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Have you ever tried to sell your own products? A lot of ways you can provide higher consciousness products and services. You will be hard pressed to find many businesses at that stage mixed with typical sales like positions. But Marketing would be easier to find as charities need there share of marketing and so forth. But even those are filled with many that are not up to par with likely that degree of forward thinking. Psychology would really just depend on how much in control you are in of your own practices. But I would take a stab at it and say that is quite unlikely. You would like be put in a position to peddle or promote drugs that don't promote much good. If you you took any of those and made it into your own practice or gig you would fare much better. You could also skip out on the work environment. I would bet you the rewards internally and externally would be much great too. However, I understand if that is not a route you want to take, but something worth considering if you really do value stage yellow concepts highly. I have sold a lot of stuff and I sell stuff for a living right now. You can do things and make choices that impact others greatly and you can benefit many. Not that I think what I do is considered yellow. But my actions within it are filled with much more conscious choices such as favoring recycling heavily in shipping practices and interactions. You could consider something in sales that is not as much in a work environment and more by the gig such as a realtor. Now I think you should still push towards where you are growing to, or have grown to but you have to decide what is best.
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Going to cut out electronics and just read today. Going to spend some extra time to meditate as well. I am going to prepare to trip. I was going to last night, but figured I did not wanted to be rushed into it and would like to be well rested. I have a really good list of questions that I am going to contemplate and work on. Getting really good click through rate with my thumbnails lol. If I keep at this and I am serious I might get a $150 professional microphone for my phone I think. I will see how it goes though. This one now is pretty crappy, so I think I need something either way. I regret selling the one I had lol. It is tempting to just get the pro one though. I just need to be sure I am going to keep doing this and be serious about it. My speaking is a lot better, but still a lot of filler words. I would like to narrow down a niche I suppose too. I will keep thinking about it. For now it is something to push my comfort zone a bit. Feel really good and energized today. It will be nice to relax today and spend some time reading. My meditation is going well and I am able to sit in posture for the 25 minutes with some adjustments here and there to keep my legs from falling asleep. Which is a pretty big improvement for me. I might do an hour of just do nothing as well today just to get things set for later. Today I am thankful for Rest Feeling good Money coming in
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Going to make the effort to record outside today. It has almost been two months since I did that! I think just the mix of all of this stuff weighing on me had just put to many negative thoughts or feelings towards it. I want to make it into something I enjoy, but it can still be good quality. I am going to go for it assuming I don't get completely rained out lol. The idea of it sounds pretty good right now and I already have some bullet points for things I want to go over and I did the keyword research for the title. I did not heavily search on how well these keywords will do. My last video actually ranked #1 for the search I made for it, which was a really good test for me to see how to get results with ranking. I got an ipad with a cracked screen and some lcd issues. I am going to see if this helps me boost my productivity at all and keeps me focused. It seems like an awesome notes machine and hopefully can keep me on track while doing some research and stuff. I have been flipping these a lot, so I decided to get a upgraded one over the last and it does all the current IOS and etc. Was a great bargain at $42 as well. I have a ton of apple products coming in. I saved up all of the money I owed for taxes and I am just reinvesting in into this stuff for awhile until the pushed back dead line comes closer. My reading was not all that great this week. I did read a lot more of stock stuff I suppose at least, but significantly down from how much I had been reading. My sleeping schedule has not been all that great. But I am okay with it right now. That stuff just seems to go in a cycle. I am way ahead of my goal to read 40 or so books in a year. I am already over 20 for this year, which is incredible. I am sure once I take a bit more intrest in the topics and add some new material in things will get going well. I am thinking about tripping tonight and focusing in on mostly questions. I might wait it out a little longer, but not too sure yet. I feel like my mood has been good. Some negative thoughts arise, but I seem to be able to shut them out fine. I will see how I feel, but I think it might be a good route to go. Today I am thankful for More optimism Feeling refreshed on the video making Ipad
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See if you can get rid of the shadow from your newest video with a angled light if possible. As a general tip would be just to be consistent. Audience retention falls fast without consistent uploads. I see you are uploading a bit more recently though. Are you doing any keyword research? This is definitely an important niche. Most people are into stage orange medicine, but over time you will start to see people start to become more interested into holistic medicine. There is plenty of market for this topic and it will only expand and grow with time.
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Going to work on getting on top of a video today. I feel pretty good about it and I will just see how things go with it. I do see in my future that I do want a higher stage way of earning money and this could be it. I am just going to keep at it even if it does slow down my profits a bit. I am doing surprisingly well with sales by splitting these two. If things do clear up I could have some extra systems in place that could really make my income explode even if I kept to reselling 3-4 days a week. I think it is just a gradual thing to keep chipping away at. Regardless of what I choose to do I need to resell now to get things where I want them to be. If I made an income from making videos or something related it is unleikly I could match my current income for quite some time. I have been throwing this sleeping schedule around a lot lately it seems like. I am not beating myself up for it. Just seems really hard to stick to it lately. I am wondering how much more productive I am later in the day though vs the morning. It seems like I am really kicking ass later in the evening on getting all of my stuff that I want done. I am still going to find a balance though because I like being up a bit earlier too and it gives me some more time to read do stuff like posting here for a bit. Have been pretty slow on reading this week, but that is not too big of a deal. I usually read most on the weekend, but I am going to try to slip in some today after lunch at least. I will see how much progress I can get towards a video though. I think today will be spent on the keyword research and the thumbnail, then in the morning I will be ready to record it, then edit it. I am not going to do as heavily of a researched on this time, so should not take too long to produce I assume. I am getting quite a bit faster at most of the processes to make it. Today I am thankful for Sales doing great still! Good flow of inventory that sells fast from online Great work flow
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I need to work on a good chunk of trauma healing for me to move into higher stages. Having a lot of abuse and such growing up has caused me to carry around issues with me up to now. I am not sure to the degree which they do, but I am sure this shapes a good amount of the stuff that I do in my day to day life. I think this should be something that I work on tackling down. Same with just working towards maximizing my efforts to control any OCD or depersonalization. While these don't heavily weigh me down I feel like they are still around and hinder me from becoming much better than I am. There is so many pockets to work through it is hard to decide what to work on the most usually. But these will likely give me an enormous benefit. Going to to try crank out a lot of extra work today if I can. I did not get a large amount of items ready to list, but some good quality ones ready to list. Mostly big stereo stuff I removed from my room that I really don't need. It actually looks great and sounds great without that stuff as I switched the set up. Still getting a lot of Apple products ready to list and sell as well. I was going to treat myself to one of the ipads I got really cheap, but I think I am just going to keep turning things and keeping the money in rotation. I enjoy looking at stocks on them, but I am just going to do that while they are for sale and keep buying more to replace them. My meditation has be great yesterday. I have been doing the full 20 minutes with the 5 minutes concentration three times a day. Maintaining the posture is getting easier and it feels great. I am reaching much deeper states and feeling the shift in reality of nothingness a lot of the time doing it. It is much more of an experience before. These new technique is really helping me progress and is grounding me a lot heavier. I am glad that I started working on this a lot more. I think if I keep up at this pace I might trip again this weekend, but not sure yet. Today I am thankful for Good mood Feel determined to get stuff done Strong meditation
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You are going to have to narrow things down and commit to something eventually. You might not be ready to do that and that is okay. Once you reach a state where you are ready to master something, then it will be much easier for you to prioritize it. I have went through a period where I tried out a lot of different businesses and career options and I found it really helpful. It is nice to learn what you don't want to do and it really narrows things down. Getting stuck into a job or something out of survival is what happens to most. You are going to have to be more proactive and work towards getting out of that unless you want to be stuck there. You can possibly consider downsizing too as having something like a house payment at your age is going to make it incredibly hard to fund a business and take any pressure off from a job. Or possibly getting roommates etc.
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Working on trying to pause more before reacting to stuff, or just adding in pauses every now and then. I think if I can get this down in habit, then it would dramatically improve my life. I noticed the other day I had some benefits from doing it. I lost my tempter a bit today, but not too over the top. I have some anger that gets bottled up from just allowing others to place attacks at me and I just do nothing. I wold ideally like to continue to do nothing, but with no effect to me. I have seen a lot of improvement in this area in general though. Any anger is dramatically reduced from what it use to be especially over the years. Going cut out the online buying to resell for now. I need to focus the funds on getting the infrastructure set up to start doing movie posters and it is going to be pretty expensive. Stuff is just flying off the shelves right now. Old items that would not sell and anything new I put up just seems to sell fast. I think that I am going to be on guard with this because I think this could take a sharp decline once the free money is not being handed out as greatly. Not sure how far this will go, but I am going to be on guard. I am going to reduce the amount I planned to invest monthly and stock pile up a bit of savings to see if I can grab some deals if this persists. I think that the economy is just very heavily being propped up. Even if things were going back to normal a lot of jobs and such have been destroyed. I do not expect to people to just be blowing money. I am going to be on guard for a high amount of returns possibly to come up if they get short on cash too, because the seems to be the first thing they want their money out of. Granted I am still going to contribute to the S&P, but I am going to do smaller amounts for now and take the other 2/3 and just put it on the sidelines. I think this will be a better route to go and still get some action if things just suddenly clear up. I have still been overthinking the video thing. It is a weird position to be in I suppose. I have always made a Youtube it seems like and then hit a point just like this inevitability. I am not really sure what is best for me to do. I realize that I should just take it a step at a time and see where it goes. I am just not sure how I want to do it. I learn all of this new stuff and it completely wraps my views all the time. I am starting to dive a little bit more in the spirituality and just all my views seem to be constantly tossed in the blender. So when I want to share something it almost feels irrelevant. That and I am tempted to just make as much money as I can and move out on my own as well. If I cut this off I would make significantly more money at least in the short term. I have no real pressure to move out from here as I could likely stay as long as I needed, but the environment is fairly toxic and it would be nice to not have to adhere to anyone. I need to suck it up for now as I am not in a position to do it how I want at least. Ideally I would just buy blank property with a trailer and just grow it from there. I am going to continue to work on selling down all of my stuff and stockpiling money and just making it easier for me to move if needed. I really don't need much stuff anyway. Today I am thankful for Finding my scale Growth Reorganizing my room a bit.
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I finally put out some new work. I felt really good editing that. I honestly wish I dedicated more time to it, but I followed my ship date and just went with it. That felt really good to get back on track with it. I felt good being creative while editing that and working through too. I am going to work on following up with it and improving on it. I think that I just need to keep my energy and inspiration as high as I can. I do want to get working on the LPC a bit more too, but even then I have been reading all of the books for it. I decided to keep buying stuff online to resell. It is actually going really well. I just need to limit my time on looking into it. But I did find a new platform to start buying from and I just got an item there. My sales literally exploded this weekend. My sales are up 40% from last month and that does not even included my new sales coming from mercari, which is going really well on there! I might keep listing stuff on Depop, but not too sure yet. I am not too big on the platform, but it works. I am going to keep trying to increase revenues, so I can reinvest it as much as I can right now. I am not sure how much longer I will have the opportunity to keep selling stuff this fast, but I am going to try to move as much product as possible. Head feels like crap today. I am not sure exactly why, but I might be sick again lol. I am going to turn my attention more over to reading shortly and get some more of my routine done. I feel like my routine is sticking quite well. Some days I notice I am a bit more grounded and it is hard to get all of it accomplished though. I am going to try to stay up a bit later and wake up a little bit later to see if that boosts my productivity up a bit. I feel like I was nearly an hour in the morning from getting up so early. I think that will be really valuable over time. I will see how it goes this week. Today I am thankful for Getting video up! Feeling more positive and creative Good weather
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@heisenburger Yeah, those sound like two different industries to be working in. Of course it would be easier to make money faster with one you have more experience in now, but I would look at the long term horizon. It sounds like you enjoy both, so no harm in that. I would contemplate for awhile on how you can combined the two. It might not seem as far off as it sounds. Not to mention that most great new things are a combination of two old things.
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Average Investor replied to SageModeAustin's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance
@SageModeAustin Figure out what your strengths are. Sort out all of your options of something that will be economically viable. Then pick one things to stick out for a whole year. Put in your best efforts and see how it goes. By sitting on the sidelines it won't help you really get anywhere. I had been struggling with similar thoughts, so I hope this helps. Also, don't feel discouraged by your skill at anything. You will build it up with time. -
This was a great read and well worth the 600 pages or so. I would start with this one. Jack Bogle the founder of Vanguard has some really good books too. I just finished investment Vs. Speculation and it was good. Highlights a lot of issues with 401ks, using mutual funds, and why to choose vanguard.
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Thing seem to be going great for the reselling business. All of this time and effort is really starting to pay off. Sales are starting to boom a bit again too. It was more due to a lack of new products available for sale. It seems like a large chunk of stuff I list right now is just quickly selling. I am really going to focus in on moving harder to sell products and just moving as much inventory as I can. I am selling more of my stuff as well as I don't really need it. I feel very optimistic about getting through all of these items and expanding the business. I have to admit I do enjoy some aspects of this business. I really don't mind doing it. Obviously some of the stuff that requires more emotional labor is a bit hard, but that will be with any pursuit. I enjoy the end results of it though and having the ability to work from home. I am excited to see how this scales this year. I am really putting in the work on the days I am working and getting this thing seriously moving. The cross listing is definitely paying for itself already too. Going to try to get more on track today with youtube. I am going to finish editing the video and have it ready for upload tomorrow. Not perfect at all, but I need to move on into more projects. I still have self doubts and some stuff holding me back. I notice that I have more anxiety and such lately too. Which I have recalled in the past once I hit a block while making videos for other channels I did. I am going to power through it and keep myself motivated. I am going to start trying to do more things to lower these issues though obviously too and keep working on myself. Going to start trying to add more time into my day to make scripts and etc for future videos too. There is always major improvements I can make with myself it seems like. So much depth and knowledge about this field it seems like to explore. I think I want to focus a bit more on maximizing my nutrition better too. Granted it sucks in some aspects because of difficulty getting better foods right now. I am doing the best that I can though. I am going to look into adding reverse osmosis system into the sink water, then that water will go to the berkey filter. That should be some really clean water being triple filtered. I am going to switch to a stainless steel ice cube tray as well. Also, going to be researching more heavy metal detoxing soon. I think just tackling these things will be a good start for me as they are what I can control for now. Working on reinforcing my habits more and cleaning up clutter out of my day more. I notice with less computer time and distractions that I get a lot more done. I am going to keep working on minimizing that and trying to be more consistent with my sleeping schedule too. It seems like one day throws it off until I have to get up earlier. Today I am thankful for Great sales! Good momentum building up Improvements
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Which one can you make profitable? Which one is something that will have a long lasting challenge for you? How can you use them to give to the world?
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Definitely feel like I have the ball rolling on reselling now. I am getting through to listing a lot of items that I would not even have bothered to if I had access to the regular inventory I did. This is really helping me clear out space and get things more organized and prioritized. I am starting to get a lot more out of just my 4 or so focused hours of work on it 3 times a week. It seems I get a lot done and get good quality stuff done. I am doing more stuff to leverage the time more and more though. I am thinking sales should pick up once I get a good chunk of this inventory up. I am starting to think more and more about mastering personal development. I love reading books about it and studying it. I am starting to allow more time in my day to study it now too that I have broken my day into more chunks and removed even more clutter. I think going that route and if I keep actively working on my speaking skills, then I think I could offer something valuable to people over time. I really enjoy helping other people learn something new that can improve their life. I know that making the videos is one of the harder routes for me to go, but I think that it will pay off it one way or another. Even if it goes no where and I help some people I think that would be pretty good. I can keep reselling and doing my thing until I go into the next adventure. I think I can commit to the 10,000 hours at least to mastery in this domain. I have already been in it for awhile and I love doing it. My meditation is really going great from how it was. I got a new meditation cushion for $7 from china and it is amazing. It is just right and my legs are not falling asleep at the pace they were. This was a great investment and a great value for me. I am going to keep taking this more seriously and keep a high discipline towards it. I do actually start to look forward to it a bit more and not nearly as much resistance as I had their for awhile. Of course while in it I don't mind, but getting there was harder. I feel like I am getting fairly muscular at this point. My calf muscles are shredded. I am starting to build some decent body structure with my workout routine. It feels really good and I think it benefits me a lot with my mediation as well for core strength. I am not going to go hard core body building or anything. But this is really nice to be at this level from the work I have put in so far. Today I am thankful for Meditation cushion Large item sale to clear up space Getting money more in order
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Having many years of experience with this, I know just being in this type of work helps a lot. Eating right, mediation, and exercise should be a top priority. Work on more things that will ground you and help bring you to higher awareness. There is not medical solution or really a known cure. But a lot of acceptance and personal development has made it great. I am no longer bothered by it. It is likely paired with anxiety and if you can work on toning that down you will have a nice reduction in it.
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Average Investor replied to Pilgrimage of Self's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance
I really doubt that eBay drop shipping is going to instead be your idea of a passionate lifestyle. Do you really like the copy writing? With the amount of time and energy you have invest into a lawyer, you might as well be one until you are able to do what you want to passionately. That other stuff is going to require a lot of work and effort to even get close to the wages you would earn as a lawyer. You probably work for a year and it would take several for those other avenues to even make that much. With that said don't lock yourself down into some crap that makes you stuck there. But if you continued your living situation and lived cheap, saved, and invest that into your new projects as you go. Not to mention if you have any debts from schooling that lawyer job is your best bet of scaling that back before the interest compounds too much. I'd also like to mention that you can be a lawyer more consciously. There are plenty of people desperate for those types of services that are in a lot of distressful situations. You really can help and make a difference in the world in the mean time. As I have been self exploring more and more it makes me sad with some of the stuff I sell to people on eBay. Now I realize that the person is very happy to get their items and that is great. But it is not providing them anything that is really good to improve their life that much aside from a few things. I sell a bit of everything though. Now I can make sure they have a great experience and make my work that touches people improve their life in some way. I like tossing in a free DVD with DVD orders because it costs me about nothing and I am sure the person appreciate it. Stuff like that, but I am sure if you invested a lot of time into drop shipping you might come to this conclusion as you expand and grow. -
Working more on cutting out time wasting activities. While I could be sourcing stuff by looking online I honestly have so much inventory it is just a waste of time. I am going to stop doing it and just sell the stuff once it comes in. Working through getting up a much stuff that I can right now. Hopefully I can add closer to 50 items/lots up for sale this week and that should really boost up sales. I am going to focus in a bit more on comic selling right now as this is the first time in history the subscribers can't get new comics, so they are buying a lot more second hand. I have been sitting on over a thousands for quite awhile. No spectacular issues, so just going to sell in lots and bundles. Trying to focus in on getting more of my meditation daily. I had been slightly slacking on it time wise. I think that by just cutting out more of the crap is really going to help me streamline what I am doing. Only checking here one time per day (not that I really spend that much time on here anyway), and just anything that really keeps me idle and is not useful to me. I even enjoy reading as a pass time, so I would rather invest it into that than read crap on the internet. Granted I should still have some leisure time, but looking at buying stuff and other stuff is not useful at all to me. I want to get my efforts more streamlined. I am going to give it my best to keep producing content. I have a okay video competently done. I'll release that and go back to work on making some more new stuff that I think would be useful. I guess part of my issue is looking at someone like Leo's work and wondering how I could actually become the best in this industry. Obviously, he has over 10 years of experience in this work and I am around 3, so that is pretty significant. I want to create something new and useful I suppose. I don't want to make something that is just okay and moderate. If I am going to do something for most of my life I want to become so fucking good at it and make an impact. Not just some mediocre crap. My video skills are still pretty well in their infancy even though I have improved a lot. So that is something different. I am pretty much putting all of my attention and focus into reading books and contemplating this. Today I am thankful for Getting up early Good toast masters Gradual improvements
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Good for you! I have been kicking the idea around of making a pdf book. I would probably put it on there, but just put it for free on another avenue. I assume it was not too hard to self publish that? At least from what I have looked into.
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Plenty of places in need of more people due to this though too. Just have to go apply. Not just limited to grocery stores. Sell some stuff you own on eBay and Mercari to pool up some extra cash. You can get usps and fedex pick up from your porch.
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I feel a lot more recharged to go at this. I realize I am just letting myself get in the way of my work and I need to ship if it is perfect or not. I think I am going to switch my schedule around, so I work on youtube at the start of the week while I have the highest energy and it leaves me time in the mornings on the reselling days to add finishing touches without as much pressure to put something out. I think this will keep me on track. I am still kind of playing around with what exactly I want to do and the direction I want to take it. But I think that posting on it will be a step in the right direction. I think that if I really did train enough and explore new ideas it could make a good impact in the world. I have been spending a bit more time than I should probably buying items to flip from other sites. I am probably going to tone back on it. I got some pretty good stuff though so far. I had another ipad, but someone offered them more money and they canceled the order lol. I guess it just goes to show that the more I stick with this type of work it is just people in a race for who can get the most at any cost. If I did pursue something more creative and passionate there would be much less of this to deal with. I don't let it get to me as it is just something you see, but quite dishonorable. I realize there is more survival attached to this for most because it is fairly difficult to support yourself with a scarcity mindset in this industry and a lack of knowledge. I see that anywhere I go with it though now that I think of it. I think I am recharged enough to get things on the ball with youtube. The books I have been reading have been killer for helping me. I am almost pacing about 6 books a month now! Crazy to think that I am reading that much now, but that is becoming fairly easy to do and I love doing it. I love learning new stuff and applying it. I feel like there is so much good stuff that I can take out of a book and apply it immediately. This is much better than anything school had ever offered me for sure and I enjoy it. I am going to see really where it lands this month, but I read a 250ish page book in two days this weekend and if I really had read more I could have got more in. But that was just in two days. Granted I don't always have a lot of extra time to read with other habits and business stuff on weekdays. Although, things would be a bit better now if I reset my sleeping schedule. Today I am thankful for New leo video Run Feeling good and more optimistic.
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I recorded again, but was not really happy with it. I realize that I am in a bit of a dip with doing this and I can make it through it. I realize that I am being too perfectionist with the amount of time I can allocate to it. I am still not sure what route I want to take it and how I want to do it. But I think I should commit to at least my year of doing it. On the downside I suppose is the fact I could make a lot more money dedicating those days to reselling. I am not sure fully where I want to go, or what I love. I like reselling still. It does not bother me to do it even though their is tasks with it I don't enjoy. I am still able to move through it and do it. I am sure if I dropped it and applied full effort into something I could get it off the ground. I think I am only so far away from making the reselling mostly passive though, so obviously not time to throw in the towel. That and the mixed feelings about what I want to do. I had some big backlash from the trip I think. It definitely took a toll on me for a bit, but it has been well worth it for me to explore more into my views and how I see the world and what I want to do in this world. I started sourcing stuff online to resell by literally just buying stuff other sellers sell too cheap. It started with me just looking for something for myself and I found a cool niche for myself to enter. It is pretty fun and not too time consuming like it would be driving somewhere to get inventory. I found one item that should make me about $60 profit after fees and shipping, so that is pretty significant. I am sure I could really get better at this and start analyzing more markets that I have an expertise in and make some extra money off other sellers. Pretty interesting and something I considered before, but was not sure I could make much money it until now. I am just going to do it casually since I have quite a bit of inventory. This is just stuff that is easy to relist and make some extra profits on. The items in particular I am getting are in high demand anyway and would do well with or without the pandemic. Taking tomorrow fully off from electronics and going to read. I did do a fair chunk of reading today. I seem to been recovering a lot from the backlash I was having. That really helped me question what I am doing. I am going to explore it more and read some more books on it. There is a lot of stuff to do in the world and I do want to be the best at something I love. It will take some time for me to fully realize what I want. I suppose even with the Youtube it was positioned to allow me to explore. I realized that I love working in photoshop and it has helped me be more creative. I have definitely picked up a lot better speaking skills with toastmasters and gained a lot just pursuing this so far. I imagine the rewards would be much much higher if I did dive really deep I guess I am just not sure where to dive at. Today I am thankful for Feeling a lot better Finding new sourcing online Opening my mind up more
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Average Investor replied to EntheogenTruthSeeker's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance
A lot of research, passion, and a big vision. That and being able to stick it out, when times get tough and no one is watching. Step one would be to start making the content and posting it right away. -
Average Investor replied to SageModeAustin's topic in Life Purpose, Career, Entrepreneurship, Finance
It is good to have a lot of experience with different adventures. Much more risky to go all in on something without really knowing what else there is. I have found with myself trying to build a long term vision of what I want my life to be like is helpful. Find out what you want most in life and what fuels you the most. I have done a lot of different businesses myself and surely I probably would be quite well of if I just stuck to one thing. But in each one I evolved to a new level of development and learned more about myself and the world. Those experiences have been very valuable. I would feel worthless if my life was committed to my first business I had started and I continued that path. Not to mention I have a lot of different skills in various areas. But I do intend to master something I love. -
If something has a high cost or a greater sacrifice it is generally going to yield a much higher reward. High school was an absolute waste of my time. The stuff they taught to me was mostly garbage and most of the teachers were just someone who picked a safe job and liked the steady paycheck. You need to go explore some more options and find what you really love. Practice on some things. Try doing some toast masters to feel out what it could actually feel like. A college education is pretty expensive, but even more expensive is spending a life time doing something you don't enjoy. I would weigh your risks out and see what is worth it to you.