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🚨 **Struggling to Make Money (31, Male): A Journey of Ups and Downs** 🚨
Are you at a crossroads in your career, constantly searching for the right path to financial stability? If you’re a 31-year-old male who has been through various job changes and entrepreneurial ventures, feeling stuck and uncertain about the next steps, you’re not alone. 🤯
### 🌟 The Search for Financial Stability: A Rollercoaster Ride 🌟
In April 2020, I made a bold move and quit my stable job as an operations manager to pursue my passion for entrepreneurship. Little did I know that the global pandemic would change everything. From starting a soccer café/bar to creating social media content about soccer, my journey has been filled with twists and turns. 🎢
### 💡 Practical Solutions for Financial Success 💡
#### 1. **Explore Your Passion**: Instead of jumping from one job to another, focus on what truly excites you. If soccer is your passion, consider turning it into a source of income through coaching, content creation, or even starting a soccer-related business.
#### 2. **Utilize Your Skills**: With a background in business administration and experience in mortgage sales, leverage your skills to find a job in the finance industry. Consider roles in financial planning, wealth management, or banking to align with your expertise.
#### 3. **Monetize Your Knowledge**: As you contemplate creating personal finance content or becoming a financial coach, explore avenues to monetize your expertise. Offer online courses, coaching sessions, or consulting services to help others manage their finances effectively.
#### 4. **Seek Mentorship**: Connect with professionals in the financial industry or successful entrepreneurs who can provide guidance and mentorship. Their insights and advice can help you navigate your career choices and make informed decisions.
### 🚀 Embracing the Future: Pursuing Your Dreams 🚀
While the path to financial stability may seem daunting, remember that each experience, whether successful or not, provides valuable lessons and insights. Stay proactive, motivated, and open to new opportunities that align with your goals and aspirations. Your determination and resilience will ultimately lead you to success. 💪
### 🌟 Conclusion: A Brighter Future Awaits 🌟
As you ponder your next steps and contemplate your career options, remember that every challenge you face brings you closer to your goals. Embrace change, take calculated risks, and remain focused on creating a fulfilling and financially rewarding life for yourself. The journey may be challenging, but the destination is worth it. 🌈
What do you plan to do next to overcome your financial struggles? Share your thoughts, ideas, and experiences in the comments below! Let’s support each other on this journey to financial success. 💬✨
It sounds like you’re jumping from idea to idea without real commitment to any single one. Pick something and stick with it through the hard times instead jumping to a new idea.
Nothing will come easy. The only way to guarantee never getting success is by jumping to a different boat every time things get tough.
In psychology something called hippocampus and opioids. Where you need to trick your mind to grind through your pain and when you feel pain to encourage more actions to bare with it. By doing so, you will trick your mind to reject dopemine and stick with what ever issue comes you way.
Trick your mind to saying this job or business is your last line of defense if it doesn’t work, then you will be in a survival mode and you will have to push yourself.
Bro. Find something you enjoy doing that people need. Get really good at it. STICK WITH IT. You have had five different professions in as many years. You need a regular job for now to pay your bills and then work on one specific side hustle that you can build over time. But more than anything you need focus.
Well, I am not going to ask you to stick with anything, cuz when you don’t like it, it is just you don’t see any hope in it, if you saw the hope, you would have sticked with it. But as a grown man, we just really need to take the responsibility for the risk we have borne. And you mentioned about finance, tell me if you are one of your client, what suggestions are you going to provide? Lower the risk perhaps?
Passion does not work. Find a fucking boring job and die fat, bored and poor. The end.
I have a similar feeling how you do not getting something to work. But I’m also trying to start a business/community around helping people with their finances as well. Maybe we can chat and share ideas? My DMs are open
The mistake you’re making is not selling what people need and selling what people might want
I’ve been a failed entrepreneur a couple of times, what I’ve understood is to get a stable job that pays stable income, and keep working on your business idea on afterwork hours and weekends. Do not quit your job till your business starts generating revenue at least 70% of what your day job makes. Once you teach this point, you can consider quitting your job and going full-time into your business. But again, take it slow and stick to a day job and learn to feel uncomfortable in it.
You should not do one thing than do another. You need to add up not doing one job than the next one. Make yourself reliable so people will come back.
Mate i am kind of similar, jumping from python to trading to work related stuff – except i am a step behind you and dont know what i want in life kind of thing.
What about you merge soccer and financial planning together? Create an app (or business/site/door 2 door) for sporting clubs (outside of soccer too) and niche into insurance i.e. not sure if you have income protection insurance over there but try find one for professional athletes and sell them or have an option? TPD / disability insurance might have some loadings or exclusions so you could try find life insurers that provide friendly ones for professional athletes? Then you can look into their retirement and investment planning?
Entrepreneurship is about **persistence**.
Pick the one thing you’re most passionate about and give it your all for a set period.
If you’re having trouble coming up with some side hustle cash I posted a guide on my profile. It’s not meant to replace full income just some beermoney
I know a few people who were in a similar situation – they usually started contracting/freelancing, and later expanded that to an agency.
I’d suggest finding something you’re passionate/comfortable in and something that sells. I studied Marine Biology but nowhere near passionate about it than IT as it is my hobby.
Switched to IT before COVID, did some side hustle (freelancing) and then the opportunity presented itself. Ofcourse that are other factors that played apart, but being in something you’re good at makes people want to pay for your services.
My business is not as big as I want it to be but I have 2 other person in my company now.
You need a day job that will pay your bills. Can’t tell you where the best place is but something you can live off, save money and work on your passions outside of.
Some great advice here about getting a job to pay the bills while you work on your dream business on the side.
I coach my clients to combine their passion, strengths and measure the market need before starting a business.
A business online for sure would be a great adjunct to your day job until you make enough to go full time.
While there may not be as much need in the soccer world, your skills with personal finance and setting up Google accounts give you an edge over many people.
The YouTube CPM for finance is the highest meaning you can make more money per 1000 views that most creators. But that road is long and hard so you have to stick with it.
You could run the finance channel, create a finance community, publish and sell digital finance content and courses (including business how tos with Google) charge memberships for mentoring and multiply your income from different streams.
Then kick back and drink beer while watching soccer in your free time.
You know what the world needs more of? People that have no financial skills telling people how to manage their finances.
Stick to one thing. My problem was I was all over the place working with business partners who would not commit to the projects or they name drop or use me for solutions but not doing it equally. Do not get in partnerships unless the partner adds to your value and is committed to it as you’re are. Or find a partner that completes you as a team. Also learn sales because you have to prove your worth it and can communicate your vision for yourself and others. Learn also inventory and accounting so if you start a store you can keep track of your supply and accounting for knowing your number but learn financing so you can expand your opportunities because you know raise capital for yourself and others I say stick to the field of soccer since that what your passionate about and look for things in that field such as pr specialist for that team you root for. I had many projects also because I thought I have partner who help me and they did not unless your partners are serious I suggest get something established and if you have hire someone to help go on bacon rodeo thumbtack or any work project site that hires freelancers. But stay focused on your passion and keep on finding way make happen. I suggest also read Gary vee he is one best in social media or Patrick Bet David of valuetainment helps entrepreneurs.
It sounds like you’re just jumping around trying to chase the money. I’ll give you some advice that I’ve been told time and time again. You can’t chase money the more you chase it the faster it will run from you. When you dedicate effort into a single thing and stick to it you’ll find success. If your constantly jumping around you’ll never spend enough time or energy in a single thing to create something substantial
The consistency is the key to success. Find something and stick to it no matter what.
Wtf….is this for real?
You sound like you should work hard in a regular job and save for 5 years before you try something independent.
You’re getting a lot of good advice on persistence and sticking thru things, and some advice on specifics. I’ll add one piece i didn’t see mentioned: you’ve got mad hustle. Getting multiple licenses in short order isn’t easy. And knowing what you don’t like is important too. I do think you need to take some more hits before you wave something off but kinda cool you eliminated 4-5 jobs or industries in just a couple years bc you actually tried them.
Keep that hustle going. Use it to pick what you’re interested in and get reps in. Then stick with it. I promise, nothing will knock your socks off or be 100% of what you imagine entrepreneurship to be. But if you find something that meets 70% of your requirements, go all in until it breaks. Good luck.
I feel like you would greatly benefit from watching [this video](https://youtu.be/MNll1BaskLA?si=v6sLDyxkIXCMTNm4) by Alex Hormozi that talks about the biggest keys to success.
Pick a direction, find something that’s going to reasonably get you going in that direction and bust ass doing it.
Learn what you’re doing while doing it. Don’t worry about trying to ‘improve’ on what someone is training you to do, you don’t know shit yet. Just work with the focus of getting good and pay attention.
Cut spending and grind while you’re figuring shit out. Live on less than you’re making. Yes, you can, you just might not like the first few months/years until you get going.
Most people don’t know what hard is actually like. If you want to go far, be ready for what doing hard shit looks like.
Watch the video, feel free to follow the rabbit hole it takes you down, just don’t get so caught up in learning that you forget the doing.
I hate to be harsh, but your financial life and decisions the last few years sound like a sh*t show, and if I knew this history and you were pitching yourself to me as a financial coach, I would run the other way. Pick something and stick with it as if your life depends on it. It doesn’t sounds like you have sold yourself on any of your ideas over the years, so it is no wonder you haven’t sold the ideas to other people and generated income. At this point I would suggest going to find a steady paying job until you can get your head on straight and come up with a solid plan.