009

4y

In. I'm so tired of giving my life up to a regular job.

plants

4y

No but my wife does

krishna bound

4y

yeah, my business is self-owned so except when it comes to leaning on partnerships/contracts i'm more or less self-employed. i will admit although it's one of the things which i'm very proud of both the amount of risk and sacrifices i had to make over the course of years to be able to do this is pretty ridiculous. it's worth it - in my opinion - but you have to really grind. The one thing I regret is that I do feel like working self-employed in wide industries (tech & entertainment) has made me extremely cynical and jaded. I wasn't born into a well off or connected family and I never had any connections until i networked and did everything myself. The sheer amount of nepotism, hatred toward "outsiders", blatant corruption, idiocracy, and fakeness you see in these industries from an organic perspective is crazy. I don't really deal with any of that stuff myself as I work in a more sliced-off sector but it exists tangential to me and it's hard to ignore. I miss when I could see things like new games or movies or innovative tech and be thrilled by it which is what pushed me to do this stuff from when i was younger. I'm happy to be doing stuff myself but at the same time the whole magic you think going behind the scenes isn't just evaporated it's straight up inverted.

0

4y

yeah i made it very successful

https://metamask.io/

whippet volverse

4y

dam.
I'm proud of you for overcoming. stories like you will serve to inspire others like you.
But what do you mean when you say "inverted"?

0

4y

they are lying to you then

only the top .01% of any shopify drop shipping store will make any type of serious revenue

not to mention the hundreds of thousands they'd be spending on facebook ads

drop shipping was a meme for a bit but now the only successful e commerce plays are vertically integrated and take care of their customers, not some 1 off scam store selling posture braces or whatever item they saw was hot

GottaGloUp1Day

4y

What’s her OF @

RX Nigerian Pastor

4y

I used to sell s*** I stole from jobs. I also used to hustle back in high school and would clock like 300- 400 a week doing s***. (Just small odd jobs or loaning niggas money, running dice games..etc)

Trying to figure out how I can finesse from Walmart and sell s*** from there.

Mad money to be made but it’s so high risk because they will let you steal but wait until it’s enough money for them to put a felony on your ass.

clb younghotness

4y

Do you do this?

krishna bound

4y

yeah, my business is self-owned so except when it comes to leaning on partnerships/contracts i'm more or less self-employed. i will admit although it's one of the things which i'm very proud of both the amount of risk and sacrifices i had to make over the course of years to be able to do this is pretty ridiculous. it's worth it - in my opinion - but you have to really grind. The one thing I regret is that I do feel like working self-employed in wide industries (tech & entertainment) has made me extremely cynical and jaded. I wasn't born into a well off or connected family and I never had any connections until i networked and did everything myself. The sheer amount of nepotism, hatred toward "outsiders", blatant corruption, idiocracy, and fakeness you see in these industries from an organic perspective is crazy. I don't really deal with any of that stuff myself as I work in a more sliced-off sector but it exists tangential to me and it's hard to ignore. I miss when I could see things like new games or movies or innovative tech and be thrilled by it which is what pushed me to do this stuff from when i was younger. I'm happy to be doing stuff myself but at the same time the whole magic you think going behind the scenes isn't just evaporated it's straight up inverted.

FKA STUFF

4y

I’m the same STUFF user that uses the web 3.0 wallet to interact with smart contracts on Ethereum
which is the only way you will get rich nowadays before it's too late
all of these people posting about drop shipping or other MLMs are not worth your time

genghiskharti

4y

losing that child~like innocence is the worst part man you work so hard and you'll never get that spark again. All the passion turns into pessimism about the rest of the people in your field and how detestable they all are. I would do anything to get it back again. Ignorance really is bliss

krishna bound

4y

I agree. Don't get me wrong, I like what I do, i'm glad I do it and I'm proud of it. But I can't front and say that was part of the price of success. The only thing you have to be passionate about at that point is the innate passion you have toward the work itself or a type of bitterness to the rest of the industry. I definitely miss when i could be innocently optimistic about that stuff

genghiskharti

4y

lol do you ever go into an existential crisis mode and contemplate quitting it all and walking away? I imagine of you're working in an industry like mine you'll be doing the same work for 20+ years. Is there any way to cope?