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I am struggling to be a successful entrepreneur for some time now.
I have a decent job in software sales making mid six figures, bought a multi family house (live in one apartment rent the other) engaged, have a small child - in most respects many would say I am successful.
My job of over seven years in sales is laid back giving me some flexibility in life.
I’ve been wanting to be an entrepreneur for a while now. With my strong marketing and sales background I’ve created a few websites during my late 20s and early 30s mostly in affiliate marketing but nothing has taken off. To be transparent I largely blame my lack of discipline to stick with it (results take forever in affiliate marketing) and my charades in my 20s and 30s with the ladies.
Fast forward today I turned 40 a few months ago and I am now in a job where I making enough to get by but not big dollars. I have recruiters reaching out to me for jobs where I could double my base salary and make more money on commissions. It’s so tempting but I yearn to have my own business although $250K-300K in a w2 sounds sweet but after taxes and dealing with all the corporate BS i know it’s just a carrot stick.
But I wonder if taking a job that pays double is worth giving up a few hours a day of flexibility and whether it will further leases my chances of my own business.
I hear stories of other people launching businesses even gimicky ones IMO such as TikTok channels making 20-40K a month as I can’t understand why that’s not me!?! I’ve read plenty of books but don’t seem to execute (a key point MJ makes) and I lack the discipline to focus I guess. I think affiliate marketing is not as easy as it used to be either, maybe if I had a business where I saw results faster I’d be more motivated. But affiliate marketing allows me to balance having a job and everything else.
Plus as MJ also points out it gets harder as you get older it is so true. Having a kid definitely eats time as well although I have no regrets.
You may be wondering what did I want from writing this post - and I am not sure myself.
Maybe a kick in the a$$? Advice on whether I should stick with my job and stick it out and keep trying? Or just take the higher paying job and use the extra money to invest? What would you do? I have had the opportunity to switch jobs in the past to make more but passed on them to work on my own biz but it never seems to pan out.
Regarding discipline - I normally get fired up each new year with my websites, am really engaged for a few months then slowly I either procrastinate or just stop working on my projects completely!?!
I have a decent job in software sales making mid six figures, bought a multi family house (live in one apartment rent the other) engaged, have a small child - in most respects many would say I am successful.
My job of over seven years in sales is laid back giving me some flexibility in life.
I’ve been wanting to be an entrepreneur for a while now. With my strong marketing and sales background I’ve created a few websites during my late 20s and early 30s mostly in affiliate marketing but nothing has taken off. To be transparent I largely blame my lack of discipline to stick with it (results take forever in affiliate marketing) and my charades in my 20s and 30s with the ladies.
Fast forward today I turned 40 a few months ago and I am now in a job where I making enough to get by but not big dollars. I have recruiters reaching out to me for jobs where I could double my base salary and make more money on commissions. It’s so tempting but I yearn to have my own business although $250K-300K in a w2 sounds sweet but after taxes and dealing with all the corporate BS i know it’s just a carrot stick.
But I wonder if taking a job that pays double is worth giving up a few hours a day of flexibility and whether it will further leases my chances of my own business.
I hear stories of other people launching businesses even gimicky ones IMO such as TikTok channels making 20-40K a month as I can’t understand why that’s not me!?! I’ve read plenty of books but don’t seem to execute (a key point MJ makes) and I lack the discipline to focus I guess. I think affiliate marketing is not as easy as it used to be either, maybe if I had a business where I saw results faster I’d be more motivated. But affiliate marketing allows me to balance having a job and everything else.
Plus as MJ also points out it gets harder as you get older it is so true. Having a kid definitely eats time as well although I have no regrets.
You may be wondering what did I want from writing this post - and I am not sure myself.
Maybe a kick in the a$$? Advice on whether I should stick with my job and stick it out and keep trying? Or just take the higher paying job and use the extra money to invest? What would you do? I have had the opportunity to switch jobs in the past to make more but passed on them to work on my own biz but it never seems to pan out.
Regarding discipline - I normally get fired up each new year with my websites, am really engaged for a few months then slowly I either procrastinate or just stop working on my projects completely!?!
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