(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.