(Money/Entrepreneurship) I don't really know what to do...

[BPH]

This last week or 2, I've been incredibly lazy because I don't really know what to put my energy into...

As a lot of you know, I tried my hand at dating coaching. I stopped doing that about a month or 2 ago, because after a little more than a year, my only clients were members from this forum. I hadn't even had a sales call with anybody through social media promotion, and what I was trying to do was damaging my in-person relationships with women. I hadn't been paid since April, and because this was also affecting my in-person relationships, I felt it was time to stop.

I tried to find something objective that didn't require me to play the social media popularity game, where it was a binary problem that didn't rely on sales skill - either the problem exists and I can fix it, or it doesn't, and I can't. That was email deliverability consulting, which is an actual problem...but most people solve it by having their IT guy get on it, or hiring somebody from Fiverr. There's an entrepreneurship forum I'm active on where I presented this, and a guy who's working in lead gen informed me of how others are solving this problem, detailing how he makes his money by offering full-stack lead generation, rather than focusing solely on the problem I wanted to solve.

Now...I quit my job at the beginning of this year. My boss was busy chewing me out again, and I thought to myself, "If I knew this was going to work, would I continue dealing with this?" The answer was "no", and I'd saved up a good bit of money, so I left.

Things haven't panned out the way I'd hoped, and I'm just not really sure what to do. I'm not sure where to invest my time, energy, and effort, because it feels like every choice I make is incorrect.

I could get a job, but that's just a band-aid fix. The reason I left in the first place was that I didn't have time to dedicate to pursuing this and was just going through the motions, doing the bare minimum in the hours after work.

I don't need to get rich tomorrow, but I need to find something where I can start getting paid today. And I don't know what that is.

Not sure what type of replies I'm expecting, if any, but I've been very stagnant lately because it feels like I just cannot win, no matter what I do.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

The most important thing to be successful as an entrepreneur is to just stick to it.

There's no secret. Just don't give up.

Which means you need to pick something that you can legit do for a few years.

You may have to get a regular job and start your business as a side hustle, or even a free hustle, and just keep growing it.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

Limo driver OP if you have a commercial DL

Or bartender

For entrepreneurship get into prepping. The world is going to sh1t.

Oh wait nm - guided tours of the PINE BARRENS

 

[Gamisch]

I told you before to get into the trades.

In my language they say that the sector is "greying out"( too many old folks that are about to retire or simply die ) . Meanwhile the work still needs to be done...

In the trades you can make tins of money IF you're willing to both work hard AND are willing to scientifically study your craft.

You've been with enough women now bruh...no need to prove anything anymore to anyone. The next date will at best be a repeat of the previous ones....

Get those hands dirty and afterwards wash them with clean money!

 

[Poonstra]

I know it's a cliche, but think about what you love doing.
If you love going to work you'll want to know every intricate detail of your profession.
Once you studied every aspect of your work you'll become good at it.
If you're good at it the money will follow.

get into the trades

If there's something in the trades that you love to do this is good advise. Where I'm from there's already welders out earning lawyers because the demand for skilled people is so high.

 

[sevbucmash]

I don't need to get rich tomorrow, but I need to find something where I can start getting paid today.

Start doing uber. Get rental vehicle from uber hertz rental fleet, $279 for premium qualified vehicle (get nissan or toyota). Lick the car inside and out, remove cabin air filter and pour cleaner onto evaporator if there is hvac stink. Clean daily, get carwash membership and portable vacuum. Get working. First 25 rides on your new account you only do exclusives, blue button and you always hit accept. That will be gold trial, you do 25 exclusives you will have 100% acceptance, you keep gold without ever dipping into blue. Then continue doing short bull**** rides with rider filter at 4.9 and area filter. Get yourself into platinum and then hit diamond level. Uber starts at diamond level. Everything bellow is garbage and you must suffer through it.

Blue & Gold = hispanics with comesa three children and dirty laundry bag, tranny men in skirts, etc..
Platinum = major improvement in quality of rides, you hit VIP's.
Diamond = you actually making money.

Always have your rider filter at 4.9. Obey CMT rating. Protect your star rating. Develop 6th sense for crap riders and rate them low in advance if there are flags for low rating behavior.

Basically, as you develop it's $1500 a week.

Plus you always have a backup plan for when **** does hit the fan.

If you want to be extra lazy you can do it to have a vehicle with zero deductible insurance, just do 30 rides per week. Which is realistically two days worth of work, which will pay for your vehicle rental and fuel.



Keep your record spotless. I have 1 four star rating, and 2 three stars. All 3 times I was tired and missed obvious red flags. Preemptively rating low results in retaliatory feedback from rider, which don't count. Set your PIN, that keeps coordinator bull**** away from you. Learn to observe, if you see dog, bail, use arrive and then can't find rider, or if you think rider might complain, just cancel and take a hit. Cancellation disappear after 100 rides, realistically a week or so. Avoid shady areas where people do drugs and vape, I missed an exclusive because rider got me high, so now I'm at 99% acceptance, which will disappear after 100 exclusive rides, longer than one week for me because I'm diamond, I cherry pick my rides, I use trip radar.

Uber is not something you can just start doing, it's something you must build. Once you are diamond, it's excellent money.

For you specifically, it's an opportunity to meet baddest chicks in your town. Uber is literally better than a super car. Those that rent super cars end up just driving alone. Women willingly get into Uber.

It's an opportunity to meet very powerful people, business men and politicians. People that own a lot of things.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

Affiliate marketing remains viable.

 

[Sega Genesis]

@BPH do you think you might be suffering from a sort of depression? It's difficult to become motivated to do anything when in such a state.

Tbh I have wondered about this for awhile. Been there myself. Therapy has helped me a lot.

In any event, since you are very interested in physical fitness, have you considered becoming a fitness trainer at a gym?

A girlfriend of mine got her certification in only 4 weeks and now has a great job as a fitness instructor at a popular gym in our area.

Just a thought, good luck man.

 

[Clockwerk50]

Now, I’m not particularly financially savvy, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Back in my home country, my dad came from money, while my mom came from a poor family. My dad worked in sales but also had an entrepreneurial spirit. I believe he started three companies because his family money allowed him to make the initial investments. I remember the second one was a broom manufacturing business. He bought a machine to make brooms and mops, then carried the products on his back or took them on the bus to sell to small convenience stores. I believe the machine was extremely expensive. My mom said he got hustled, and eventually, we ran out of money and had to move in with my grandmother. He eventually abandoned the business and returned to working as a sales representative, where he made more money than he ever could running a business on his own.

Taking that experience into consideration, along with how many restaurants or other businesses operate on such low margins, I’m not particularly enthusiastic about entrepreneurship. I also see how many contractors at my job complain about struggling financially because larger companies pay them on 60-, 90-, or even 120-day terms. Hell, two of the biggest contractors I know, the roofer I used to work for and the brother-in-law of the white girl I’m currently seeing, who works in masonry, get most of their contracts through their fathers. Their fathers handle the quoting, sales, connections, and even have much of the workforce in place. Her dad is also a contractor, in his 70s, and he doesn’t have any money because he didn’t charge his customers as much as he should have.

With all that in mind, I’d say you might have better luck pursuing a career in the corporate world or government, with the goal of eventually moving into a director-level position or something along those lines. Alternatively, you could go to school to become a teacher, accountant, lawyer, or enter another specialized profession. Or I guess get in the trades, but keep in mind you have to do the whole operation (marketing, sales, health and safety, payroll, customer service, etc). Some people just don’t have the stomach to be entrepreneurs.