28 years old
Bought my first mobile truck washing business at 18 mindlessly, the guy I used to work for on weekends in my high school years sold it to me and I just bought it without ever considering my future, got kicked out the house shortly after, was homeless for a few months sleeping in my car, didn’t know ANYTHING about financial literacy
Picked up a part time night time job at UPS making like $400 a week, started doing mobile bartending events and was making an extra $2000 a weekend and just left behind the truck washing business, saved up 60k from saving my tax refunds and investing in ETFs, selling some weed
Recently my car broke down 2 months ago and I realized “holy shit if it wasn’t for hustle I’d be fucked off that $500 a week”
Anyways realized time dosent come back and I spent the last 10 years of my life just drifting, I have the option to go driver but this isn’t really what I want for the rest of my life, the only reason I stuck around was cause my mom convinced me a pension and free healthcare was worth trading my whole life for
My question is how does one decide what business to dedicate their life too ?
Posted by grfx01
3 Comments
Well, that comes in a few forms.
Sometimes you do something you already know (what I did), plenty of times people do something they think is fun, or solves a problem they think people have. Some people know what industry they want to work it, and make a business to be involved in it regardless of the role they play.
At the end of the day doing something like this is a lot is stress and time and uncertainty. And you’ll have to do a bit of soul searching to know if financial freedom, if you can achieve it, is enough to overcome a job or industry you don’t particularly like, and if the answer is that it isn’t, well then you’ve considerably narrowed the field
honestly the fact that you went from sleeping in your car to saving up 60k is pretty impressive. goes to show it’s not always about the first business but finding what actually works for you. (sc: KateOfy)
Choose a sacrifice you think you can manage in a market you think will be stable or will grow.
Sorry this does not sound fancy or thrilling but it really is the simplest way to go about making the choice.