleaning gutters can be good money but isn't consistent. I'm broke ($6k credit card debt and $450 in my bank account) yet I feel like cleaning gutters is keeping me comfortable and distracted.
My Question for you:
Should I sell my equipment, close down my business, get a lower paying hourly job which would force myself to start a new business? If not, Why?
I will probably clean up and re-post my question on another thread but I would love to hear anyone's opinion on what I should do!
Excited to start participating and talking to everyone here.
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